Chattahoochee River
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
SHOCKING
When I read that the foreign Jews were ok with being taken out of their own homes and being placed in the ghettos I was shocked. I questioned how they didn't seem more alarmed or didn't resist that much. I also find it shocking how they did not hear Moishe's stories of what happened to the foreign Jews as a warning of what could happen to them, and what eventually did happen to them. I think it's possible that they didn't listen to Moishe's warning because of how absurdly terrible it sounded, it almost too hard to believe that people were cable of such atrocities.
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After rereading the first chapter, I agree with you in regards to being shocked by how the Jews didn't question or resist to what was happening to them, but I don't think that they were "okay" with being taken from their homes. I feel like they were only obeying the German officers so that they would be able to return soon.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with you, Erik, as well as Kayla. I think that due to a combination of fear for what might happen to them if they disobeyed, hopefulness for a return to normalcy after they obeyed, and simply not knowing or not believing the magnitude of the violence that was inevitably going to encompass them, they were compliant with the German officers.
ReplyDeleteI agree, their reaction to being moved into ghettos was quite shocking, but I think it was easier to pretend everything was okay rather than facing the fact that the lives they once had were coming to an end.
ReplyDeleteAs for the idea put forth by Kayla and Cami, I do think they might have hoped for normalcy, but I think in the back of their minds they knew nothing would ever be "normal" again.