blog #6

1. What scenes were most powerful to you and why?
For me the most powerful images were the video clips in the beginning of the video. They showed women being dug up. You could barely tell they were women. I found the photos at the end of the video when they found the girls in the bicycle factory. The girls were all bone, you could barely see the life in their eyes. When Gerda went to get her Oscar, I thought her speech was really moving and powerful.
2. How did the Nazis dehumanize Jews?
From the documentary, they made the Jews feel like they were worthless. In the pictures I saw, the women were starves. A way the Nazis could dehumanize them would have been to not give them proper food. If I was them then I would start to feel like I was being treated like a poorly treated animal.

3. If I was put in her situation I think I would try to think about anything. When I was thinking about this before I started to wonder what my life was like while I was in Guatemala. I think I would try to build a story from what I have heard from my parents. I think i probably take a lot of things for granted but the sad thing is I don’t think I would really appreciate them until they are all gone. I could try but I do not think it would be the same.

4. In the holocaust Jews were not the only ones being targeted. Today, people of a different race, sexual orientation, or people with disabilities are still targeted to prejudice views. In my own family there is some prejudice. My grandfather can be a little bit racist but that was how he thought when he was a kid. My father can be well not racist but sometimes stereotypical. People who are gay are often made fun of. There are kids who have committed suicide because they were bullied about being gay. Today a lot of “minorities” are still being discriminated. My mom said that Hitler would have hated our family because my mother is disabled, I am not white and both my parents are fully Jewish. My family Is proud of that and I hope that things will change in the future.