No one listens...

¨Life? I no longer care to live. I am alone. But I wanted to come back and warn you. Only no one is listening to me...¨ Moishe the Beadle pg 7, Night.

Moishe had seen awful terrors when he encountered the Gestapo in Polish territory. The quote from Moishe shows him giving up. He begins to lose hope in his friends and his own survival. I think that once you lose hope, you soon after die. What Moishe saw was horrific. I assume he would have died (with the other Jews that were with him) if he wasn't so determined to warn his friends. His purpose was to at least try to give warning. His survival was miraculous, he shouldn't be giving up. However I think it was noble of him to suffer all the way back just to give his friends a heads up.

I can connect this to a video we watched in Social Studies, ¨A Survivor Remembers¨  where a Holocaust survivor spoke about her experiences. She said that if you had hope, and imagination, you survived longer. This is probably because if you dwelled on the worst, the emotional turmoil will destroy you. Also, if you were strong, with something to live for, you can make it. Moishe had his friends to go on for so they could at least have a chance. The theme my quote portrayed was Hopelessness. Moishe the Beadle had no hope after his friends refused to hear his desperate cries of warning. He lost hope for his own, and even his friends’ lives. I wonder how long Moishe will survive since he has lost hope. How could he no longer care about his life?

 I chose this because those in the Holocaust had to hold onto everything, hope, their belongings. And Iḿ sure many surviving victims thought the Holocaust was going to be the end of their story, and for many, unfortunately it was. I chose this picture because during the Holocaust, it was a time for despair yet people still hoped anyway. Those who hoped were able to live. It connects to a quote of the week we had ¨Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.¨ -President Snow the Hunger Games. Because despair and fear are very similar, and hope can be so strong and powerful it overcome any obstacle.


Life for those in the concentration camps was unimaginably hard. But some survivors kept their hope until the very end. Some people are stronger than others. One Holocaust survivor, Ibi Ginsberg says "We were constantly hungry, humiliated, we worked, but we knew that the end was coming... We just hung on to life" which shows that if you hoped and wanted it bad enough, you had a chance.