We're Moving? Where?

¨´The news is terrible,´ he said at last. And then one word: ´Transports.´ The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely.¨ - Elie’s father, Night, p. 13

This shows me that the sudden news of liquidation was terrible for Elie and his family because they had no clue what was to come after they had the transport. When I read this section I was curious as to what would happen to the family as a whole. I was worried for them because families need to stay together as much as possible. The transport made room for someone in the family to get separated because there is all this huddling and cramming into small spaces and that makes family further from other family members.  This made me think that I need to realize how fortunate my family is for being able to live in a stable place and not having to be forced out of their ¨home¨. The one thing that I think will keep their family strong is that they have to remember ¨home is where the heart is¨.

This right away made me think of homes that have to be foreclosed and liquidated and the choice-less choices that go with that. The people in the homes that had been and are being liquidated today is a big problem but, Jewish people during the Holocaust had an even bigger problem because of the choice-less choices that they had to face within the whole experience. The choice-less choices that people today have to deal with aren't as bad because there are family members that probably have room for them if they are forced to move out. During the Holocaust the choice-less choices that the Jewish people had to deal with were whether they were going to die in the current camp that they were in, or die by being gassed or another camp. Some Jewish people couldn't handle the issues that went on in the camps so another choice-less choice they had was to just give up. People who are thrown out onto the streets now don't really have that option to do that, they have to face the poverty, and homelessness side effects that come with your house being liquidated.