Response to Holocaust Video

Haiden Bowman

Mr. Neuburger

COMP 101-101

20 March 2013

Response

                While watching the film I was simply amazed by all the gruesome scenes filmed. It upset my stomach and made me feel like I was going to vomit. The descriptiveness of the video was great. I didn’t like the video at all, but I believe seeing the bodies laying on the side of the street is what interested me the most. I don’t mean it in a weird way, but I wondered why. That wasn’t the only scene that was disturbing to me.

                I found that the scene where the German’s were sending bodies down a slide into a pit was the most alarming. I know that they didn’t have any respect for them whatsoever but that was nothing but disgusting. The children throughout the movie that were shown made me want to cry not only because they were so tiny but because there are children in the world today that look like that too from starvation.

                The whole video was a great clip for the eye to see and the heart to feel. It makes younger generations, like me, realize the impact that the Holocaust really had on the people from that time era. Before is saw this and started learning about the Holocaust I just thought it was similar to a terrible war, where people died, and that was the end. Ignorant is what you can call me when it comes to this, but I have learned so much more.

                I didn’t like how the women were mistreated and thrown around like they were nothing. I don’t like that they were whipped when they wouldn’t move and I hated seeing children begging for food. The children in the video are what truly touched my heart because they were so young and there was nothing they could do. They didn’t have family or anything. I do understand that it was difficult for even adults, but I really disliked the fact that they filmed innocent children in the conditions that they were in.

                I’m thankful that the Holocaust is over for the people who lived in that time’s sake, for everyone around me and my own. It’s ridiculous how one can get away with something so terrible. I will probably never watch this film again, but I will always remember it.