Blog Post #4- Jared

For the time that I have been studying the Holocaust, it has been a good learning experience. I have learned of the great inhumane actions of the Nazis and the Jews uprising and escaping. In the book Night I learned what it was like in a concentration camp. I learned what the inhumane acts of the Nazis were and what they did towards the Jewish people. The things that the Nazis did are unimaginable. They would burn people alive and kill them in gas chambers. In the book, Elie says that they would burn babies in a pit or use them as target practice. They would also cram 80 to 100 people in a tiny box car without food or water for a long time. Towards the end of the war, Nazi officers forced prisisnoers to run for 3 months in snow, and if they didn't keep the pace they would get shot. This matters because over 6 million Jews died in the holocaust and over 11 million people died in the war. Over half of the jews in all of Europe died. In Elie Wiesel's Nobel acceptance speech, he says that he wonders if he even has the right to speak on behalf of the multitudes that have perished. I think he does have the right to speak since he is spreading their story and he is teaching us. If no one spoke about it, no one would ever know about it so I think he does have the right. When we were at the Holocaust Museum there was this pile of shoes. The pile of shoes probably had thousands and thousand of shoes and those shoes were of the people that died. And that was only from one concentration camp. There were so many more concentration camps where people have died and those shoes were just from one. That shows how many people really died. This connects with my life today because my grandpa is Jewish and some of his family members died in theHolocaust. Having learned about how the Holocaust connects to my family, it makes me understand my famly better.

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  1. Jameson M.November 2, 2019 at 9:01 AM

    I like your paragraph, but i think the word choice of "great" inhuman actions of the Naziz and the Jews is not the best word choice because it could offend some people. And I think your choice of including some of your personal family in the holocaust made it hit a lot harder in your paragraph

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    1. AnonymousNovember 3, 2019 at 1:29 PM

      He is not using great in a positive way.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 3, 2019 at 1:37 PM

    Be sure to read over your work next time to ensure there are no spelling or grammar mistakes.
    Make sure to avoid repetition as well.

    You touch on a lot of interesting things in this post but the topic jumps all over the place. Next time in your writing, try to choose a theme to focus on and determine specific examples from there.

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