Tuesday 5 February 2013

Prisoner number A26188 - Henia Bryer - Holocaust

 This short film was about the holocaust and was a survivor telling her story about how lucky she was during the holocaust well as lucky as a prisoner can be she spoke of the horrific things that she witnessed and things that they all had to endure such as starvation and lack of clothing.

I found this film to be very upsetting as I knew that the things she spoke about really happened to real people that didn’t deserve it, they were punished purely for their religion. The things that she spoke about were truly sickening things such as having unsafe ammounts of blood taken from them while suffering from severe starvation and illness so that it could be pumped back into the injured german soliders.

Jews of all ages and genders were made to have their hair removed, this was to make them all appear the same, to take away their individuality and identity, this was also to prevent the spread of lice/fleas and the hair was sold off to be used as stuffing for mattresses and pillows.

The Jews were treated like this due to propaganda and mass media, they were made to look inhuman and evil in the media and with the mass amount people began to believe that they were bad and an image of them was portrayed that looked nothing like them and made them out to be monsters for money and sex.

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