THE HOLOCAUST AND SCHLINDER'S LIST
During the Holocaust, the German treatment and attitude toward the Jewish people, the different kinds of torture they suffered, and the many survival problems they had in staying alive, were their most horrifying moments they could imagine. The Jews lived in complete horror. All the Jews' possession were being taken away; the rich became poor as the poor became poorer. The Jews had to remain strong physically and psychologically; the strong became stronger as the weak became weaker. The Germans were turmoil to the Jews. The Jews feared German persecution and were powerless to defend themselves. Germans determined the Jews' life expectancy based on their physical features. They were forced for labor while opportunity to work meant a few extra hours or days of living. There were malnutrition and starvation. Thousands of people suffered illnesses and diseases because of the lack of food. The Jews feared death every day in different forms of persecution, gas chambers, exhaustion, starvation and disease. Their main goal was staying alive and surviving another day. In order to successfully survive the similar horrific circumstances as the Holocaust, one's faith must be impenetrable through all obstacles. As seen in Elie Wie
As in Schindler's List, the Jews were encountering the same circumstances as the Jews in Night, but they happened to survive. Although they were forced to depart from their families, they still managed to remain as a community. They had Schindler to look up to while their faith in God was not present. Schindler controlled their fate. They had learnt that selfishness and independent would not bring them freedom. They had to rely on something and Schindler is their only hope whose sympathy had altered their fate. When the group of female Schindler workers were mistakenly sent to the concentration camp instead of his factory, the women as a community hastened to say that "We are the Schindlerjuden, we work for Oskar Schindler." This passage showed the Jews still concern about others at that time as they spoke as a community "We" instead of "I". The outcomes of the Jews in both novels are different: those who became independent fail to alter their fate under the German persecutions whereas those who act as a community were saved. "I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscien
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