lit of holocaust
...ecause Martelo 2 we knew that there was shooting going on and people screaming and crying, that it was a slaughterhouse out there.” The author is emphasizing the fact that everyday they lived in fear that they would be taken away to something worse and waited for the thundering of the train hoping that it would not stop for them. The author chooses to remember it in this way because she was wants to emphasize that even though there is beauty where they are there are horrifying events occurring at the same time. The tragic events end up taking over the beauty and the girls all live in worry and fear of what is going to happen to them. The one girl reading the book just wants to be able to finish it. The selection Return To Konin by Theo Richmond, describes Richmond’s trip to Konin, which is a small town in eastern Poland where his parents were born. Richmond remembers his trip there to see a Polish Catholic veterinarian who was in the Polish resistance and had been imprisoned at Mauthausen. The author remembers how the vet was very old and could basically no long here making it very hard for him to answer any of Richmond’s questions. At the end, the vet tells Richmond, “that he, the last, the only one who still lives of those who saw those terrible things, is still here. And he says you are the first to come and see him.” Richmond tells the story this way because he wants to emphasize the fact that some people’s stories do not get told and that all of them should be. Richmond chooses to write a story about him so he is remembered and so his experience gets out there. In Badenheim, Aharon Appelfeld remembers his experience. He is remember how “Only a few days before, they had been sitting in their warm houses, busy with their flourishing practices. Now they were sitting here, without shelter. Everything had been Martelo 3 taken from them; it was like a bad dream.” The author is remember this tragic event and emphasizing how quickly life can change. It seems that many of the characters in the story are confused as to what is going on because one of the characters says, “I didn’t know. I’m sorry. Suddenly everything was taken away from me. They drove me here on the ground that I’m a Jew. They must have meant the Ostjuden. And I’m like you, an Austrian.” The story includes this because Appelfeld wants to show that this did not only happen to Jews. It occurred to non-Jews as well. In the selection from Maus, Art Spiegelman, tells his father’s experiences in the form of comic. In this part, Speigelman’s father is remembering his experiences in the ghetto. Haskal was friends with the Gestapo and played cards with them so his father was able to get out of some difficult situations at times because of his connection with Haskel. Some people living in the ghetto had plans of hiding and smuggling themselves out of the ghetto. They made a tunnel out of shoes and there was enough space for fifteen or sixteen people to hide. His father also includes how his wife became very sad and upset because all of her family was go...