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** Outline:** -Start with a question about experiences -Facts about the Holocaust -Forms of torture and the number of people -Start next paragraph -Talk about the three images -No hope -What the images had in common -How it was not acceptable

Final Draft:
====Have you ever experienced a time in your life where there was absolutely no hope left for you for or for someone else? Where there was no longer a reason to continue living your life because you couldn't? These are some of the reactions that people experiencing the Holocaust felt. Between the years of      1939-1945 people who believed in a different religion or were of a different race were cruelly discriminated against. Over 11 million people were killed in many gruesome and horrible ways. Lies were told and at one point, survivors were told that they were able to take a shower. Instead, their fate was a gas chamber where they would die within minutes. However, as others waited naked in line, they were able to hear the horrified cries from their family members or others just like them whose liberty was also taken away. ====      The three images above are of people who most likely never came in contact with each other. However, they share one thing in common, no hope. The fear in their eyes, the confusion, wondering what they did wrong or if they would ever see their family and friends again. These pictures make me feel depressed. I wonder how anyone in the world could look at these people and think that they can determine if they can continue to live their lives based on if they are able to work. There is no reason in this world that can make the disgraceful deaths of millions of people acceptable.

AND How do the Jews of Sighet react?** The first signs of trouble are when all the foreign Jews are taken away from their town. Moshe the Beadle comes back to tell the story of his experience over the past few months. He claims that once they got to their destination in the forest, the Jews were told to dig multiple graves, not knowing that they would become their own. Soon after, they were executed in the most cruel order. Moshe the Beadle explains that he barely escaped with a minor leg wound from a gunshot. The Jews of Sighet think nothing of it and go on with life as if nothing had happened. The Gestapo soon show up and divide Eliezer's home into two ghettos. All is well until the order for deportation is sounded. The Jews are made to pack up and leave there homes to be sent to a secret destination. The Gestapo often resort to the hitting the Jews with their guns.
 * What are the signs of trouble?

 After thinking about each sign of trouble and how they could affect the minds of the Jewish people, I realized that they would not affect them at all. The media was telling them not to be worried about anything and that the war was going to be over soon. I guess that the Jews just overlooked the signs that lay right before their eyes. If the Jews were able to comprehend the news that Moshe the Beadle had brought to their attention them maybe the futures of millions would have been entirely different.  The Jews of Sighet ignored the tales of Moshe the Beadle, taking him for a mad man seeking pitty from others. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">   <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">  When the Gestapo come they became frightened but after a while, the Germans living with them just become another part of their lifestyle. The Jews of Sighet soon go about things as if all is well. The Jews finally start to get worried when they are all evacuated from their homes and are made to travel to a secret destination in cattle cars. They are completely unaware of what lies ahead of them. After reading this section, I had many mixed feelings. I was somewhat annoyed with the fact that the Jews of Sighet did not listen to Moshe the Beadle. He is an honest and well known man where Eliezer and his family live and there is no reason why the Jews couldn't believe him. On the other hand, it was hard for people to choose who to believe because radios and other sources of communication told the Jews that the war was going to be over soon and that they had nothing to be worried about. The Jews did not know how to comprehend the almost random news that Moshe the Beadle had brought back from his long trip. Who is Madame Schachter? Madame Schachter is a fifty year old woman with a husband a three sons. She was seperated from her husband and two eldest sons when the Jews were being deported, a very sad mistake. Throughout the trip, she had gone completely mad. In the middle of the night she would say that she could see a fire burning in the night but when everyone got up to see the flames there was nothing there.
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I feel very sad for her because i think she was telling the truth the entire time. I think she is physcic and could see that in the future there would be flames.

AND What happens to her?** Madame Schachter gets hit and gaged multiple times throughout the train ride. When everyone <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">   <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> THESE ARE VERY CLEAR AND THOROUGH NOTES. I WOULD STILL LOVE TO SEE YOUR REACTIONS. MS. N.