Yesterday you watched an interview that Oprah did with Nobel Peace Prize winner. Please reflect on the interview. What did you learn? How did this make you feel? What images stood out and why? What words do you think will stick with you for a long time? How did this interview affect you as a person. Please respond thoughtfully. Remember to edit your writing!
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slyfox
6/1/2012 04:31:40 am
I felt sad seeing the places that people were killed and the fact that they didn’t even know that it was about to happen at times they were just told that they were getting a shower. The thing is that they tried to cover it up they tried to destroy the gas chambers before that Americans and the Russians cam so they would not get in trouble. A image that I will remember is the hair the fact that they shaved peoples heads and shipped there hair to German to make cloths is just inhuman
slyfox
6/1/2012 04:48:07 am
another powerful thing is that there were 3 to 4 jews to a bunk and that the Nazis took people in the middle of the night and killed them or they died from starvation or disease. one question i had when i was waiting the movie is what do they do the the cremated bodies and where do they dig the ditches to put the jews in.?
The Guy in Orange
6/1/2012 04:35:24 am
The interview was very powerful and I found that Elie was very brave and it took a lot of courage to not only survive the worlds largest graveyard, but also come back multiple times. When he said it was the world's largest recorded graveyard, I thought about it and would have said the same thing while I was there. I say that because in that camp at the time almost everyone was pretty much dead anyways.
Katniss
6/1/2012 04:35:36 am
When Elie Wiesel talked about how all of the dead babies could've cured cancer, cured AIDS or could've received a Nobel Peace Prize, I said to myself wow... because if those children and babies were alive they could've changed the world and make the world a better place to live.
Katniss
6/1/2012 04:43:12 am
-Added on to my response
Ethan
6/1/2012 04:36:47 am
I felt offal about what happened it was really breath taking to watch it. I didn't know that they had to sleep in a bunker with three people that must of bean hard to sleep. I still remember the image that was the hair it was allot of hair and they make it into clothes disgusting.
Dan
6/1/2012 04:38:49 am
I learned that there could have been a lot of famous or good people out of all of the jews that were killed. It made me feel mad and also a bit weird because were all humans and its not their fault for being jewish. There are two images that will stick with me and they are the huge mass-grave and the clip of the men that couldn't have weighed more then 80 pounds walking around mindlessly. This will make me try to resolve any of my problems that I have, just because Hitler didn't like jews doesn't mean you can just go off and kill 6,000,000 of them let alone 1.
JOHN
6/1/2012 04:39:53 am
By watching Oprah interview with Elie Wiesel I had a feeling mad, sad.
Dakota
6/1/2012 04:40:06 am
The interview was very powerful that it had a huge impact on me. When I saw that video it said at the beginning ''Death Factory''. That devastated me. I felt sad because millions of innocent jewish people died for being jewish. The picture of the jews burning other jews was also very devastating because their forced by the Germans (The SS) to work for them or die.
michael
6/1/2012 04:41:11 am
when they saw all the hair there it is so sad that they shaved every one and then sold there hair. i cant emagen having to shave peoples heads and then go and sell it to other people.
Dakota
6/1/2012 04:46:09 am
Did you not read the top paragraph because it says to edit your writing and you spelt stuff wrong and no capitals
Blackhawk86580
6/1/2012 04:44:33 am
I don’t think any words could describe how I felt while watching the show, except the word speechless... The made an impact on me by: having actually seen images of what Jews looked like being deprived of food and rights. It was a big difference for me since reading makes you "imagine" images rather than seeing what it actually looked like in real life. The images that will stick are the ones showing the skinniness of the Jews. I can even imagine anything being THAT skinny. Some words that will stick to me are: death factory, Arbeit Macht Frei, smell of burning flesh and, they didn't know death was coming. After watching the show it made me stop and think; what did the Nazis accomplish afterwards... nothing.
Rhett
6/1/2012 04:44:58 am
The Oprah and Elie Wiesel surprised me on how much description was given.
Haley
6/1/2012 04:45:08 am
This interview made me feel many things. I was upset, sad, disturbed and kind of angry. Something that impacted me was the peep holes put all around the outside of the gas chambers so the Nazis could watch the jews suffocate. I was disgusted that the german would watch this, like a movie on a Jewish families TV that most likely stole from them. They watched the die like an on going horror film. Just to think someone could enjoy watching a mother hug her child for the last time as people were frantically gasping for air. An image that will stay with me is those babies on a rack about to be put into the crematorium. Like Elie Wiesel said "One of these kids could of known the cure for cancer, or aids." to think that the children could have changed the world is crazy but we will never know.
Riley
6/1/2012 04:45:34 am
When I saw this video, It made me think how terrible the German Nazis really were. The fact that they would take a group of maybe 1000 or more people and fill up gas chambers when they said to the Jews they were only going to "take a shower" then drop gas in from above and make them "drown" in the gas. The Nazis would stand outside of the chambers and watch, sometimes laugh at the Jews who would claw at the wall or glass trying to get some kind of air. They would scratch and claw until they had no more fingernails or were dead. Then they would send more Jews in the chamber to clean up the bodies and throw their own friends and family into a pit of fire. It made me angry that they would take all of the Jews's hair, and dead ones and sell them to Germans to make wool. They would not respect the dead at all. The Nazis would just sell the dead Jews's hair and sell them. They do not care who they kill, just how many they killed. As Elie Wiesel said, the chambers were factories of death, manufacturing death. Nazis were the workers trying to fulfill there quota of deaths. They even killed babies. They didn't know if those babies may solve world hunger, find a cure for Cancer, or do something hat changed the world. As Elie also said, "Every shoe has a life. Every shoe tells its own story." These children's shoes would never tell a story. They hadn't lived long enough to tell a story of their life. If it did the story would be screaming followed by death. This made me angry that the Nazis would do such a thing and not care at all. Not give any respect to anyone except themselves.
Breanna
6/1/2012 04:45:50 am
An image that will stick to me for a long time would be when the Jews were separated in two different groups. One group could live for at least 6 more weeks, and the other group was convinced that they were going to take a shower so they striped down there clothes and SS soldiers shoved them in too gas chamber not knowing what was happening. This interview made a big in packed on me because just being in Elie Wiesle position when all of that happened must of been horrible, just seeing a bunch of people of your own kind being shot down in at least 2 seconds.The Jew children that were killed could of changed the world they lived in, they could of changed the lives of many people but they never had a chance too.
Ryan
6/1/2012 04:47:03 am
As I was watching this video yesterday, I felt very devastated because it sad that when the war was going on, millions, and millions of people were dying because of the gender and race. The Germans hated jews so they thought it would be ok if they killed the jews to take of their land. Watching this film also upset me with all the images that I saw. Things like all the hair laying in a room to be sold and used to make for cloths. The piles, and piles or hair in rooms, was so disgusting and sad at the same time. Baby's all killed and lined up, watching plenty of jews being killed with the gas chamber, and jews having to be naked, standing on the edge of a ditch and then get shot, jews being burned and lying in a fire put of all dead body's,are all things that made an impact on me and how my life is now. Things like the death factory, and concentration camp, made me think really well about the things that the jews have to do and go. I really hope that there will never be a World War IV. Please don't let this happen again, keep this world continuing with peace. 6/1/2012 04:47:38 am
When I watched the Oprah and Elie Wiesel video about the camps where the Jews stayed and died, I felt disturbed, disgusted and amazed. I am pretty sure you know why I am disturbed and disgusted. But if you don't know why it's because the Jews were poisoned or infected, shot, starved and burned to death. Also the babies were lined up then killed. Finally I was amazed because Hitler did all this destruction just because he hated the Jews and he thought that the Jews were ruining Germany. So he tried to eliminate the Jewish race.
Minny Mouse
6/1/2012 04:48:15 am
While watching this video, I learned a lot about what it was really like to live in the camps. Before I watched the video, the holocaust kind of felt fake or unreal. After I had watched the video it became so much more realistic. Even now, it is still hard to believe that those horrible events really did occur. It is heart-breaking to know that some of those young infants could have made a huge change in the world, if they had been given the chance to live. The image that stuck in my head was all the hair and belongings from the jews, stripped away from them, never to be returned. The words "Death Factory", "Angel of Death" and "Gas Chambers" will stay with me forever. The interview with Elie Wiesel will stay in my mind for a long time, but the people who lost there lives in the holocaust will stay in my heart for eternity.
Jayda
6/1/2012 04:48:24 am
I don't even know how i felt, i felt sad, frustrated, confused, devastated, scared. I don't know. I also felt like i was with the millions of people, suffering with them. It was like a nightmare... but it wasn't, it was reality.
DJCARAMEL
6/1/2012 04:48:33 am
The image that shocked me the most was when the SS officers where telling them that the Jews where having a shower but when they got into the chamber they'd be gassed. After they were gassed the were sent to a crematory were they we burnt in a oven. How un human do have to be to burn some one you might know. It also shocked me when the Jews were getting there heads shaved and was sent to factories to things like sponges or rags.
Eric :3
6/1/2012 04:50:30 am
The hair of all these Jews all shaved off, how disrespectful. Even though the Germans hate the Jews at least show them some respect for all you've done to them. Murdered millions of innocent people their hair was probably the only thing they had, at least they thought so, the next hour their hair is gone and cloths too and then put straight to work. Thinking of this just makes my body fill with frustration. Doing this isn't proper, it isn't reality is probably what they thought. That's what I thought too, but it was at least they had their dignity, to the end of times, or their lives. This way of murder is so fake, but so real. The Jews were told the gas chambers were showers but the germans told a big lie, as soon as they get in a chemical gas named Zyklon B (Hydrogen Cyanide) filled the room, in at least 15 minutes the air if filled with the gasses and it feels like you were suffocating under water. This is not the way to live, if you cannot work, you die. If you are not healthy you die, if you do not agree, you die. Either way these Jewish men and women had no choice. But to die until hope uncovers itself. From What I Think About All Of This Madness In The Holocaust. -Eric
Livee
6/1/2012 04:51:10 am
When I watched this interview I was astonished and moved. There were so many powerful things that hit me like a ton of bricks. Death was considered the norm. I couldn't imagine thinking that mass murder was normal and it was just another thing in my day. When Elie said that he was living in a death factory it almost made me cry. Factories are meant to be efficient, they were trying to kill off as many jews as possible in one period of time. I think the worst part of the gas chambers is knowing that there was a peep hole to watch, men were watching people suffocate as they tried to claw the walls to get out, mothers trying to keep their babies as safe as possible. One word, sadistic. For those of you who don't know what that means it means that you enjoyed the death. How could a human being enjoy watching death like it was a movie? When Elie showed Oprah the shoes and said that these babies and children could have found the cure to Cancer or AIDS it really hit me, the Nazis didn't just kill in Europe in the 1940s they are still killing people all over the world today. He is ruining peoples lives even when he is in the ground. My auntie had cancer, luckily she beat it, but I couldn't imagine life without her. This part really hits close to home with me. Another part that will stick with me is when the saw the wall where the SS men executed the jews one at a time, Elie said this was the best way to die because you died with dignity. You were not just a number but you died a human with a name. I can imagine the blood stained snow, people starving to death, and when they made jews burn the bodies of other jews I can imagine one of them finding a family member or friend. Another part that made me sad was when they went into the barrack. Oprah thought that there was one to a bunk, but no. There was 3-4 squished on a little bunk that had no mattress just some straw, and it was common to find someone dead beside you in the morning. Death is not a game. Human lives are not toys. These are the things that the Nazis didn't understand.
Cupcake
6/1/2012 04:51:51 am
I felt sad because the pictures and his description was sad. He lived like 5 years of his life in this horror house and yet he can live on. That made me sad and not to mention that his family was killed and he has nothing lift of them but his memories. I also felt mad. The pictures of the walking dead and the piles of ashes and detached body parts mad me made because those people had no respect paid to them they were just shot or gassed then thrown it to the fire with the rest of there race. Those pictures and the little videos made shivers run up and down my spine because of the fact that the Jews were skin ad bones. One thing that really hit me or impact was the fact that this did happen and it is not just a stories being told. Millions were killed and this camp still stands to this very day. Plus now I believe that the sprits of the Jews still walk the grounds like they are trapped. One of the images that I will always be able to picture is the little clip of the walking dead and how skinny and pale they were, plus how sick and lifeless they looked. Words that stick- Death, Death Factory, Mass Murder, Peep Hole, Hair into Cloth, and S.S men.
mia
6/1/2012 05:01:32 am
I felt scared and sad when Elie said "it's like I still hear the voices the screams they still have souls" he said and the jews were treated like animals the germans shaved their heads and put them in theses glass cabinets this was really gross yet touching. The hair was even sold and used for cloth this is what I mean by they were treated like animals sheep get their hair shaved not humans this was really inhuman of the germans to do. I felt upset, bad, and grossed out for all the jews. it made me feel scared because this could happen any day and as for me being a jehovah witness we got attacked before to as well so I know what it's all about and i'm scared for it to happen again because I don't want to be killed like that.me as an individual what made the biggest impact on me is the solders digging holes and lining up skinny naked body's alive and just shooting them the image of all the pits filled with super skinny piles of dead bodies and them burning the bodies in ovens and taking them out it was terrible images that stuck with me the moat are the baby's lined up getting killed as well it's horrible.and the words that are sticking with me are screaming, souls, death factory, burning babies.
catface
6/1/2012 05:05:16 am
I felt sad more then sad sacred for these people that had to go to this deaf camp and die for having nothing to do with how poor anyone was.the fact that babies had to die with out being giving a reason to die is just sick they could have changed the world by inventing a way to cure cancer.The pictures of people getting through in to the pit filled with fire are just horrifying Leave a Reply. |
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