One Day in Auschwitz: Beyond the Facts and Figures - The Story of Hart-Moxon and Why the Holocaust Should Never Be Forgotten Anonymous 11th Grade

Beyond all the facts that she told, what was most fascinating about what Kitty said during "One Day in Auschwitz," is that she considered Auschwitz, which many describe as hell on earth, as “home.” Obviously, most have never experienced anything close to the Holocaust in their lives. But most could never truly comprehend how a tweenager could consider such an awful and inhumane place to be home, a place that in a perfect world is warm and nice.

Interestingly, we learn in the documentary that the Nazis had to follow the established legal system and couldn't send some of the Jews and other so-called undesirables to the concentration camps without legal recourse. Of course, the legal system aligned with the Nazis – otherwise the judges would be shot. However, it would be reasonable to say that a great number of people thought the Germans threw the Jews into the camps without as much as a second though. They hated them and wanted them to die or serve as back-breaking slave labor before they were too weak to work and thus, killed. The audience also learns that the Germans used the Jewish hair that they shaved from new prisoners to make cloth and more curiously, to line Nazi German submarines and to make detonators. It’s ironic. The...