I thought that we brought up some really interesting topics about Night in class, but I was really interested to hear more. I really liked hearing your insight about how you guys thought you would have fared at Auschwitz. I know that I would not have survived very long. Seeing my family taken away from me would be so incredibly hard for me, that I would probably lose any will to live. Without my family, I wouldn't have anything to live for, and in a place like Auschwitz, one will die unless they have a clear goal to keep them going. What about you guys?
That ties in to another conversation we had: Which would be the worst: separation from family, lack of comfort, seeing death every day, or endless brutality/beatings? A lot of people were split between separation from family and seeing death every day. I was interested to hear what more people thought about it. I know that separation from family would be the worst for me, as I could cope with the other issues as long as I had a family to comfort me and to live for. However, being entirely alone in such a scary place would be far worse for me than seeing strangers die: I think I would become numb/indifferent to the death and the beatings after a period of time. What do you guys think???
-Ellie
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I definitely agree with you. If I had seen my family taken away from me, I don’t think I could handle it. Plus, since I am an only child, if my mom and dad were gone, I would have no one, and then would suck! It is a scary thing to think about! I mean having one kind of people, Jews in this case, trying to be wiped off the earth because some guy doesn’t like them…that’s crazy! I am sure that if we were faced with that terror, we could find something with in us to live, but right now, lets try not to think about scary stuff like that!
<3 dayna
I agree with you because you could take the beatings and sight of death as long as you had your family to be with when it was all over. Being with my family would give me the will to live and not give up. Although constant beating would take its toll after a while, i still believe that being with my family would take my mind off of it.
I would have to say I agree with both of you. At first the beatings and hunger would cause many problems but none as hard to deal with then the sight of seeing your family die or leave you knowing you will never see them again. They are the people you have loved and been with your entire life and suddenly having them no longer in sight would cause me to break down and feel no real point in living. If you were to survive the Holocaust but have no one to talk to and just be all alone, what would be the point in being there. Your just as dead without your family than if you were to be shot.
~Q
Well again, i agree with all of you. Going through this horrible expierence would not be the same if i didnt have my family with me. It dosnt even need to be my whole family just as long as i have someone that i love and trust there with me i would fight and go on forever. The thought or sight of beating and death wouldnt really bother me just as long as its not me. that sounds really selfish but i think thats what everyone thinks. also if a family member was with me it would make the expierence even better.
-emily
I agree also with the family. Because if you were taken away from your family then not only would you not have them with you anymore, but you would also have that constant worry and thought in your head "what has happened to them?". Seeing all the horriable things happen to strangers day after day would just lead you to the assumption that these kind of things proablly happened to your family which would be even woarse.
-Melissa
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