Friday, April 19, 2013
Freedom doesn't last forever.
Freedom could mean many things to different people. To me freedom means to have rights and to be able to do things you enjoy. The Jews didn't have freedom. Their rights were slowly being taken away little at a time. Then they ended up being taken to ghettos. There they basically had no rights. The Germans told them orders which they had to follow or they would be killed or abused.The Nazis also made them do jobs that were way beyond jobs that could be done by people of their strength and/or age starting around the age of six. After awhile it got to the point where they couldn't leave or see anyone or even do what they please. If I were to lose my rights and my freedom like the people of the Jewish religion had, I would be horrified. If it were to happen to me I would feel alone, terrified, helpless, and like I was being overpowered by others. Freedom is very important and meaningful to basically everyone weather during the Holocaust, now, or basically any time period. Losing freedom can and will change emotions and could tear so many people apart and cause others to just break down.
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Great thoughts, Kendall. Your idea that "losing freedom can and will change emotions" made me think about how the Holocaust has changed the way millions of people felt, thought, and lived. Those who lived through WWII and those who simply learn about it through history class all experience a wide range of emotions and personal changes prompted by the experience. A person living through WWII might have an entirely different personality and view of life after experiencing the Holocaust, and there is no way to undo that. In a way, the Holocaust also took away people's freedom to live without the horror of experiencing or learning about those events.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting! I agree that they may have "A person living through WWII might have an entirely different personality and view of life after experiencing the Holocaust, and there is no way to undo that." After living through something so tragic, so horrid, so inhumane how could somebody be strong enough to go back to their normal everyday life? How could it be possible for them to be themselves and not be afraid of everyone around them? Losing their freedom was just horrible, without freedom we all more than likely will be horrified.
DeleteI agree that freedom doesn't last forever. Once they were put in the ghetto's they had no rights. So after a while I think that they were just hopeless about the idea of being free and what it meant to be free. I also agree about the effects you specified when losing your freedom. Many people would have changed emotions and cause people to break down. They would just think that they would never be able to get their freedom back and that probably made them very horrified and make some of them go crazy from being told what to do by other people. They wouldn't know what to do anymore if they weren't allowed to do basically anything. Just the thought of not having freedom is scary to me. I wouldn't know what to do either. I would become hopeless just like how the Jewish people were from losing their freedom.
ReplyDeleteI agree that after I while they would become hopeless. But also while this was happening some of them did have hope. Even though that number is more than likely very small there were still some who had hope throughout it all.
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