Auschwitz Birkenau

Source: I Survived 20th Century Holocaust

The facility itself was huge but all of the camps put together were just astonishing. This picture reminds me of Ellie Wiseal's "Night" in many ways but mostly the way he talked about how large it was. It just shocks you at how vast and large this place was and no one knew what was going on inside of it. In the book Night, he talks about how it took them four hours to get to a different part of the camp. This place had to be absolutely huge. This picture is only of the Birkenau camp in Auschwitz, and yet look how large it looks. It still amazes me that they had camps running of this size and proportion and no one says that they were aware of the killings taking place at the time. The view of the camp almost reminds me of a prison, but it is almost as if Jews were imprisoned to a point.

Children of The Holocaust

Source: Isreal's Children

This picture said a lot to me first glancing at it because the lack of emotion on the children faces. There is one boy on the right that is crying which I'm sure this was rare. The children had the same expected of them that the adults did. Yet, a lot of times the children were killed immediately. None of these children look to be over the age of maybe twelve. It just strikes you looking into their faces and seeing their blank stares. At a time when they should've cried, should've showed they were upset and fearful, they acted as if nothing was wrong. They almost expected the children to act as if they were adults.

Racial Hatred of Jews

Source: Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project

This picture itself says a lot of the entire holocaust. Just the mass pile of bodies, wasted down to absolutely nothing. Just the stench alone had to be awful from all the dead bodies. The fact that the whole race of German people though this was acceptable or just weren't aware of the vast amounts of murders astonishes me. It only took Hitler about fifty-two days to take over a country. That in itself is amazing. I think the biggest reason that this went on was because a lot of people were scared to say anything back to Hitler or his army. This picture just shows in the faces of the people the lack of emotion and cold and hardened they'd became to death.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I believe that Mr. King was probably one of the most inspirational people I have ever read about or heard of. He believed in equality and fighting in what he believed for without being violent. I think that more people need to be educated on on Dr. King did and his life story itself. Everyone for the most part knows Martin Luther King for one of three things: The Civil Rights Movement, The"I Have a Dream" Speech, or his "Letters from Birmingham Jail". Most people don't know that his grandfather was the pastor and started up the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Alanta, Georgia. Him and his father also served as pastors at the church. Dr. King not only was a very educated man (which at the time this was nearly unheard of because of his race) but he graduated from high school at the age of fifteen. He had studied the Ghandi philosophy in college and he used that approach in his campaign for civil rights. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When told of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the help of the civil rights movement.On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated. I believe this country would be a much better different place if he hadn't been killed over something so meaningless.