Because of Romek Final Post

2008-06-12T19:43:00.000-07:00

1 To me the most disturbing part was when he had to watch his family get shot when the Nazis walked right in and just shot them all except he crawled under the couch so his life was spared. If that every happened to me I don't know if I could ever survive the rest of the Holocaust. That chapter made me think how lucky I am that nothing like that has happened to me.

2 David's job of feeding the dogs was way better then all the other prisoners. Because he got to steal some of the dogs food while he was feeding them. He could also bring biscuits back and share them with his friends at night.

3 Camp Bergen-Belsen was really bad everyone who was strong pulled the dead from the buildings to the furnace the people who were too weak and were either dying of starvation or typhus. Near the end of the war David started getting typhus and he was getting weaker and weaker every day. By the time the British came he was almost going to die but he survived.

4 I think that the most triumphant moment was when he survived being sent to the furnace. Throughout the book his intelligence helps him stay alive like when they were making the prisoners bath in the acid he thought of plugging his nose and ears so he wouldn't inhale the acid and die. He ended up surviving in the end and not giving up which I think was his biggest triumph.

5 David Faber's book, Because of Romek, should be required reading in all middle schools, high schools, and universities because all students need to learn about the horrors of the Holocaust. If people know about the horrors and crimes that the Nazis committed then something like the Holocaust will never happen again. Everyone hears that there were six million Jews killed but it losses its impact because it's such a large number that it is hard to believe. Or they see pictures of starved prisoners at the time of liberation in the camps and it seems like they are so old that it doesn't relate to now. Only if you read a personal account then you will be able to understand how horrific that number is. Some of the horrible things the Nazis did are in the book like when they just gassed people without caring that they were taking away some one's life. They starved prisoners to death, tortured people, and burned the dead bodies and made the new prisoners drag the bodies of people that sometimes they knew into the furnace. Reading the book and hearing David Faber speak brings the horrors to life in way that cannot be done without read or hearing it from a primary source.

Gabe

Because of Romek Final Post