“I wished I had a suicide pill or something, because I knew if they tortured me, I’d probably break down and tell them everything.” - Halina. Page 30 of Escaping Into the Night
When I read this quote, what runs through my mind is WHY the Jews? They didn't do anything wrong, and it’s impossible to deserve something like this, when they did nothing wrong. I’m not saying that it would've been alright to take away some other type of religion or races rights, I just want to know like why did they kill just the Jews and made them feel worthless. This shows that Hitler’s Nazi soldiers and everyone else that worked for him, did brutal stuff to the Jews. Because who would rather choose to die over than to just be tortured?
I think that mostly everyone at the Holocaust felt the exact same way as Halina. But with Halina, she’d rather just want to take a pill just so she can die right there and then. Instead of having the Nazis’ torturing her and killing her. That's pretty bad. It’s a shame knowing that Hitler treated them like they were just unworthy to live.
So I would never want to be tortured but I also can't see just giving up either. There's a lot of reasons for why the Jews got picked on in Germany and other nations before World War II. Those reasons though, like all prejudice, just don't make sense. I like how your team posted that video for Defiance. I still haven't seen that movie.
ReplyDeleteChristian, its hard to imagine being in that situation and what horrors the Jews had to endure and suffer through. Fortunately we can only read about it in books, so its hard for us to experience what these people went through. Id imagine the pain that these people experienced was far beyond what you and I could ever feel, and knowing that she would rather die than to be tortured again is understandable. This in light of the fact that even if she told them what they wanted to know, they would kill her anyway. At this point, the hope of surviving is very slim, and hopelessness would be the only feeling that would remain. Good luck with the rest of project - Eric
ReplyDeleteI would love to know that too. But there's many reasons why they did, they didn't juts picked them just because. There's always a reason for everything in this world, people just won't do it because they want too. We can only know what they went through in books, movies, the web. We will never know exactly what kind of torture they went through, only what we thought the torture they went through. The Jews were just like any other people, but unfortunately they were the ones who had to go through all the pain. I know the fact of being torture is horrible, but why give up? It's great knowing you didn't give up on something, if she dies she'll have that in mind.
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