Berlin Memorial Blog

     There there are many things that I have not known before this activity or assessment that I now have gained knowledge of. I have my opinions of this activity and here they are.

    I learned that there were a lot of different unfair laws that the Jews had to go through even before they were put to death. The laws first start out bad, but not too bad where it would be horrible to live. However, as the years go by the Jews start to lose all of their civil rights. Working revoked, school revoked, pets taken away, then the last stage is lives condemned to death.

     I think this monument was built for a variety of different reasons. First off, the definition of memorial is a structure to remember important events or people. So the main reason I think the memorial was created was to show the Jews who had survived the Holocaust and the Jews who died respect. I think it was built to show the pity of what horrid things the Jews had to go through and is therefore a monument that is basically to show pity for the Jews. 

     I saw that the number of laws didn't really change much. There was basically no correlation between the laws and the years that went by. One year there might be a lot of laws, then another year there might not be a lot of laws, then the year after it goes back to making a high number of laws. One other thing I noticed about the laws was that the more years that went by, the more harsh the laws became.

     The law that I feel would be the most trouble dealing with would be the one to get everyone who is working and organize their arrest. I can only imagine if one normal day of your life that you wake up, go to school, and once you get back home your dad isn't there and everybody at your house is crying or is depressed. That has got to be one of the worst things that could happen in your life. Losing a loved one is one of the hardest things that could ever happen to you, especially if it has no good reason behind it. Sure some people might think that losing their pet is bad and it is like losing a loved one, but imagine actually losing a loved one. That might seem a little cold hearted from me, but it would be harder to lose a relative than to lose a pet. This is all why I think that would be the hardest law to go through.

     In conclusion, I think that I have learned many things from this activity and will most likely help me in the future if someone ever starts talking about the Holocaust or knows somebody who was in the Holocaust.