A Long Night of Shattered Dreams

The Term Holocaust

The holocaust was a terrible tragedy. Many innocent people were murdered for a deluded idea of a solution to Germany's problems. Because of a conceitedly based idea, many people had to suffer. Superior race? Seriously? How many great innovations, ideas, advancements and so on have been made throughout the years? Where the inventors and heroes behind all these stories from one single race? No. Why must we be such proud creatures? No one person is "superior" to the other. Why must people have an arrogant attitude?

You may have a different outlook on this topic, and that is your right, but people who chose to ignore problems enable the problems to grow. Listen when problems arise. Do not ignore what is in front of you. For you may tell yourself that this problem will go away and is practically insignificant, but no problem is insignificant. Do you think that the people who were in Germany in the 1930s thought German problems would result in a new political party that would heartlessly slaughter innocent people? I think not. Therefore you must see that small problems now may be the gateways for disasters in the future.

I know the Holocaust seems ancient to my generation. Think of it this way: There are still people alive today that had to suffer through the horrendous events. The Holocaust is not so far behind us. I hope that no one ever takes light the events of the Holocaust. The acts of the Nazis baffle me. How could anyone be so heartless? I hope we never have to live through such a time again.

Pictured above is a picture I got here. This is what I think of when I think of the a holocaust or the Holocaust. This picture shows many bodies in a trench. The sad thing is, some of those people may have dug that trench, which was to become their grave. This shows how tragic things were during that time.

Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel grabbed hold of my emotions in his book Night. He is such an amazing writer. What he went through was tragic and the fact that he survived containment in the Nazis camps and then later wrote about it shocks me. He did not want the cold-hearted acts of the Nazis to fade with time. He did something that few people would do in his time. Elie Wiesel is a wonder.

Darkness

An excerpt from Night that has darkness in the passage is:

We received no food. We lived on snow; it took the place of bread. The days resembled the nights, and the nights left in our souls the dregs of their darkness. The train rolled slowly, often halted for a few hours, and continued. It never stopped snowing. We remained lying on the floor for days and nights, one on top of the other, never uttering a word. We were nothing but frozen bodies. Our eyes closed, we merely waited for the next stop, to unload our dead.

This passage has darkness all throughout. The darkness that the nights left in the prisoner souls is one example. The nights were so terrible, they left imprints on the souls of all who survived. Also, the passage talks about the dead. This has a lot of darkness within.