Inspire..

As I was reading I found 2 quotes ( or opinions) that really stuck out in my mind. For me they were very memorable and I really liked them:

1.  `` A survivor, Elie Wiesel, has written: `` Novelists made free use of ( the Holocaust) in their work... In so doing they cheapened (it), drained it of its substance. The Holocaust was now a hot topic, fashionable, guaranteed to gain attention and to achieve instant success...``

• this statement shows the novelty that the survivors of the Holocaust think that the public takes to the things that happened. Personally I think that this statement is very powerful and it shows a lot as to what the survivors think of the general public and the Holocaust. The events of the Holocaust were very horrific but they also can make very many marketable things such as blockbuster movies. The survivor that is mentioned (Elie Wiesel) can more than likely remember the events of those years to great detail. The media seems to put a negative spin on the things of the past

2.     
" You have come to a concentration camp, not a sanatorium, and there is only one way out-   
           up the  chimney." He said, "Anyone who don't like this can try hanging himself on the wires. If 
          there are Jews in this group, you have no right to live more than two weeks." 

• this quote shows the reference to the crematoriums that are in the concentration camps and the things that the Nazi's thought the Jews were thinking. The Nazi's thought that if someone was to try to escape the concentration camps then it would be through the gas chambers and then only their soul would make it through the chimney. The Nazi commander that is speaking is implying that no matter how hard you try to get out of the concentration camps and try to escape you wont make it out. This makes me think of the sign at the entrance of Auschwitz, "Arbeit Macht Frei" that translates to work will set you free. This sign is an iconic one and demonstrates the serious nature of the camp when it was being used. This can be linked to the oven that was used at Auschwitz called "Krema I" and the sentence can show that the bodies that were burned here would never escape.

Both sentences that I used had a very big impact on me and they demonstrated the things that happened at the concentration camps. It is also a comparison as to what the Nazi commander thinks compared to what a survivor thinks of the Holocaust.