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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Sticking Together
I used to have a soccer coach that told us, "When we're losing we can't blame each other and fight with each other. If we let the other team get inside our heads and pull ourselves apart for them, there is no way we have a chance of winning." When the Jews were on the train and Mrs. Schächter started going crazy, I thought of this. People on the train started gagging her and hitting her until she finally gave up, and I thought that they were in no position to hurt each other. If they turn on each other it only makes it easier for the Germans to pull them apart and destroy them. They, instead, should have been doing everything possible to stick together.
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Marissa, that's a really interesting quote from your soccer coach. I agree that the Jewish people in the cattle car should have taken a different approach in handling Mrs. Schachter. It would give the German Nazis an advantage to this situation and in the end it would definitely drive the Jewish people further apart. However I can see why they did that to Mrs. Schachter. Perhaps they felt compelled to hurt her because she was going insane and screaming fire countless times and so the Jewish people might have been afraid to end up like her because of the situation they were in.
ReplyDeleteYour coach is exactly right. When you play in team sports your only option to come out victorious is to play as a team and support one an other. Eventhough the Jews weren't a team, in a sense they are. Instead of taking out the weakest link they should've supported her and tried to get her back to her senses.
ReplyDeleteMarisa, you brought up a very interesting point and I completely agree with you. The Jews in fact should have approached Mrs. Schachter's hysteria in a different manner because their beatings towards her didn't help at all in the situation. I get that they were probably scared that she kept screaming about fire and was going insane about it, but if they all stuck together it would have helped the situation much more because that way the Germans would have to tear them apart.I guess this was just the Jews way of coping with Mrs. Schatcher's situation.
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