“Most people only dream their nightmares. However, I and my fellow survivors actually lived this experience,” said Philip Bialowitz, one of only seven remaining survivors of the Nazi extermination camp, Sobibor, where an estimated 250,000 Jews, including most of his family, were murdered. “We fought hard for our dignity and our lives. The inhumanity of the Nazis knew no limits.”
“Shema” by Primo Levi
You who live secure
In your warm houses
Who return at evening to find
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider whether this is a man,
Who labors in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a crust of bread
Who dies at a yes or a no.
Consider whether this is a woman,
Without hair or name
With no more strength to remember
Eyes empty and womb cold
As a frog in winter.
Consider that this has been:
I commend these words to you.
Engrave them on your hearts
When you are in your house, when
you walk on your way,
When you go to bed, when you rise.
Repeat them to your children.
Or may your house crumble,
Disease renders you powerless,
Your offspring avert their faces from you.
The title of this post is a link to a website about Philip Bialowitz where I got this information. Any response to his story, the movie, the poem?
9 comments:
That poem really makes you think. I also, really enjoyed the movie. I loved how much detail and insight you got into how they lived and who they were.
Wow, powerful poem.
I'm really speechless right now about it.
I really enjoyed watching "Escape From Sobibor". Some of it I just couldn't even imagine what they actually went through. When the little kid went to where the gas chambers were...my body just got tense and I squeezed my hands really tight. It was very frightening. Just think about how the actual people felt. God be with them all.
The movie you showed, Escape from Sobibor, was by far my favorite. The two parts hit me harder than I orginally expected. The scenes in the beginning of the movie where it shows the Jews getting off the train and being seperated into the men and women groups sent chills down my spine for some reason.
Also, the scene were it showed the Jews about to walk into the showers and meet their death just made me want to scream, "don't go in there!"
But overall, i thought it was a great movie. The best so far....
Also,
The movie, "Escape from Sobibor" was one of the best movies, in my opinion, that you have showed so far. Some parts of this movie really really disturbed me. However, I liked how it went into detail and I liked how it told what happened to some of the prisoners after they escaped. I thought it was really sad how some of them just ended up getting killed after experiancing so much. But overall, i really enjoyed it and i thought it was the best so far. :)
"Escape from Sobibor" is a great Holocaust movie. I loved how one of the resistant actions taken against the Nazis actually worked and they weren't able to cover it up completely. People escaped and actually survived to tell their story. Just the fact that the Jews outsmarted the Nazi's shows that Jews weren't who they were said to be. The Jews won an important and impressive victory in the war waged against them.
-Brooke E.
This movie was definately my favorite. I really liked how it went into to detail about it, like you really got the whole story. My favorite part by far is when they're all running through the woods and it tells you what became of them after they escaped. How they made families and everything.
katie
I liked the movie, but I think the tactics were a bit off, and I didn't like how the escapees could shoot 10 or 15 bullets from a 5 round gun the Karabiner 98 Kurz. The Karabiner 98 Kurz is a bolt-action rifle that was adopted as the standard infantry rifle in 1935 by the Wehrmacht, and was one of the final developments in the long line of Mauser military rifles.
I absolutely loved the movie. I think it did an awesome job of showing what life in Sobibor was really like.
I really enjoyed the movie, like so many others in our class. I thought it was the most interesting movie so far. The poem really hit me hard. As Americans, we live in a world where we are spoon-fed everything in life. If our tea is a little bit too sweet or if our steak isn't cooked just right, we whine like little babies. There are millions of people all over the globe who go to bed at night hungry and wondering where their next meal will come from. After reading the poem, I really am more aware of how fortunate I am to live in this great country with all of the blessings that I have, and I have begun to appreciate the daily luxuries that I much more.
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