Immersion Novel Final Post

From reading my novel, The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank, I collected a ton of knowledge about the Holocaust. One piece of that knowledge is the fact that the Jewish weren't exactly alone, they had help, only sparsely, though. Through the black market and certain Germans, they could be hidden and be able to buy necessary things to live through the black market with their own form of currency. I also learned that experiencing the war and desolation of it all became a usual thing that the Jewish people ended up getting used to, as Anne Frank grew into the constant bombing, but was still slightly surprised unpleasantly by that. Perpetrators were all of the men who took place in getting the Jews to concentration camps, as the collaborators were the supposed "tattle-tales", those who gave away hiding spots. What happens at the end of my book is that Anne writes her last entry, and was sent to a concentration camp. This shows how the Holocaust was not all happy endings at all, people died and families were split.

Memorials and Emotions

The memorial that had the most impact on me was easily the Sculpture of Love and Anguish at the Miami Holocaust Memorial. Despite the fact that it isn't being seen in person, it has a powerful effect within the view of it. The memorial is of a hand splayed out and reaching from out of the ground, made of figures of human beings who seem to be seeking a way out. The health and being of the figures themselves strung a lot at my emotions. The humans seem to be extremely skinny, starved almost, and some are young children! There is a huge age range here, making you feel... 'woah' in all different ways. I think that this memorial is symbolizing the fact that the Jewish people were all part of each other through the horrific event of the Holocaust. The memorial also has the numbers carved into it, showing how that specific hand is a Jewish person's hand. In all, it exaggerates the connection between the people, putting aside the pain infliction and hurt, physical and mental.

Anne Frank #2

In the novel, or rather diary, The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank herself doesn't have multiple visible or blatant inhumane characters at all. There is one woman, Mrs. Van Daan, who does act inconsiderate and slightly inhumane, but she never abuses the others. She is occasionally cruel to Anne, it seems mostly out of anger at herself or what's going on in the world. Mrs. Van Daan is possibly jealous of Anne in her adolescent beauty. The Nazis and German officers themselves are extremely inhumane. Anne was telling about how the officers would search houses, and if Jewish were found, them and the whole family had to leave the house and go with them to the concentration camps. Margot (Anne's sister) was supposed to go to a concentration camp, but they evaded that fate, leaving a mark on them and leading to potential death if found. Anne speaks more about the humane things rather than the inhumane acts. People have started a black market for the Jewish, having their own currency so that the people who are in hiding can survive. That is extremely humane, and shows how everybody has each other's back, for the most part. The house that Anne and her family takes shelter in is very humane. They submitted a sheet, a sheet to accept more people to where they are. That's extremely considerate of them. The overpowering of acts of humanity over the inhumane acts show how no matter how bad things get, there will always be more rescuers than perpetrators in the end.