response to film-katie pittman

 The film we watched in class really showed me what it was like to live in that time period. My heart goes out to everyone that had to endure the pain, suffering, torture, and evil wrath of Hitler. It makes me so sad to know that something so terrible actually took place. I don't know if I would have been able to survive if I was a Jewish lady back then. Nobody should be treated the way the Jews were treated. Especially because there was absolutely no reason at all it. All of those deaths were so unfair. They didn't do anything at all to deserve to be treated that way. Not even an animal should have to endure that kind of pain and suffering. What I don't understand however, is how the rest of the world could  allow this to happen? I do believe that everything happens for a reason, though. The only good that I feel that came out of this horrific event is that hopefully as a society we learn from our mistakes and nothing even close to this happens ever again. The part of the film that really affected me the most was when they were showing all of those super skinny dead bodies laying on the sidewalks. The old lady that was being interviewed closed her eyes and started crying and said that she couldn't watch that part beacsue she was now human and could cry, but before she was emotionless. I couldn't imagine walking down the street and just seeing dead body after body. I was thinking why doesn't one of the Jewish people do something and get rid of the corpses? And just as that though crossed my mind, the film showed two men scooping up dead bodies and putting them on a wheel barrow type thing and transporting them to get buried, I suppose. The Holocaust was definitely a tragedy and this film broke my heart.