When we took the Holocaust pre-test on Wednesday and watched the movie on Thursday it was just a memory refresher. When I was in the eighth grade we read the book Night by Elie Wiesel and watched the movie of him going back to Auschwitz. We even had a Holocaust survivor come to our school to talk to us. The pre-test just helped me remember everything I learned back then. I learned when American soldiers came to the concentration camps they did not find people they found either walking or dead skeletons that looked like people. Watching the movie that showed the actual pictures gave me a real-life image of those descriptions. Some of the pictures were very hard to look at. I just kept thinking to myself how could anybody stand to look at these images. The Nazi soldiers that worked at these camps and had to look at these people every day. The sight of these poor people just saddened me and they looked exactly like how they were described. What also got to me was the burning of innocent babies and children. How could those soldiers who might have had families even do this?
I am actually looking foward to reading Night again. I love the way he went into detail about his expiriences. That was very brave of him to do so. It was really sad when he talked about losing his father. That was literally the only person he had left. He explains everything he saw and his entire journey. Night is a book I would definately read again.
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