Gela Seksztajn was a Jewish women who was transfered and lived in the Warsaw ghetto. She was an artist and the picture above is a self portrait that she drew. She wrote a will, which was preserved with her water colors, in the underground achieves of the Warsaw Ghetto. She also wrote " I am now standing at the boundaries between life and death. I already for certain know that I must die and that is why I want to bid farewell to my friends and my work. Farewell, comrades and friends. Jews! Do everything that such a tragedy will never be repeated."
Above:a movie of Warsaw Ghetto pictures
Link To A Jewish Historical Institute Site
As a reflection to what I have learned for this assignment, is that when you hear numbers as big as 6 million to 12 million people is that you can't imagine that number very well. When people tell you about the Holocaust and how many people died in it you can't imagine that many people and all the terrible things that the Nazi's did to people they didn't like. In this blog I wanted to show you one persons point of view of what happened because if you can't imagine one person you definitely can't imagine 6 million people getting killed.
1 comment:
Wow Kyle, this is a very powerful post. I really brings home the reality of the tragedy of even one person's death, much less the millions.
I like what you say about not being able to comprehend the huge numbers. Some people have tried to simulate the numbers with paper clips or other items. That may seem exciting and an objective lesson, but it really fails to recognize what you pointed out in this post.
Not even one person's death can be simulated, much less millions of individual human lives, each with loved ones and relationships and friends and classmates and peers and more.
Great work!
SGTGPFU
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