Reflections On The Holocaust

 

 

A Similar Story….

 

World War II, also known as the Second World War and abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a global conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. During this time, millions of people were killed for many reasons. One of the reasons for so many deaths is a popular event at this certain period, which is called the Holocaust, also known as the Shoah. This event was a genocide committed against European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its accomplices killed about six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, accounting for roughly two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The killings were committed in camps and mass shootings, as part of a program of extermination against Jewish people.

 

People are still living despite enduring such horrific experiences. Eddie Jaku, an elderly Jewish man who lived in Germany and witnessed all of this, is still tormented by the tragedy, although claiming to have found happiness after many years. Eddie was taken from everything he had on November 9th, 1938, and transported to an area where people were tortured just because they were Jewish or, as I would say, different. We are well familiar with Hitler and the German army, but the implications of other countries sometimes go unnoticed or ignored. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay raises this issue across its pages.

 

Using a fictional character situated in 1942 during the Holocaust roundups, the reader can have a greater understanding of the immense suffering endured by the French Jewish people. Tatiana de Rosnay goes back and forth between the past and the present in her tale. Journalist Julia Jarmon who discovers the story of Sarah Starzynski, a young French Jewish girl, in the present. From what I read, at the beginning of the novel, Sarah's mother and Sarah are forced to go to camps specialized for Jews in France, even though little Sarah doesn't appear to comprehend the conditions, but she can sense that something is wrong as she locks her younger brother in a secret spot. If she thinks that way, it must be her instincts that are alerting her to the danger surrounding her. Her mother, on the other hand, despite her grief, seems to know where they're heading but doesn't know why because her children were all born in France. They should be identified as a people like them, not only Jews, which is critical for their protection. Those cops don't appear to notice the problem here. For them, all Jews are the same.

 

In conclusion, when we examine both stories, Eddie's and Sarah's, we can find the connections between them, which was the objective of my text. Not just establishing ties between them, but also the persecution of Jews at the time. Both are comparable in the sense that they were taken out of their comfort zones for experiencing awful things. Sarah's Key is an intriguing novel, and even though I didn't finish it, I already learned a lot!