Yad Vashem: Film Analysis

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I choose to listen to a survivors testimony and write about that off of Yad VaShem. I listened to Norman Salsitz’s interview and the very first thing he talked about was witnessing his fathers death as a child. The thing that shocked me is that even though his father was killed he got his strength from his words right before he was killed saying “revenge, revenge!” Instead of giving up, like I would have after losing a parent, he wanted to live to tell the story to get his fathers revenge. Another aspect to Norman’s story that I found ‘different’ was that immediately after the war he started talking about it and his experience. From the documentary that we watched in class of Fred and Menachem and from our guest speakers, a lot people choose

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