Dbq Essay On The Holocaust

Rough times can be very difficult, but there’s always something positive to focus on. Whether it’s the love for your family, laughter, or the small things in nature that make every day ordinary. Now what if this rough time was the Holocaust? What if you had to witness your fellow people getting killed? Do you think you would have time to focus on the positive things in life? The Holocaust was one of the biggest genocides in the world. Over 6,000,000 Jews died but something that helped Jews keep strong was love. Jews were forced to live in the ghettos (places cut off by the Nazi party where only Jews lived) the only thing found in ghettos was sadness and depression, but families still enjoyed themselves once in a while. “Syvia, you are tonic for helping us forget our pain, says papa, and they all smiled at me. Their love fills the air around me and I gulp it down” (Doc. A) Families thought of each other and felt the closes to one …show more content…
You may think how can they have room for laughter? There was nothing they could do except free their minds for a couple of seconds. “From pain your mother gave you life, trough pain she continues to give; papa said. Why? Didn’t I just pop out of my mom’s belly button? I guess I thought these words out loud because suddenly everyone is looking at me and they all BURST Into laughter.” (Doc. A) Some families were German but they still knew the cruelty going on and some were also hiding Jews they still found laughter and they still found a way to have fun even though they could get killed by the Nazi if the found out about their secret. “Give me some Snow. A whole bucket!! For a few minutes they all forgot there was no yelling or calling out, but they could not contain the small snatches of laughter. They were only human, playing in the snow, in a house.”(Doc. C) Laughter was a good way for everyone to free their minds of the cruelty going on in the real