For this blog I watched the movie Devil's Arithmetic. It begins with a young girl named Hannah, who is Jewish, is celebrating the passover with her family. Her aunt Eva has been through the Holocaust, but yet Hannah does not seem to not care about the holiday of the passover, so her family makes her open the door of "Elijah" When she opens the door it is at is she has gone into the past, as if she has stepped into her cousin Hannhas shoes when they had to live through the Holocaust. Her and her cousin were at a wedding, and the natzeis came and took over the wedding and sent every one of them to a concentration camp. All the women had to have their hair cut off and were removed of their dresses. Each person had an indivudial number tattooed onto their arms. For their food, they were woken up every morning and had a small portion on soup and a stale piece of bread. Everyday, they were all out digging holes in the dirt, they were not allowed to talk cause the soldiers thought it would distract them from their work. If people were diagnosed with any sort of disease they were sent out of their cabin and killed right away.
Going into the camps you are not supposd to be pregnant, a young lady hid her pregnancy and went into the camps. One night she was giving birth and every one had to cover her screaming so that way the soldiers would not find out about it. On that exact same night four men tried to escape and were caught by soliders. The next day, all four of those men were hung and killed. The soldiers eventually found out about the baby being in the womens cabin, the baby along with the mother and another lady were taken and sentenced to death. It turns out, towards the end of the movie, her "cousin" that she was working with, turns out to be her aunt Eva. The soldiers took every person who had the slighest cold or cough and were sent to the gas chambers. Hannah was the one sent to the gas chambers, once she "died" it was as if she was just waking up from a dream. Hannah now knows the whole story of her aunt Eva and respects her relgion alot more that she pretty much lived through it. Hannah was named after her cousin, who she was in her dream, who sacraficed her life for Eva.
I think this was a very good movie. This movie can really show people how life was during the Holocaust, and how terrible it was. It showed all the things that happened to people from them getting hung, to the gas chambers. It shows that even though we did not live through it, we need to respect the fact that it happened and feel special that we never had to go through anything as terrible as the Holocaust.
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Good job Kelsey!