Reflection 15

I was amazed how some people couldn’t believe that such a drastic event happened, not only that they couldn’t believe it, which is an understatement, but that they were in denial that it ever happened. In eight grade I grew an obsession on the Holocaust it was a fixation that I had to know what happened, whether your survived the concentration camps or didn’t I wanted to know their story. Their stories amazed me; I was heartbroken and overwhelmed just reading the experiences that they went through. I never doubted anything they said, I was just amazed how far they made it, and some how hard they struggled to stay alive. This one book I read told the story of a man who wasn’t exactly the strongest worker over their so they didn’t work him to death, but pretty close to it. They were moving from concentration camps to concentration camp in winter time, he was lucky just to have pants, or even a shirt on. As they were walking to the next concentration camp he collapsed feared that he couldn’t go on anymore, the guard told him that if he stayed there he would die. As fear was rushed into him, he had no choice but to move on. He was one of the lucky survivors who made it out alive, though later in life he learned that when he was all set to give up on that winter day, two days later he would have been saved and no longer had to be part of the concentration camps. Reading these stories I never knew how people where in such denial about certain situations. But now I’ve learned to look at things through other people’s point of view. Just because something is going on in the world, doesn’t make you realize why it is going on or maybe it doesn’t register that it really did happen, and it wasn’t just a rumor. I also believe that if you weren’t introduced about it, or it wasn’t talked about around you then, it wasn’t true. A similar event is the KKK, the KKK was said to be provoked during early times, and we believe that it has come to an end because we don’t hear about it. Though up north, it isn’t that they just hear about it, but they also witness parades, and African American cops fear for their lives and refuse certain shifts because of how strong the KKK is up there. I believe that people don’t believe things happen, because they were never taught certain events, and such disbelief can also come from traditions, maybe if they believe that none of it happens, and then they can’t install hate and fear into that generation.