1-6-07 topic: Holocaustst heroes

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am going to take more time to remember those who were in the holocaust. It is a very sad story. As many as 6 million jews died. :(

Today I learned something that I will remember forever. In Mr.Carmody's class, when we had the time, I picked up a book. The book was about Holocaust survivors. I thought, "Hey, this will be interesting to read." so I took the time to read it for the rest of the period.

The minute I flipped to chapter one, I was shocked. Survivors talk about the gruesome smell. They say they could smell the people burning in the gas chamber.

This made me want to be sick, as I cannot even imagine this. If I knew what this was, and I was there, I would be terrified. Some jews commited suicide! Hey, I think I might have too, eventually.

The nazis and workers picked out the young and strong to do slave labor. The elderly or sick were sent to the gas chambers, or were shot on sight.

Another thing That I thouight was so nasty, was how they gassed them. Apparently, The jews were told they were going to a "bath-house" and were even led down a hall that looked like a bath-house. When the jews got into the small area, the nazis locked the room. They then dropped poison pellets into the phony shower room.Whats worse is some people watched their fellow human beings suffer! This is so wrong.

The worse part of this was they thrived off the jews' deaths! They got pretty much everything they could sell. Nazis looked in peoples dead mouths for gold tooth caps. Anything they could find was shipped to German banks. Talk about nasty. They would also sell the peoples clothes to Germans. They used the skin to make lamp shades. They used hair to stuff pillows. The childrens toys were re-sold to German kids. How could somebody do this? They are people like us, and even after death should have been treated with respect!

All I can hope from this, is that it never, ever happens again. Lets hope we have learned from this mistake.

Some info from the Belsen Death Camp I saw... : http://shamash.org/holocaust/photos/#Belsen