Entombed -(Reflection 15)

The Holocaust was a terrible situation that happened to the Jews at the hands of the Nazi regime. Putting humans in concentration camps and making them live in ghettos and branding them with marks only to use them as scapegoats from their own problems. Sadly, the Jews were not the only victims of the Holocaust. Gypsies, homosexuals, Soviet prisoners, as well as mentally and physically disabled persons were also annihilated. There were four major killing centers where victims were killed almost immediately after their arrival by gassing. They were loaded into gas chambers and were killed that way. Treblinka was physically the largest killing center of the four. The people who claim to not believe that the Holocaust happened are too ignorant and I believe they are simply blinded by their own cruelty and stupidity. With so much evidence, how could one deny such a horrific event. Though the slaying of Africans didn’t have as much killings events like these in history shouldn’t be denied. There are witnesses and key role players who admitted being a part of this. Would so many people lie about the same thing? Why would so many people have the same story? I feel that these people should really try to open their minds about the Holocaust. Alive today there are some people who have written books about their life during the Holocaust so I think it is crazy and ignorant that there are still some people who believe that the Holocaust didn’t take place. When I was in middle school I had a teacher, Kathleen Serio, who assigned for everyone in class to read a book called “Entombed” which was about Bernard Mayer and forty five other Jews who lived underground and were lucky enough to survive the Holocaust. They were saved by a non-Jew who was nice enough to let them in his home. The reality in the life story of Bernard Mayer that was depicted in his autobiography lead the reader to feel as though they were living during the Holocaust themselves. At least that was how it made me feel. I felt all of the raw emotions of pain and hurt as the journey of life underground took place for Bernard. With the life story of a man who was able to write and share his story that contained the gruesome details of the Holocaust, it shakes me to believe that there are still some people who believe that the Holocaust isn’t real. Hopefully they are able to get the chance to read and to educate themselves with our history.
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