Holocaust Aow Impression Blog

          When seeing all the different articles based off the Holocaust, many emotions hit me. Sadness, horror were many. One thing that seeing all these articles made me realize, was that even if the Holocaust was in the past, it still manages to appear in peoples lives in some way or another. For example, my specific article was on how many concentration camps there was in total. Which researchers had only discovered the full number in 2013. It was only three years ago, but many years ago to the actual happenings of the Holocaust.

          An article that caught my attention was Devin's article on a man who had been a former SS guard, and was being put to trial for 300,000 assisted murder charges. The article had been posted on July 15, 2015, which again shows how the Holocaust in general is still around today. The article had said how the man was morally sorry for what he had done, but legally, it wasn't decided yet. The article also had talked about his experience as an Auschwitz guard, and how he was assigned to guard the area from the cattle carts, to the gas chambers. This caught my attention because normally those guards wanted to cause harm to the Jews, that they had purposely requested that position. However, this man said he had no clue of what the job was going to be like, and once he got there, he couldn't back out.

         Another article that caught my attention was Evie's article on a man who was a Holocaust survivor, and teaches kids based off of his experiences. The article had been recently updated as of January 2016, which also shows how the Holocaust is still around. The article talked about how he has been educating kids for over 25 years, and how he has been receiving letters from the kids he speaks to every week. I thought this was special, because I feel like if he were to speak with me, I would probably send him a letter as well. It made me wonder just what did these kids write about in their letters to him, and what he had even told them as he has been educating various kids for again, 25 years. Had this man told the same story he always talked about?

Oskar Gröningz, former SS guard put to trial for committing 300,000 assisted murders.