secution and genocide.You could possibly say something along the lines of "It's like when your dog dies, only a thousand times worse," but that does not really capture the enormity of the situation. Probably everyone has at one time or another felt the basic emotions, such as grief or despair that were such a part of the Holocaust experience. It is the immense magnitude of the feelings that will be hard to envision for people who have never lived through an event as horrible as the Holocaust. Certainly in JS 211, we will learn much about the Holocaust: Who were the bad guys? What motivated them? How was it allowed to happen? What may be a harder, and maybe impossible task however will to put ourselves in the shoes of the Jews or any other group targeted by Nazi Germany in World War Two. It is through no fault of the authors, directors, or lecturers that this failing exist, rather it is the audience. For most of us, being far removed from the Holocaust both socially and historically, is simply too hard to imagine what it would be like to endure such extreme suffering. Surely everyone can sympathize with the plight of Holocaust victims, however to really understand the immense magnitude of the experience without having been there personally requires a knowledge that most just do not have. ...
