The
“Give me your children; Voices from the Lodz Ghetto” video made me realize how
real and personal these stories are. The awareness that these children had made
me feel compassion, hearing how they felt and how little they could do about it
makes me feel extremely lucky to have the life I have. If you think about some
of the facts that these people are giving its horrifying, having 160,000 people
forced into 1.5 miles of space is inhumane. Some children were writing about
how little food they receive, bread every eighth day, and the ration once a
month, and a small amount of soup. People today complain about being hungry
after not eating a full meal for 5 hours, eating this amount of food is equivalent to
having a thin slice of bread every 11 hours. To hear that the 9 year girl would do anything
to survive the war truly breaks my heart, for her to know that she’s in this
positions just because she is Jewish. When I heard that when people were forced
to wear these yellow Stars of David, confused me because if you just harmed
when wearing it why wouldn’t people take it off or just not wear it in the
beginning?
I noticed that German's
confiscated Jews' valuables and oppressed their labor. This reminds of
Schindler's List when Schindler realizes he can use Jews to do his work and not
have to pay them. He then comes to realize he should be saving the Jews
with this power. This makes me wonder if he was the only one, as this was
based on a true story, and how many other Nazi businessmen used Jews and then
ended up trying to save them? Overall watching this video has given me
the awareness and the reality of these children’s stories, and has made me
compassionate. Also the perservance of these children has astounded me, with
the minimal amounts of food and what they had to face daily, amazes me that
they never gave up.
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