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Lesa wrote: "I think it might be harder to be the one who survives. I've met several Holocaust survivors, and one of them in particular is probably the saddest, most bitter human being I've ever met (and I'm no..."
HHMM----makes sense! I think it would be harder to carry on--too.
HHMM----makes sense! I think it would be harder to carry on--too.
This book helped open my eyes to see what thousands of people went threw and then to be alone even worse. But she had the guy to go back to and thy made it threw. I think that ppl who servivid these event take life a a gift day by day. They know what it is to lose everything. So they are more guarded ppl.
like the bald man said, he prayed for death every day and it didn't come to him, he wanted to die...but ultimately, I believe, that those who survive have something they need to do. I talked to a Holocaust survivor in high school and he said that he started having nightmares about 20 years after he was released from the camps, but when he told his children about what happened, those nightmares went away. Now he travels (or at least he did) talking about his experiences
Dee wrote: "like the bald man said, he prayed for death every day and it didn't come to him, he wanted to die...but ultimately, I believe, that those who survive have something they need to do. I talked to a ..."The bald man could be rude and discouraging to those around him---there were glimpse that he could have been a better man than what he acted. I tend to believe that Death will choose not to come get those that are evil spirited, so that they may walk the earth even longer in their own misery. Not to mention, the bible says something to that effect.
Talking now after reading or before readin the book I would say to it would be easier to survive.but while reading the book and reading all the pain those families have been through I would definitly say surviving is harder.
Thank you for so sensitive family story, I was under great impression ... as it is so close to the story of our (mine, my husband's, relatives ...)families. It reminds with us forever ... appreciating Ruta's feelings and relations with parents and all the family.
I think it would be harder to be the one who survives. I mean, once you are dead, you're dead. But if you survive you are still going to have to remember watching all those people die, and you will probably miss all these family members, etc.
Both are equally difficult because you have so much will to survive but also like the old mean man said, fear is what stops him from dying. The fact that he wanted to die so much but could`t is something hard on a human mind. But when you know your want to live surviving is whole other thing.Also i meant the author and she is awesome!
Death is usually easier. It's only harder to die when you know you will be leaving your family/loved ones. If they are dead too, then what's the point of holding on? ...To tell your story? Yes, certainly. To start over, to learn to live a new life? Absolutely. But, where are you, WHO are you without the one's who love you?
who is going to remember your loved ones if you don't survive. When all they are is a memory to you, who are you going to entrust with your memories to make sure that their story is told
It would definitly be harder to survive, but after you're a better person and look at life in a different perspective. Surviving would be harder, but so much better. Dieing would be short and sweet, but I would not have wanted to died for too many reasons to count.
I would hate to be a survivor and watch my family die.
Selfish? How do you figure? If you're the one who survives it's because you struggled and fought and held on and tried to get others to do the same, but maybe they couldn't. If you were one who died, you definitely had nothing to do with that! The people doing the murdering were in charge of that. To answer the question, I'd want to survive and make sure people knew what really happened. If my entire family died and I was the only one left, I don't know how I would do it, but I would have to try.
If we're rating the book, it was an awesome eye-opening experience. So little these days is told of this side of things. We hear the word Holocaust and automatically think of Hitler and the Jews. But there was an equally evil entity named Stalin who also killed millions of people for no other reason than his own ego.
Dee wrote: "like the bald man said, he prayed for death every day and it didn't come to him, he wanted to die...but ultimately, I believe, that those who survive have something they need to do. I talked to a ..."This post gave me goose bumps because I just learned a quote,"Tell the truth and it becomes a part of your past. Tell a lie, and it becomes a part of your future." So, I think when you share your story or pain it is so cathartic/healing that it eases your pain, at least a little bit, so it can become a part of your past.
My father in law and my husband's grandmother survived Stalin's labor camps, however grandfather did not.
I think surviving when your family did not would be very hard. It would fall to you to make sure your family's story is told and heard so that their deaths were not in vain. The survivors and their stories are amazing I am not sure many people today would be able to face such hardships with the courage and determination like Lina was able to do.
I think it would be harder to survive bacause if I were to die I would hava at least known that I did all that I could to keep my family safe and if I were to survive then that means that I could have tryed even harder to keep my loved ones safe.
From the perspective of the mother, I think it would be harder to die knowing she was leaving her children behind in that hell. Also, I think it would be hard to die, knowing you never really had a life. Lina was so young and to die not being able to study art, love, get married, have children and tell her families story would be hard to do and would be a reason to live.
To die and to survive are equally hard.
It is hard to pick out of the two, my first choice will be to die but the other one seems just as painful.
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No matter your choice, you will seem selfish.