night 3

"our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. we thought only of that. not of revenge, not of our families. Nothing but bread"
This is near the end of the book when they were liberated by the Americans after the whole ordeal. They had been starved time in and time out. worked to the bone. killed, without reason. Beaten, for no reason. Driven insane by the maddening experience they went through. To me, this quote shows what the Germans did to the Jewish people. A people who were connected by families and culture, Reduced to being animals, only caring about food. They were treated like animals by the Nazis and their sympathizers. The holocaust had reduced these people to nothing. Shred of humanitie remained in them. Killing their own fathers for bread. Reluctantly helping ones father while hes sick because it dangers your life too. They had everything that defines us as human stripped away from them without mercy, and the holocaust didnt end the day the nazi party fell and allied soldiers liberated camps. no, The survivers of the camp had to regain their life, and if that wernt hard enough, they also needed to regain their humanity. and even if they regain their humanity, the scars, physically and mentally will remain for the rest of heir lives. Reduced to animals. and the world let it happen.