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The documentary

Frankly speaking, when we started to watch the documentary, I thought inside that it is the same thing that we do in every history classes. I roughly knew what happened during the Holocaust, I heard about it, and I felt bad for the Jews. But until I watched the video, I wasn’t aware of how the Jews must have felt in the concentration camps.

Why did the descriptions of Jews extermination camps from the documentary stay inside me? They must have been powerful-powerful enough to make me feel like there are some connections among us. I could feel how Jews must have lived every moment inside the “factory of death” and “a place where God didn’t exist.”

As I tried to study in my head how could a human do such things to another human being, I related these reasoning into our previous studies. Acceptable justification could be that only faith and belief of the Nazis had committed such treachery in human history. I believe God was present even in the concentration camps among the Nazis and the Jews but such unfortunate events took place because these people had abandoned Him.

Under the Germans, Jews had to live with fear of dying in the gas chambers everyday. There could be no mercy, trust, or love seen throughout the camps. Jews were living in hell. These innocent people were going through such trauma because of one man’s false belief. I would not know how exactly every agony was performed or what kind of lifestyle existed through the barbed wire, into the land of Auschwitz. But my understanding of the unfortunate event in the history of Jews gives me a feeling-pain in my heart.