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Nearly made me cry :(((
I love books set in wwII but none of those books were as raw and detailed as this book.
It went into such detail that I felt so sick and a little bit nauseous but I'm glad it did.
It needs to be detailed because recently I've seen our generation kind of brush of the holocaust as just a school subject.
When I was in high school, I switched schools every year. In year 7, we learnt about the holocaust and then I switched schools and year 8, we learn about the holocaust and so on. I learnt about the holocaust every year for 5 years because of pure coincidence but that made me passionate about history and I excelled in school work when it came to world war II but it also made me realise how copy and paste schools are. Each year for 5 years, I had to learn the same thing, the EXACT same thing. There are 4 terms in a year and in history class, we learnt 4 history subjects a year so we learnt the holocaust for a term but somehow it never went into detail. ever.
They never went into any detail of the sufferers, which I feel like is the most important thing to learn about to make sure this never happens again.
‘they were gassed' ‘they starved' ‘pit of bodies' yes that is horrible but students need to know more than that so they can really learn and feel something. The school system needs to go into detail into how these poor people lived whether it was in camps, their own houses or escapees.
All teachers kept repeating is that millions of people died which just shocks kids with the huge number but I think to make these kids feel something, mention how they were killed, how they were separated from their families, the torture, the forced labour.
Idk I'm just so upset that people now days don't remember the victims of the holocaust.