Escaping Your Morals
Being put in a life or death situation might be everybody’s worst fear. You’re having a nightmare that you are burning alive eighty stories up, and you’re only choice to ease the pain is to jump. Or you are faced with a choice that you can do something against your morals, or die. Rarely do we experience these situations in real life; it’s only something we can derive from television, or pull out of a book. Benjamin Jacobs lived his nightmare. He lived our nightmare. He was put in a life or death situation, not for a day, but for four years and two months. Being put in a situation such as that, one faces decisions, things he or she could do to live, or die. Benjamin Jacobs is a Holocaust survivor. He was placed in a concentration camp with his father and they were both sent to work. In the concentration camps, you either work, or die, and working was the medicine to cure immanent death. During a roll call at Jacobs’ first concentration camp, Steineck, the SS officers asked for all doctors, tailors, and cooks to step forward (Jacobs). They did so, but Jacobs, with dentistry training, was reluctant to step forward. After his father urged him to do so, he complied and was assigned to be the camp d
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Approximate Word count = 1603
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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