How would you react if you were in Anne Frank's situation during the holocaust?
153721
I would have had a mental break down.  I would not have been as strong as she was.
89523
What was the reality about it???? Are you serious?!?! Millions upon millions of jews were systematically murdered by the Nazis- 6 million!!! Can you even fathom how many people that is? Many families were forced from their homes into ghettos where living conditions were grutesque and disgusting. Many families were torn apart, and children saw their parents for the last time as they marched off toward the crematoriums. Groups of Jews were taken to a desolate field, forced to dig a large hole, then were lined up in rows of 5- to then be shot by machine guns to fall into the grave that they dug for themselves!! Many times groups of 100 or more would be shot in this way. The people who were in the second row had to pick up the bodies of the people shot before them and push them into the hole, before they were then shot on the spot. So many Jews were humiliated and made to clean the streets with toothbrushes, or even sweep the streets with their hands after a storm. I hope that you don't deny the holocaust. Everything that happened was very real. I hope you take the time to research the holocaust and to read about some of the atrocities that have taken place from 1939-1945. (Some of these terrible things happened even before the war took place- and a lot of the discrimination was starting in Russia before the war "officially" began.)
783920
I would say first that I'm sorry because they must be very worried but that I could not stand seeing my father get killed nor the dishonour of him staying home. that's why I took the family sword and joined the army.\nI would say that I was frightened first. I felt discouraged, alone and then I found strength and courage in myself thanks to my friends.\nI would say that I discovered that to learn something you had to repeat it until you do it (or know it) perfectly.\nI would say know that I found out that differences between men and me could be softened with the use of my brains and that I am grateful they educated me.\nI would say that friendship is a very strong power. It can overrule prejudice and win every battle.\nI would say that lying is the worst thing you can do to your family and friends because of the pain that you can cause and because you can lose someone's trust when it's the most precious thing in a relationship.\nThen, I would say that I love them and that I'm very happy to be still alive to be able to tell them later all the great adventures I lived.
357426
that would be a most disheartening and emotional moment and i hope it wont ever happen. it would definately depend on the situation. if my best friend was dying in the hospital because of an infection for example, i would shed my tears and hold their hand and just look into their eyes. nothing needs to be said, just an i love you because in that situation it would make sense. but if he just got shot or something i would be heated and screaming nooooo noooooo! and i would avenge their death by killin whoever did it.
3356
Yes, she's a Holocaust Survivor and the University of Michigan has a great oral history with complete transcripts and audio:\n\nhttp://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/webber/
589866
I'd go around acting like a ghost and freaking the shit out of people.\n\nThat would be so funny.
991143
I liked The Hiding Place.  It's about the Holocaust, so be sensitive to that...
548595
THat depends, I would take it to her now, and express your deepest condolences in person. I'm sure she would appreciate it.
125416
She was a young girl who lived in hiding in Holland during World War 2.  Neighbors informed the Nazis on her and her family, and the other people in hiding with them, and they - togethere with the non-Jews who were hiding them - were deported to a death camp, where Anne and almost all the other people who were hiding were murdered.  After they were taken to the concentration camp, someone (I think a woman who had helped hide them) found Anne's diary, which the Nazis failed to destroy when they raided the hiding-spot. Anne's father survived, as I think did the 2 non-Jewish men who helped hide the Jews.  He decided to publish Anne's diary.  It has been translated to many languages, and I believe that it's the second most published book in the world, after the Bible.
880257
I would ask, "Why, despite hundreds of millions of prayers to stop Hitler before he killed 30+ million during WWII, couldn't you slip one little blood clot into his arteries? After all, you turned a good woman unto a pillar of salt for just  looking over her shoulder.".
87028
In My Hands : Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
1111065
I think the FBI would be up their butts in a hares breath! I know my fellow Americans would be outraged at the violence as well as the injustice.\n\nI am appalled right now.
806193
I would shoot myself. If I became so detached to where I didn't know what was going on in my country enough for that to be a suprise...I would not consider myself a viable citizen.\n\nIf I knew it was happening, I would do what I had to do.
511655
I personally worked with a woman who lost her entire family. They were separated and taken to the Belsen camp. Once the Germans could sqezze nothing more out of them, they got on the train for Auchswitz, the main gas murdering site and crematorium. Alot of poor, thin people were shot and thrown into pits full of other corpses, too, besides the gassing. My dear friend Isabella had the tattoo marking her "property of Belsen camp". No one else came out alive. And no, they weren't just taking the Jewish. But hitler was string on meth and he was a megalomaniac. The two don't mix.
618674
AS A JEWISH PERSON I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO BEEN AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM WHEN THEY WERE PROTESTING THERE. AND I WOULD HAVE BITC.H SLAPPED THAT WOMAN SILLY.. I KNOW CHRISTIANS WHO WOULD NEVER DO THE CRUEL THINGS THIS GROUP IS DOING..THEY ARE NOT TRUE CHRISTIANS.. THOSE WHACKED OUT PIGS I AM SURE ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY
631076
It made them see the real truth behind the war. It was a place of horror and a nightmare for those people who had served in the concentration camps and in those who have liberated them. it was an equal relationship between the two. Savior and prisoner. There are no words that could describe the reaction of the troops because it is beyond mere human words. It's seen through the eyes of one prisoner and the eyes of his savior. It was something that was inhumane and unjustified cruelty, and something that no one would EVER had to have gone through or witness. It just made the soldier who liberated the camps see how much more endurance these people have, and the sorrow and pain and torture those Jew's had back then.
576043
i don't think that he would.  he wasn't exactly psychologically sound and actually believed he was doing the right thing.  anyways, if he did, i don't think that the jews would ever accept the regret.  i'm not a jew, so, i shouldn't be answering the second question.