The Other Victims
"The following asocial elements are to be transferred from the prison to the Reichsfuehrer S.S. to be worked to death: persons under protective arrest, Jews, Gypsies, Russians, Ukrainians, Poles . . . Czechs, and Germans with sentences of more than eight years . . . quoted by Reichsfuehrer S. S. Himmler, on September 18, 1942". When author Ina R. Friedman wrote this book, by accumulating stories from people in various parts of Germany and the U. S., she unveiled hidden truths that not many people had ever had the opportunity to know, whether due to ignorance, sadness and sorrow, humiliation, secretes to be hidden, or just a desperate need to forget. There was a need for people to know the truth. In reading this book, we find out that sixty years after the Holocaust many people believe that only Jews were the victims of the Nazis. Today, more and more, the truth is being revealed in books like Friedman's and movies from producers like Speilburg. It is important for others to know not only the "harrowing" stories of the Jews persecution, but of the "others" that many never knew were being persecuted. In the book, THE OTHER VICTIMS, Friedman reveals true accounts of who these other victims were and why they were pers
As an educator, this book revealed the hardships of people just like you and me. The lessons in this book and the stories are so profound. There are encouraging outcomes at the end of most every story. It revealed the pervasiveness of Hitler's attack and parallels with the possible hatred in today's society, though not as gory, yet still as harmful. Hitler did not accomplish this horrible task alone. It took many people. Just as Hitler caused a world of hurts, it is important to believe that each person can make a difference in the world in which we live. It will come through educating people that everyone is different and by accepting that difference as long as our differences are not deadly to others. For educators, this book will encourage one's desire to strengthen cultural differences and educate teachers of ways to implement successful multicultural classrooms for the twenty-first century. ecuted. Her reasoning behind her writings, "Like the young people whose stories are told in this book, each of us has a responsibility to safeguard the rights of others. If we do not, our own rights could vanish". There are many stories throughout this book that reveal inhumane acts against almost every kind of person, even of German decent. It is hard to understand what makes one person think like this or have so much hatred for anyone. It must have been that he was full of the devil himself! Every story was mesmerizing and made the book hard to put down. How could one person have ruined the lives of so many people? The contents of the stories caused many emotions to flame. Things that had never been thought of before act
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