The Nazi Genocide and It's Effects

Over the past few weeks have been studying World War 2 and the Nazi genocide. As we learned about the horrible and horrific events of the genocide my outlook about the event severely changed. We read the novel Night by Elie Wiesel and watch the film Life Is Beautiful. My initial impression going into this unit was that the Nazi’s had killed many Jews during the Holocaust. It was a very broad understanding of what had happened from 1933-1940. Now that we are wrapping up this unit my understanding and view has changed. I learned more in depth about the Holocaust and the severe trauma it caused in Europe, youself, and the families of victims of the Holocaust. I now know exactly what happened in those camps and the extreme force that the Germans used. On our trip to the Holocaust Memorial Museum I got take an in depth look at the events leading up  to the Holocaust. Also how Hitler rose to power and controlled all of Germany. Reading the book night by Elie Wiesel gave me a first hand experience to seeing what the Jews had to endure and go through in the camps. As i got into the novel more and more it began to feel like I was reading a fictional piece by Shakespeare. The events that were happening with the labor and getting whipped just could not seem real. We also watched the film Life is Beautiful. The film really showed me what a Jewish family living a normal life had to go through. The film was challenging to watch as I could see with my own eyes what was happening to these people.Everything was taken from them and they were thrown into these labor camps. Horrific. Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. His acceptance speech is a very emotional speech wrote by Elie. He delivered the speech on December 10th, 1986 in Oslo, Norway. He starts out with a few thank you notes but hen said he could not dedicate the speech to those who had perished during the Holocaust. Elie talked about some of the roots of the Jewish faith then makes some connections to other historical leaders. Over all the speech did not move me as much as the novel or the film. Throughout the unit learning about everything that had happened was incredible. It amazed me how such horrible things had happen to these people and those who were able to survive were able to get back up again.