Descriptive Essay: The Holocaust

Hell is defined by the Bible as a fiery inferno full of endless suffering and agony. Remove the fire and that is the only description that can be given to Auschwitz. I have spent two years rotting in not only in the body but also my heart. Endless hunger atrophied all of my muscles and the death of all those around me by the forsaken Nazi’s hardened my heart to be able to stand the sound of the guns firing as the blasted through the other prisoners, to be able to stand the smell of the burning souls that lie within the crematorium and to be unwavering as I put them in callously shoved them in there. I have given up that foolish emotion that drives people to try and resist no matter how much the odds are stacked against them. That emotion that …show more content…
I nodded. It was the same scene as I’d just seen, only, much dimmer.

“Do you see any differences?” I shook my head.

“But these are German stars. Citizens. Children. Nazis. These are the stars of killers. Of monsters disguised in human flesh ” I didn’t speak. It wasn’t possible.
“All stars are made up of the same thing gas and dust.” He continued on
“There are no differences between us. We are all people. It doesn’t matter how cruel or evil. No matter if how, beaten, battered and empty our existences are, they’re still there. They don’t go away. They’re just the same as you and I. In the end people no matter how malicious they might be are always people ” I stared for a while. The old man had patience. He waited with me. And I watched the sky. Stars lit up and went dark as people came and go. Lit up. Went Dark. Lit Up. Went dark. In a never ending light show… just like ours.

“They made mistakes. Just like you.”

“I never killed anyone.”

“I know that. However we are to move on. Forgive but do not forget. This situation could have been reversed. We could have made the same mistakes as them. In the end we are all human ” I felt hate for this old man surge through my body, and I clenched my

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