Reflection On The Book Night
The Holocaust was a horrific time for many people during World War II. During the Holocaust, Jewish people were sent to concentration camps and forced into hard labor and inevitable death. Hitler and the Nazis were determined to wipe out all the Jewish people, and anyone else that opposed him. This time wasn’t just rough for the Jewish people. People all around the world were living in fear, Germany being in the middle of the war lived in the most fear. Everyday life in Germany was greatly altered due to all the fear that were engraved in German people’s brain. During the Holocaust nobody was safe, not the Jews, the Germans, or anyone else in the world. The Aryan race was Hitler’s master race, the people he believed to be above all others.
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Night was an actual person’s experience at the concentration camps, which is why I probably felt like I understood and learned more. The first thing that I learned was about how cruel the Nazis were. The Nazis made sure that concentration camps weren’t talked about so that it would be easier to get all the Jews there. The Nazis would invade towns and gain people’s trust, then they would use the trust against them which would eventually lead them to their death. Before I read Night, I knew that the Nazis were ruthless and killed people when and however they wanted to. What didn’t know, and what I learned, was that they put hundreds of people in gas chambers to slowly die. I didn’t know that they would take the people that didn’t go into the gas chambers to a fire to be burned to death. Another thing that I learned is that despite everything that was happening to the Jews, they still kept their family, or what was left of their family close. These people who were being burned, starved, and beaten, remained strong, some even optimistic. Family was the only important thing in the lives of the Jewish people at the camps. It wasn’t just the Jewish people who kept their family close, it was all the other German’s that could be at risk of falling victims to the Nazis. Family was possibly the only thing that really mattered through everything horrible
Night was an actual person’s experience at the concentration camps, which is why I probably felt like I understood and learned more. The first thing that I learned was about how cruel the Nazis were. The Nazis made sure that concentration camps weren’t talked about so that it would be easier to get all the Jews there. The Nazis would invade towns and gain people’s trust, then they would use the trust against them which would eventually lead them to their death. Before I read Night, I knew that the Nazis were ruthless and killed people when and however they wanted to. What didn’t know, and what I learned, was that they put hundreds of people in gas chambers to slowly die. I didn’t know that they would take the people that didn’t go into the gas chambers to a fire to be burned to death. Another thing that I learned is that despite everything that was happening to the Jews, they still kept their family, or what was left of their family close. These people who were being burned, starved, and beaten, remained strong, some even optimistic. Family was the only important thing in the lives of the Jewish people at the camps. It wasn’t just the Jewish people who kept their family close, it was all the other German’s that could be at risk of falling victims to the Nazis. Family was possibly the only thing that really mattered through everything horrible