Teghan Vogt: The Tragedy Of The Holocaust

The Holocaust was a horrific time in history that has continued to impact the world still today. During the years between 1933 and 1945, an estimated six million Jews and others were executed by Hitler and the Nazis. Some people during this time chose to handle the situation differently; some were completely destroyed and others became stronger due to trial and error of everyday experiences.

Teghan Vogt: Tragedy is defined as an event causing extreme suffering, destruction, and distress which does not even begin to describe what the Jews and those who suffered through the Holocaust experienced. Treated like animals, completely inhumane, it is not difficult to believe that some of the victims of these concentration camps, and even those that
Then others, not so fortunate, soon lose that willpower and find themselves in a deeper tenebrous place than they were before. In reality, life gives you two choices; fight or flight. Nearly every situation people find themselves in, large or not, we are forced - as one or as many - to make a verdict. Some leading to better fallouts than others, giving others more ambition, and revoking it from others. Between the two, forgetting about the immense amount of deviations, they have slight a bit more similarities.than most people would give credit to. For example, they both involve decisions, such as that of the people during the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel. He had to make many decisions while he was in the camps - as did many other Jewish-inmates, in which initially seemed like decent selections, yet in the end, still pronounced that he was but a “corpse in the mirror staring back at himself” (Wiesel 115). The biggest lesson to learn during a life is that life is either going to make you, or it’s going to break you. Everyday choices and behaviors play a vast aspect in the future of people's’ lives. For example, an additional survivor of the Holocaust was a man named Viktor Frankl. He stated many a time that there had been always a reason for rationalism, even in the worst of bearings. As once said by Frankl himself, “when we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves” (Frankl). This shows that there can be a harmony between the two, and that no choice is indefinitely suitable or right. That the human instinct to withstand may be incredibly powerful, but the conditions and footing around it may sway a person's decision