It was surprising to find out that the Nazis forced the artists to paint"lovely" picture as postcards to families. Not only did they paint but that they had to lie about how their life was being mutilated. It takes the book "Night" and puts it into a different perspective. Many people know a lot about the Holocaust due to school lessons, books, and movies. It is difficult to put too much emotion or too much of yourself into the facts because of the pain one hears, sees, and feels because of the truth of the horrid treatment of people. People cannot imagine how their own life could be like that without being in that situation. The joy that those artists felt by painting before the ordeal, for lack of a better word, must have been wonderful. I fear to think what emotional trauma they went through. Imagine being forced and more than likely beaten to paint lies just so this cruelty could keep existing. It breaks my heart thinking what they were forced to deal with or at least suffer through. The book itself did not changed for me by learning even more about the Holocaust. For me, the emotional strain of trying to put myself in that person's shoes was hard enough. To try to go any further in that relationship would have been unnecessary for me. I know this, life has terrible things inside, around, and throughout it, but it is dealing with the situations that we live life.
taken by Thelma at the Newtown Battlefield Re-enactment of the Revolutionary War
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