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His life changed every single day. He moved concentration camps 8 times which meant he never got to be settled. He never knew what was going on. The Germans only told them where to go but never told them why.

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Three of the major takeaways that I have learned from Bernard Igielski's testimony was...
1. How bad the health and living condition was during the holocaust and how many of the Jews and how may of the soldiers where dehumanized because of the things they would like how they would risk others for their own survival. Many of the Jews got sick and may had diseases from not eating and from the horrendous things they had to go through.
2. I also learned about the death march and how the Jews were clueless into know what they were going into. They never knew how many people would die and they thought about themselves during this time so when they did many people trampled over one another and left others behind so they could survive. The March was very violent and inhumane and probably left many people traumatized.
3. Also many people lost their families because they were either split up or they did not make it. Sometimes kids or even adults would betray and leave their family members behind for survival. During this time because they got crazy and forgot who they were and it made them do anything so they would not die. People forgot their moral values when it came to their own life.

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1st take away I had was about how he didn't cry. He did stop for a moment and say "it gets hard sometimes" but he never took more than a breath or two to himself. I wondered the whole time "how many times has ge had to tell these storys?" To the point where he barly crys while recounting his experience with actually torture.

anothe rthing I noticed was how he was off script. He didnt write anything down, he was just speaking of what he rembered. He had rven mentioned haw he got side tracked and at the end how hed forgotten to mention a few things. He stuttered and stumbled a lot too. I dont know, his whole engry was off. Which I can't blame him for, obviously, but it was interesting.

Last thing I noticed was how he reacted to being free. He was so filled with angry that he couldnt really be happy with being free, not fully. Clearly, I've never been in a situation like his, but I understand that angry can ruin a good thing, even once your not in the sitiation. Angry is heavy and lingers for a long time, and it takes lots of work in order to handle it. Im glad he decided to try and work on his hatred in order to enjoy his life, and it seems to me like he did. I hope that for myself one day.

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- The conditions in Germany were indescribable. It was so brutal and to the point, people were laughing at other people when they were dying because they were so desensitized and felt no hope or reason to live.

- He lost his parents overnight and had to eat carrots off the ground that he found and it was hard for him to talk about his overall experience

- the Jewish people were almost completely dehumanized

- His surviving was an extremely lucky thing

- His entire time in Germany was a "death march"

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1. I learned how difficult his living situation and how he went to eating snails and buried carrots that have been there for who knows how long
2. I also realized that even though they were free they still felt like they weren't because throughout the process they lost people and their mental stability which was what caused them to feel like this
3. He said he needed to let go of his anger and frustration because it would destroy him and break him down which benefited him

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It reminded me how dehumanizing people can be. The constant loss that the Jewish people when through really shows how that just because your different doesn’t mean that your better. The constant moving from camp to camp and see your family members taken away from you must have been really hard. People now of days take everything for granted and don’t realize how much we have now compared to back them.

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1. In the video he talks about how bad his  living conditions were, he got so sick that he ended up getting scarlet fever, when he was hungry he had to eat snails and carrots that have been buried for a long time.
2. He also talks about after he was free it felt like he wasn't free because he lost everyone around him and he resented the whole world for what he had gone through during the concentration camp
3. At the end of the video he says that he learned to let go of that resentment because it would destroy him in the end and learned to appreciate the good things in life like that fact that he got married, had two children, and has four grandchildren.

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1) The man said that when he herd other peoples story's about the same thing he went through it humbled him because other people went through stuff that was worse than him.

2) even though he had so much hate in his heart because of what he went through he still went to live with the Germans to understand them and it helped him

3)he did not want help or to get into a program because he did not want people telling him what to to he wanted to be free but later joined the is army and have a wife kids and grand kids. he was strong enough to put his past behind him and not let his past become him

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1. During the death march the Jews had no idea where they were going, why they were going or how long it was going to last, they lived in a state of not knowing anything which is extremely terrifying to even try to wrap your head around.
2. Igielski and many other Holocaust survivors even when freed from the physical torture they couldn't be freed from the mental torment from the things they had seen and experienced.
3. The last and most important thing I learned is that resentment is not to be held onto, Igielski said he felt anger towards the entire world even after he was "free", but after overcoming his anger he could have a family and be happy again.

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1) the conditions in Germany during the time were brutal and they laughed at death and wanted to die rather than living in those conditions.
2)In times like those people can become insensitive and like the man he said that he resented his parents and he didnt trust anyone and lived in hate for a while.
3)he was extremely lucky to be able to survive when so many others didnt make it

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1.) As he is talking about how they were sent to the ghettos and then to the camps, his voice was shakey and he had to pause a few times. Since the beginging of the camps it was highly tramatic to everyone there.
2.)  He came close to death many times it was a lot of luck that him and all of the others survived.
3.) Even while people were escaping to the Americans, the SS were still killing many jews. After he was free he says that he never felt free due to the resentment and hate he had towards the world and everyone in it.

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A big thing that i gained was that your whole life can change in a single day or night. He said that his parents were killed when he was asleep overnight. He also said that he was transferred to ghettos often before being sent to Auschwitz.

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1.What I got from the video was how he didn't think it could be real and how it was really lucky how he survived since he almost faced death
2.How crazy some people can be just because some guy blame a whole war on one race and since everybody's morale was low around that time they went to blame the Jews since their was no one else to blame
3.How even though  its different people they almost went through the same thing, concentration camps,the hunger the lack of thirst and death
What my takeaway from the video and the main point of the holocaust is if people have just lost a war and are still going through a great depression or if they suffer something dramatically bad they would look to someone for lead doesn't matter what their point is if everyone's moral ls low they will have to look for someone to lead

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1.)When there were very few of them they went from camp to camp while the Americans were getting closer
2.) They marched for weeks with no food, water, or any knowledge of where they were going
3. They would rest during the day, still nothing to eat

These points make me feel kind of bad and empathetic towards them

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After hearing the interview, what stood out to me was how he paused and talked about how “it wasn’t easy”. Referring to what he was talking about. He said he faced death numerous times and how he struggled to find food. When hearing stories like this it can expose us to new things we may not have known before. We can empathize with others and not continue the cycle of indifference.

-Jasmine B. 4A

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1) the man shows that even if you have lots of luck, if you can’t deal with your emotions especially strong ones it hard to ever truly feel “free”
2) the man also shows a different perspective because while Eli had his father to keep him going this man lost his parents very early on and yet still had determination to keep going
3) overall it all came down to luck weather people survived or not

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Seeing this in a video that wasn't taken too long ago forces me to realize how recent this was. It didn't happen too long ago as we might think. He was forced to watches as thousands of people he may have been close to die in the first few days. He sat through endless hunger and watched as the people he cared for slowly lost themselves as he may have lost himself. I personally dont feel much when reading this because even though it was a true story I can only imagine it as a story. I can relate to some of these feelings of numbness and loss but since I have never been in this position I feel I cannot relate to it for even if you think you know what of how someone may feel the truth is you just know a part and not the whole.

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Many people lose their families very suddenly and unexpectedly.
Despite being refused necessities such as food and water, some died not because of the lack of food and water but illnesses or being killed by the SS.
Any survivors suffer from the memories of their experiences and never let's go of the memories despite the pain it bring them either for themselves or the people who didn't make it to the present.

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Elie was very lucky to have survived the death March. Most of the people died on the way, either from hunger, because they did not give them food, exhaustion from the constant running, thirst, or anything else. The book illustrated this really well, because it drew out the time it took to talk about it with specific examples, and gave character names to latch onto. If Ellie didn’t give these examples, I don’t think I could’ve sympathized with it. I also think that we are reading it to fast. I am not able to immerse myself into the book fully, but I have a feeling that if I read this in my own time, it would hit different. The video helped to show the emotions better than the book though, because you could hear him talking instead of reading it and projecting tone onto it.

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His life changed every single day, parents died instantly so he had nobody but himself, was involved in the death march and had to resort to eating carrots and snails but I don’t feel anything towards this. I feel like being numb towards these things is normalized in today's society because of how normalized war is in today’s world.

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More people need to know of what the Jews really experienced from the war. Many people think they were just killed but there is way more to it. They suffered a whole lot and people nowadays need to be grateful for what we have.

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More people need to know of what the Jews really experienced from the war. Many people think they were just killed but there is way more to it. They suffered a whole lot and people nowadays need to be grateful for what we have.

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He loses his parents very early on unlike how with Elie had his dad for most of the event.

I don’t feel too much but I do feel bad for the people and disgusted about the actions made against them.  I don’t usually feel much when reading or watching movies

It’s amazing how these survivors persevered and survived

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He was talking about what he was going through during his time at ukraine but there is a lot of behind the scene things he didnt touch

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Seeing him talking put more of an image in my head of how real the story is and his emotion he shows while he was telling the story gives me a better sense of how hard it is for the survivors. -Lucy F

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I feel like this story would connect to the war that’s going on now and I am very interested in this story, I also think it’s connected to the war because the people are being punished for no reason.

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-Reminding yourself when reading that this was a real life event, can give you kind of a realization. Because when reading this it sounds like a story but you have to remind yourself this happened and it was real
-It makes me realize how crazy some people can be, to put other humans through something so dehumanizing that it doesnt sound real, its terrifying
-Seeing survivors speak about what they went through in color on your phone can help set in how not long ago this was

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- Just because you are free and safe from something you hate, doesn’t mean it’ll all be forgotten. That is something that will stick with you forever.
- People who are ignored feel nothingness, and that is a feeling worse than death, which is unimaginable.

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i couldn't really understand what he was saying but i feel like our generation is numb because so much goes on and people are used to trauma

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he lost his parents over night, he had to eat carrots that he found in the ground, and it was hard for him to talk about. i don’t really know how to feel about his experience because i didn’t have to got through it but at the same time i feel bad because he went through it, it’s a lot to process and you gain a lot of trauma from those type of experience’s

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1.) the dude in the testimony said he was filled with hate towards everyone but still lived with the Germans for 4 years
2.) the Jewish people became super dehumanized towards everything
3.) I feel bad for the Jews and everything they went through

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1. It was just luck if you survived or not
2. If you hate you will never be happy
3. Human can do most anything that they set their mind to

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His experience has definitely stayed with him and probably will for the rest of his life. I feel like when your surrounded by hate and violence it changes your whole view on how you see things, and that’s why I think He was so angry at the world and people because hate is what he’s used to. It also shows how the concentration camps dehumanized many people, and I’m disturbed by that.

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Three things I took away from the interview:
1. That then surviving was complete luck
2. Hate can eat up your insides and drive you mad
3. Humans can survive anything if they have the determination

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I don’t really feel a whole lot right now. I’m not really vulnerable to a lot right now, today.

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I feel bad about it but i don’t feel attached to it at all. I definitely don’t think that anyone should be treated with the type of disrespect and hatred that the jewish people faced during the horrible times

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This survivor's life changed drastically from day to day. He became an orphan overnight, and his parents were nowhere to be found once he woke up from his sleep. He lost all of his possessions in seconds. Bernard got sick with Scarlet Fever and was even chosen for selection. He talks about marching for two weeks and never receiving any information on where they were going, or any food or drinks. He would eat raw snails and dig up carrots from the ground. Bernard had seen the Germans in concentration camps kill the Jewish people with a smile on their face which traumatized him. He is extremely thankful for surviving through the Holocaust and living freely.

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His parents died overnight, he was taken to a concentration camp without knowing what was happening, Through several camps he managed to survive all of them, he was lucky to survive. The biggest takeaway is that freedom is something that not everyone has and that people who have freedom should appreciate it.

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There was so much stuff to take in as a young teenager, he became an orphan overnight. All of a sudden he was taken away to a concentration camp, with no knowledge of what was going on or what was next. Desperation and survival took over and he luckily was one of few who survived. Through 8 camps he managed to survive past all of them. The biggest takeaway is freedom is never guaranteed and that you should always appreciate the privileges of your life and surrondings.

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He became an Orphan overnight, his entire time in Germany was "a dead march", and the prisoners knew no information. My biggest take away was, just being "a free man" doesn't mean you are free. you can have your freedom, but you aren't free from your emotions.

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- There were many times when he almost died, but he was extremely lucky and survived everything.
- He was full of hate when he was saved. He said that he wasn't really free because his hate was weighing him down.
- There were many things he had seen for a young teenage boy. And he said it was a lot to endure, but he had to do it in order to survive.
-Sinai

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What were three of the major takeaways that you gained from Bernard Igielski's testimony in "Surviving a Death March"? Your takeaways can be lessons that you learned, personal reflections, or main events that you remember from his story.