Holocaust-Expository Writing

Assignment; Imagine Erica, Peter or Daniel's mother are still alive. Pick one of the three characters and ask yourself, "What questions would you like to ask the character?"  Explain why your questions are important to you. Tell the character what you've learned and how you feel after hearing their story. If you can relate her experiences to any conditions facing your generation, explain those connections. Describe for the character what you will do to teach future generations the lessons you've learned from studying the Holocaust.

I have learned many things from the holocaust. The things that happened in Daniel’s story are all things that could have really happened during the holocaust. One of the things that I have learned is that so many things can happen to a group of people just because of their race. I would ask Daniel’s mother how she made it alive thru out all those months, probably years, in the camp without much food, water, medicine or any help at all. I would ask her this because at the end of the holocaust there were not a lot of people that made it alive.. How did she feel having no freedom at all, being called a number instead of her name? It would be interesting to know what it’s like not to have freedom, not to be called by your own name, being treated like you’re not even a person. The German’s took away all their freedom, possessions and even after all that they drove them away from their family. How did she feel when she was free and realized that most of her family was dead? I haven’t lost many of my family at the same time so I would like to know what it feels like to lose a daughter, cousins, brothers and sisters. Especially knowing that they died for being a Jew and the German’s are the ones to blame. I also wonder if she would kill the Germans if she could, for revenge, or if she wouldn’t do the same thing to them, like her husband did, if she would thing that revenge just makes her as bad as them. After hearing her story and her family’s, and after realizing that the holocaust was a real event in life and that over 2 million people were killed I wish people would have done something about it sooner, that what Adolf Hitler didn’t make life as better as he wanted it to be. It just made him a hated person by many and in the end he just failed, I feel bad for everyone who went through the holocaust, everyone who has relatives that were in it, and everyone who suffered because of the race they belong to.