Preparing

I sit here at my computer thinking, where could I possibly start. We are in the middle of a journey, that I don’t think any of us will forget. We sit in class and learn about one of the most unforgettable things in our world’s history and try and grasp what happened. The hardest part about spending hours on end trying to understand how this could happen, and trying to understand the man behind it all, is knowing that I will never be able to fully grasp it. No matter how long someone has studied the dynamics of the Holocaust, no one can feel, or comprehend fully what life was like, because with out the shared feelings of those people, you can’t possibly understand fully. It’s one thing to spend a whole year going through every event and every detail of the Holocaust and another actually going to these places we have read about. I was asked by a fellow student’s parent “How are you going to prepare yourself for something like this?”, the question took me by surprise at first, but now that I have thought about it, I can’t prepare myself. None of us can possibly prepare themselves to walk into something of this intensity. Knowing how hard it is to read, and visit museums about these events I can’t possibly imagine how, not only I, but all of us, will react and feel.

-Jasmine Hooks