JOurnal Enteries

Date: 11 December 2007

Entry Number: 1

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 4

It's absolutely cruel and quite insane what happened to those foreign Jews that were taken from Sighet. One of them Moshe the Beadle managed to escape and came back to Sighet to warn the others what had happened and what was probably to come. Of course no one believed him because he was poor and they thought nothing like that could ever happen which was a big mistake on their part and very narrow minded. The stories that Moshe the Beadle came back with were horrifying. "Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners. Each one had to go up to the hole and present his neck. Babies were thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets..." Moshe also told of this young girl who took three days to die and of a tailor who begged for death right in front of his sons. The Gestapo slaughtered all those people in cruel ways just because they were Jews. It's crazy to think that anyone could be that prejudice. It's really sad that all those people were sentenced to death because someone thought they were better than another. What's even sadder is that this way of thinking still exists in the world today. Those men were extremely cruel and vile and it just amazes me as to how they could be that evil and to do those things to other human beings. It just appalls me.