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Question

i've been sitting here 5 hours and don't have **** written. i need help figuring out how knowledge about the holocaust is limited when it's produced by a first hand account. the idea is to not make this obvious. can somebody please help me out?

Answer 1

Well (and I say this as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and someone who has been involved for years with survivor groups), my experience with survivors has been that each interpreted their experiences within the framework of their own personality. For example, my aunt claimed that it was all a good experience because it made her stronger. My mother said that only sticking to her moral beliefs allowed her to survive, but others have said that it was necessary to do anything they could to survive, even if it was against their morality. Some survivors, who went through the experience with their family members, claim that the only way to survive was to be supported by family. Others, who were alone, will tell you that the only reason they survived was because they didn't have anyone else around to worry about and hold them back. Basically, no one individual saw the whole picture of the Holocaust, so any account is necessarily biased toward the experience of that individual.

Answer 2

I'm not exactly sure what you're saying, but it sounds like you're trying to write a story that demonstrates that first hand accounts of an event (like the Holocaust) are limited. It shouldn't be too hard, maybe write it in contrasts with two first person accounts, one from a Jewish Internee's point of view and the other from a guard's point of view. Then just demonstrate the limitations from each point of view. ie, the Jewish prisoner thinks his guard is an evil monster but the guard is could actually be very conflicted about following orders killing other people. Or the guard thinks that Jews are the next thing to demons but his prisoner is actually very kind and caring. That would be my suggestion.

Answer 3

It's limited because "they" didn't want everyone to know the true extent of what went on. I read one book that said only a few hundred died. Then another that said the number couldn't be calculated because of people fleeing the country. What really happened was there were thousands that were tortured, mutilated and starved to death. Genocide-the irradication of an entire group of peoples or type of peoples. Jewish people weren't just taken out of Germany but surrounding countries also. Then people that were accused of harboring or helping Jews were also executed. "It's a beautiful life", a movie based on the holocaust gives hints throughout the movie about what actually went on verses what the people were told went on. Some of the info in our books is first hand but it has been edited dramatically. I hope this helps a little. Good luck

Answer 4

In simple terms -

At the time of the Holocaust, there was no way to extrapolate the formation of the State of Israel. People were only concerned with surviving.