Holocaust-Expository Writing

By: Aaron Vukelic
Holocaust-Expository Writing
Directions:
Imagine Erica, Peter or Daniel's mother are still alive. Pick one of the three characters and ask yourself, "What questions would you like to ask the character?” Explain why your questions are important to you. Tell the character what you've learned and how you feel after hearing their story. If you can relate her experiences to any conditions facing your generation, explain those connections. Describe for the character what you will do to teach future generations the lessons you've learned from studying the Holocaust.

The person I chose to do is Daniel’s mother. The first question I would like to ask is how does it feel to lose a loved one to the likes of Hitler? Another question I would like to ask Daniel’s mother is how do you feel about the German race today? One more question I would like to ask is how did it feel to watch all those people die? My last question is what were you thinking when you were split apart from Daniel and Daniel’s father? These questions are important to me because I have wanted someone to answer these questions since I have read “Daniel’s Story”. I feel these are the most important questions to know the answers to. I have learned about one of the darkest times in history known as the Holocaust. I have learned how Adolf Hitler took over many countries and how he discriminated the Jewish population from the German race forcing them into ghetto’s, death camps, and work camps with no one to rescue them until the day had come that the Russian’s had gotten enough information to form an attack on the Germans to free what was left of the Jewish population. I have learned how Jewish people were killed and tortured and how cruel the guards were. I have learned that the guards were not mean people but were normal people who only did it because they needed to provide food for their families. I learned what the swastika meant and I had learned why the Holocaust had started and how it ended. I feel that I am quite happy and sad because Daniel and his father and Rosa had escaped but his loved ones and friends did not. I will teach the younger generation by telling them stories, showing them pictures and videos and reading them novel’s about the Holocaust. I will show them what happened in the camps and even outside the camps. That is how I will teach the future generations.