Holocaust Project
-Alison Klein
Dehumanization
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Grandfather's stories:
1. My grandfather is a first generation german on his mother's side. His mother was german and father was from Vienna. When he was young, his parents moved from Germany to the United States where he grew up with his parents and brother. He says, " When my brother and I were growing up the other kids would all us little Nazi's. This was just because we were Germans. So, my family always participated in patriotic activities just to prove to everyone that we weren't Nazis. We always told people that we moved from Germany to the United States by choice not because we had to." (My Grandfather. Robert William Klein the first)
3. " 'We visited one of the concentration camps when I grew up and all I can remember is seeing all the mass graves, gas chambers, torture chambers, and picturing all the destruction that occurred. I remember thinking back, and then coming back and seeing all the mass graves that was just a deep trench that the Nazi's threw dead bodies into and then either burned them and then covered it by dirt, or just covered it b y tons of dirt.' " (My Grandfather. Robert William Klein the first)
Suffering
Pg. 34
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transform into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God himself.
NEVER. "
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Pg. 115
“ From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.
The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.”