Jewish Holocaust

We watch an interesting movie on Tuesday. I cannot remember the title of it, however it was about survivor’s recounts of their experience in the camps and people’s reaction to their stories after the fact. The part of the movie that I found most interesting was the public’s perception of the holocaust. What I mean by the public is other countries around the world such as the United States, and Western European countries. People in these countries were so obvious as to what was going on in Germany. They had absolutely no idea how bad it was for the Jews, they only knew what the media was telling them (which wasn’t much).

Survivors explained throughout the movie their emotions after the holocaust was over. Some people were apologetic for surviving, some were happy, some where embarrassed, and most were quite. The survivors would be asked questions by everyone they ran into and these questions would be as simple as “what did you eat?” to “How did you live without toilet paper?”. Questions like this prove exactly how obvious people around the world were to what was going on in these camps. The survivors more or less would be too annoyed listening to these questions, so most of them opted to stay quite and not talk about anything. My reaction to this movie was disappointment. I could not believe the ignorance people around the world had toward the holocaust. The majority of people had NO CLUE as to the horrors that happened at the camps. I wish that the media informed the public better, and if this was the case, maybe there would have been a better response to stop it before it got as bad as it did.