First off, I found this interview to be extremely emotional and I think that no matter how many times were learn or talk about the holocaust, none of it does any Justice to how bad this period of hatred really was. It was saddening to hear some of the stories Mr. Somogyi shared.
1. The desensitization of dead bodies that Mr. Somogyi developed really demonstrated how many people were dying in these concentration camps as well as how these camps impacted the Jewish people psychologically.
2. Another thing that was hard to hear was how these people were stripped of everything that made them human and how their identity became the number that was put on their arms. I cannot imagine how someone would feel if they lost all sense of how they were and their entire people were under attack.
3. I think one of the saddest parts of the interview was when Mr. Somogyi told us how he didn't get to say goodbye or talk to his mother and sister again before they were killed. To have a family member taken away at the blink of an eye would be something that you don't recover from.
4. Another brutally hurtful story that Mr. Somogyi shared in the interview was how his faith in god was shaken and he wasen't sure god was real anymore because he believed that god would have never allowed anything like this to happen and god would not have let his mother and sister be taken to the gas chamber to die. This is mortifying and this story reflects how the Nazis did everything to completely annihilate any sort of hope or belief in these camps.
5. Finally, coming into the camp and smelling rotting human flesh and seeing bodies littering the ground is an image that just picturing it is terrible but to be in that situation and realizing that this was going to happen to you, its unbelievable.
