The Holocaust

[BabyPiglet]

Well since I was about 10 years old I've been obsessed about books concerning Jewish people during the Holocaust. My favorite books were books from the eyes of the children. Some of my favorite were - The Diary of Anne Frank - Behind the Cuboard - Night - Dawn - Tell Me we remeber...

Anyway, I heard recently on the news that some people are specualting that The Holocaust didn't even happen. ???

Tell me what you think of the Holocaust...

 

[Sparx]

If someone wants to believe it never happened, thats their right to do so. I think its ignorant, I think its bad, I think its stupid. But they can do that if they want.

 

[PrincessKally]

I really enjoyed reading about the Holocaust. In 8th grade (I'm now a sophmore) we spent like 3/4 months learning about it in Social Studies and ENglish. We read Anne Frank and another book, I cann't remember the name, but we then met the man who wrote it. I was and still am fascinated by it. It is so touching. I remember I cried the majority of the way through the Holocaust muesum when we went on our 8th grade trip to D.C. So incredibly sad, but so much to learn from it.

 

[BabyPiglet]

When I was 12, me and my parents went to Amsterdam. We walked through the place where Anne Frank was hidden. I know I was only twelve and really didn't know all about it yet, but I was balling. I was seriously crying until my eyes hurt. It's so sad that they had to live up there for 2 years never went outside, just sitting. I know I couldn't do it I'd go crazy..

I don't but for some reason reading this stuff from a child's eyes is a better perspective for me. It's like they're kids they wouldn't lie.

Reading this stuff just touches me in the bottom most part of my heart. I don't know really how to explain it, it just does?...

 

[Babyjustrun]

I used to love Holocaust books, like Hana's Suitcase.
Anne Frank wasn't exactly the best for me, I read it in french and it was just kind of like .. boring. Some parts were touching, but a lot of it was 'I sat around and did nothing. I hate the evil lady I live with.' She also once described some of her 'awesome parts.'

 

[DisneyGirl421]

Being a history buff, I of course am fascinated by The Holocaust. Actually, my favorite time period is WWII-era events.
Everytime I read a book or watch a movie/documentary/etc on the Holocaust, I always get sad, sometimes even cry.
My favorite Holocaust-related movie is La Bella Italia (Life is Beautiful). It's an Italian film about the Holocaust with Roberto Benini, who is an amazing and hilarious actor. It's incredibly sad, but really funny at the same time. I recomend seeing it if you like this era.

 

[PrincessKally]

I totally understand what you mean. Because when you read, your picturing the lil girl and her family, living in basically an attic. I loved that book, it was so touching and so sad. THe other book I read was a man's POV when he was s chiild in the Holocaust, another very touching , sad sad story.

 

[DramaGirl]

Have you ever seen Paper Clips? It's about these kids who did a project on th eholocaust. I LOVE that movie!

 

[SplshMtnLvr28]

Yeah. My dad thinks the Holocaust didn't happen. Um... so I guess 10 million people just disappeared? Yeah, it's their right to believe it, but if they do, they're effing idiots.

I can't express my anger with those kind of people here.

 

[BabyPiglet]

I used to love Holocaust books, like Hana's Suitcase.
Anne Frank wasn't exactly the best for me, I read it in french and it was just kind of like .. boring. Some parts were touching, but a lot of it was 'I sat around and did nothing. I hate the evil lady I live with.' She also once described some of her 'awesome parts.'

Not trying to be mean, but what did you expect her to say. She lived up there for 2 years doind nothing. What could she do?? Her writing touched me...

 

[pigletgirl]

To me the holocaust is one of the worst genocides in man kind. I feel so sorry for the families who where ripped apart, by an evil man.

We had a guest speaker last year, who was a survivor of the holocaust, and the pictures he shared with us made it seem so much more real and intense.

 

[Babyjustrun]

Not trying to be mean, but what did you expect her to say. She lived up there for 2 years doind nothing. What could she do?? Her writing touched me...

I don't expect anything more than that, I just particularly find it interesting.
and some of her writing was good, I liked a lot of what she said. It was a little difficult for me to get what she was saying because I read it in french, but it was okay.

 

[TheBellhop]

I used to love Holocaust books, like Hana's Suitcase.
Anne Frank wasn't exactly the best for me, I read it in french and it was just kind of like .. boring. Some parts were touching, but a lot of it was 'I sat around and did nothing. I hate the evil lady I live with.' She also once described some of her 'awesome parts.'

Of course, it was her diary. I don't think many diaries are exactly "sit on the edge of your seat turning pages like crazy" exciting, y'know?

 

[BabyPiglet]

Have you ever seen Paper Clips? It's about these kids who did a project on th eholocaust. I LOVE that movie!

yes I did read that...

 

[PrincessKally]

I guess though so many people have such different opinons on it, I guess I don't understand how you can beleive it jsut didnt happen. That blows my mind....

 

[Babyjustrun]

A good book I read though was..
Oh I can't remember. But it was about a girl who lived in Germany and were found by the Gestapos. Her grandmother had something along the lines of alzheimers. She was sent to a safety camp in France, but it was disease ridden and nasty. She played music for the people and such. Eventually she got a visa or something to head to Switzerland to live without her mother... it was a good book; but I can't remember the name.
Something to do with Angels.

 

[BabyPiglet]

Oh I also read this book about this girl who was sent to a concentration camp with her mother and father and brothers I think. Well eventualy after a long and hard battle her mother and father died. But her and her brothers were freed when the Russians came. She was left to care for her brothers by herself. It was sooooooo sad!!!

How peopel can think there was no Holocaust is beyond me. When there are actual factual accounts of it. And people still alive today who lived through it??

 

[PatriotsRule]

I've read Number the Stars twice. I don't know if anyone else here has watched it. I've also read Night.

I've also watched the first documentary on the Holocaust which was made not long after they discovered the reality of what was going on inside the camps. The eerie part of it is that there's no music and little commentary since it was never finished, so a lot of it is silence. You're basically watching the Germans carry and bury thousands of bodies in silence. That's definitely going to be branded in my mind for as long as I live.

 

[abercrombie.lovex3]

i think itss sadd..
there is thiss book youhh might like itss called The Devils Arithmetic
its kinda borin but youhh might like it
check it one dayy =]

 

[PrincessKally]

Oh I also read this book about this girl who was sent to a concentration camp with her mother and father and brothers I think. Well eventualy after a long and hard battle her mother and father died. But her and her brothers were freed when the Russians came. She was left to care for her brothers by herself. It was sooooooo sad!!!

How peopel can think there was no Holocaust is beyond me. When there are actual factual accounts of it. And people still alive today who lived through it??

That sounds really familiar I think I may have read that book too.