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| Territory of The Nazis |
Today
at Schindler’s museum in Krakow, I was really amazed because of the amount of
information that was in there. I love the set up, they incorporated many stuff
together and it was great. It was similar to a mini labyrinth to me because it
seemed like everywhere I went I could not find an exit to return to the main
lobby. They were really artistic and the pictures and the videos on the wall.
They did such a great job with the pictures that they barely needed words to
explain them. I saw the Nazis’ flag. I wanted to take a picture with it but I thought
it would have been inappropriate. I don’t think nobody would have wanted to
stand next to this flag and smile or whatever. Therefore, I just took a picture
of it. There was this video that showed the bombing during WWII. We also saw a
map that showed the territories that the Nazis occupied during the war.
Furthermore,
last night, we had a guest speaker who is a survivor of the Holocaust. He talked
about how his dad never returned home and it is sad for a teenager to lose his
dad at that age, especially when you don’t know if he is dead or alive. If he
died in the camp or whatever. When the war broke out, he was 14 years old. His
family had to wear the yellow star to identify themselves. They were deprived
of public transport and once moved into the Ghetto, certain places were
forbidden. One room was to hold 5 people but they were lucky since they were
only two, him and his mother. The ghetto was established for especially two
tasks. They were to destroy the Jews with German activities and use slave labor
into German industries. He told us that people started to die from the
unsanitary conditions such as 1 bar of soap per family had to last 1 month,
starvation and diseases such as tuberculosis, fever…
In
March 1944 when he was returning from work, he was arrested and brought to a
camp. He was responsible for turning on and off the electricity since he was an
electrician. He goes very lucky. He also got attached to some friends and they
were planning to escape. He eventually did but some of his friends either did
not make it or stayed. He did escape and got help where he could not eat meat
for several days. He had to wait at least 4 weeks before eating a normal meal.
As you can see not all the Jews were as lucky as this man. He was brave and
still is today because one he escaped and that was a huge risk at that time. He
saw what happened to people who attempt and they were brought back and got
killed. He has the courage to tell his story and let other people know how was
life in the Ghetto, the camp and life during and after the war.
From
Father Manfred article “God and Evil” he is saying how God is good and
therefore the world is good but Evil is defined as when someone turns away from
God and do their own thing and that is what Hitler did. If God is omnipresent
and omniscient, he should see everything and it is kind of ironic because God
abandoned his people so the covenant was broken.
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