One article that I found absolutely interesting was Emily's! Her article was about the mis-documentation of death and concentration camps. She explained that there was a postwar estimate of 7,000 concentration camps during the Holocaust. Though years later it was found that there were actually around 42,500 concentration camps run throughout the Holocaust. I found this incredible because there were actually 6 times as many camps as it had originally been thought that there were, which is huge! It's not like there was an estimated 9,000 concentration camps and there were actually 10,000. It went from 7,000 to 42,500 when it was all said and done, which effected other statistics about the holocaust as well, like the death estimate! Obviously if there were more camps, there were going to be more deaths! So, if the number of camps was 6 times more than what was originally thought, then there would be 6 times the deaths. This would shine a whole new light on the Holocaust because it would show people that the Holocaust was so much more widespread, and did so much more damage than some people could've ever imagined! I found it so interesting that the numbers were so off, and it must've given people a new view of the Holocaust who had seen the first numbers, and then the new ones!
Another article that I found interesting was Citlalli's and Bela's articles about Joseph Mengele. Joseph Mengele was a man who performed medical experiments on the people in death camps. He was most well known for working with twins. He would breed twins, after twins, after twins, after twins, in the hopes of somehow creating a new dominant species, an "Aryan Super Race." When twins were not produced, Mengele would rip the child from the mother's womb, and throw him or her into the fire. Though sometimes he would keep the child to perform other experiments on them, like seeing how long they could go without food until they starved. In the end, Mengele was responsible for the murder of 400,00 Jews, an enormous number! It's crazy to think that just this one man killed that many people doing "medical experiments" which were just another excuse to kill Jewish people! Imagine all of the other men and women who performed medical experiments on the prisoners in the other death and concentration camps! I find this to be disgusting though. Twins were the only ones Mengele ever wanted to breed, which is wrong in itself. Though the fact that if twins are not produced he harms the newborn baby, makes me feel sick to my stomach. It's hard and heartbreaking to believe the cruelty!
Other than these two articles that I enjoyed learning about, there were so many others as well! Carlos had an article about how there are meet ups for Holocaust survivors of specific camps to meet the people that liberated them, though how those meetings may be coming to an end with the last Holocaust survivors growing very old. Elenia had an article from a child's perspective I believe, about their mother's experience with the Holocaust, and how even after she was liberated, she could not celebrate her freedom because so many people still strongly hated and discriminated against Jews for up to another four decades. I also learned from Diego about a survivor of the concentration camp Auschwitz, Ivor Pearl, who was one out of two of his eight siblings that survived the Holocaust on only one piece of bread a day! All of these articles really taught me so much and shined a new light on the Holocaust for me personally. It's absolutely absurd to see how terribly all of them were treated, and I had no idea the Holocaust was quite as abominable as I thought it was!
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