Blog Feb 12, 2016

Holocaust AOW Impressions

Prompt: Take a moment to reflect upon your impressions of what you have learned from the array of article in at least two well written paragraphs, using evidence from your graphic organizer. 

            One thing I learned from the Holocaust article gallery walk is how different people who lived though the concentration camps had different thoughts and actions toward the Nazis and other people. One article talked about how a man didn't have any hate towards the Nazis even though he witnessed harsh events. His reason for this is because he didn't want to be a hypocrite. The Nazis loathed the Jews, and if he felt the same way toward them it would make him feel the same way the German felt about the Jews, and he knew that wasn't right. Another group of people wanted to help Syrian refugees, because they didn't want those people to experience a similar situation. When these holocaust survivors saw a dead baby on the beach they knew they had to help. The holocaust survivors probably witnesses seeing their loved ones die, and didn't want to see other people having to deal with the same problem. As I was learning about all of these articles I could see that some people had different actions and thoughts after surviving the Holocaust. 

            Another thing I learned from the holocaust AOW gallery walk is how much the Holocaust affected people. Holocaust survivors have a high chance of developing schizophrenia, because of past events. People who faced the Holocaust are more likely to develop schizophrenia than people who were indirectly affected. The people who had been born into the Holocaust have had the highest rates of schizophrenia among all of the Holocuat survivors. People who were indirectly exposed to the Holocaust have a 27% chance of being diagnosed of schizophrenia than the people who actually faced the holocaust. People who were directly exposed to the holocaust have a 41% higher chance than the people who indirectly faced the holocaust. Holocaust survivors have been traumatized with this event. They have seen their loved ones killed in front of them, and had everything taken away from them. From this event people have been dealing with it it many different ways.