A Film Unfinished

Summary Was a very informative look at a topic that I knew very little of. I think its hard for most individuals to fully grasp the realities of what life was like during the days leading up to and during WWII. We see images such as those in the film and hear the reports of mass death on the scale of millions and its hard to get a since of what those numbers represent. What is so stirring about the plight of those in the ghetto is not just the massive lose of live that was suffered but the cruelty in how they were treated. Massive lose of live was not something uncommon during those days. The United States was losing 25000 troops a day on average during this same time of the WWII. The Russians lost around 60 million total throughout the entire war. Death is a tragedy in any form, but most of these loses were combat loses. In most cases these individuals were fighting and dying for a cause that they believed in, along with others that they cared about, in a way that could offer some since of dignity. The conditions in the ghetto evoke a different feeling of helplessness and fear. Human beings made to suffer not only terrible conditions but enduring a fearful existence believing that they were less than human. No one was spared the tortures environment men, women and children all dealt the same horrible result. There seem to be a complete lack of compassion by those aware of the truth about what was occurring. Even the Jews within the ghetto had to become desensitized by the level of cruelty and carnage that was on display daily. It was interesting to hear the comment made by one of the survivors now seeing the footage after many years. She said something along the lines of how she was brought to tears by seeing this now that she was human again.