Through numerous forms of writing, we accompanied the Jews in their terrible conditions, felt their feelings, and learned more about the Holocaust. Literature helps us honor and commemorate the victims of the Holocaust by …show more content…
Many people went through a time where they believed their entire world was deteriorating. The Holocaust is a warning from the past, it is an example of how small trends can become something far more threatening. The word Holocaust is word of Greek origin meaning “ sacrifice by fire”. As one can see living through this time era was extremely brutal and the victims should be remembered and honored. Literature helped us spark great finding about the Holocaust, “ The 6,000 recovered documents told a story of a family torn apart by war and anti-Semitism” (Basu). 6,000 forms of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments. During the harsh times in the Holocaust thousands of Jews were kept in small spaces called ghettos. Ghettos were nightmares for all. The Jews would smuggle things like food and necessities to these ghettos, but one very significant thing they took was information. Survivors from ghettos state that information was critical to people who were cut off from the rest of the world (Byers). These newspapers and letters were a form of evidence for all those Jews who had everything stripped away from them. Jews and those in hiding would try to get out as much evidence as possible. Bloeme Eden had just been released from hiding, the first thing she decided to do was write a postcard to her family (Emden,Prins ). Now thanks to the writing of Jews before us, the fact that the Holocaust …show more content…
Literature can help us honor the victims of the Holocaust by observing the same period of history though different points of view. Cold blooded executions, large massacres, and death camps were all due to the Holocaust. Hitler ran it all and the rest were silenced with pure fear, however many lives were spared thanks to the heroes who risked their lives. These people knew the Nazis regime was wrong and they refused to be brainwashed. Nicholas Wilton was a courageous man who risked everything to save the Jews from their tragic death. He survived and did many interviews he talks about going out to the camps where the people had been displaced (Wilton). Through this short response, one can already see the ample amount of bravery this man had. He saved 669 children. Every Jew went through some sort of suffering because of this dark time. Anne Frank wrote in her diary that things went well for the Jews in nineteen forty then the war came and things got very bad for the Jews (Goodrich, Hackett). This may be another reason Hitler was able to convince the jealous Germans to repel those who were different. Literature also helps us see that the Holocaust affected everyone, even those living after it. Mary Helen Dirkx was teen who grew up when the Nuremberg Trails were happening. As any normal teen she was always looking for an adventure. Mary would explore abandoned buildings then one day she realized something. She wrote