Week 1: Question # 2

4/7/2008

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Elie Wiesel's community did not believe, either due to their geographical isolation or choice, that the Jewish community were being discriminated against or being sent to concentration camps to die. Why do you think the Jewish community or other people living during that time might have had a hard time realizing what was happening?

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Amber
4/7/2008 09:24:46 am

My father's mother who had lived in Germany almost all of her life refused to believe that the German Nazi regime had killed so many of the Jewish population of Europe. She had a hard time believing that the German government and people could be so cruel. From what I understand, a lot of Americans at the time of the Holocaust did not believe the rumors of what was happening in Europe.

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Luke
4/7/2008 09:28:17 am

How do you grasp that your government is coming to kill you, or to lock you away at the very least? I think that if Americans today faced a similar dilemma many would have a hard time believing that their government would curtail their basic human rights because of their religion, or that the world would be sitting back to allow it.

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