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By Adam Kazmierczak. Loss of identity. There was no longer any joy in his eyes. He no longer sang. He no longer talked to me of God or the cabbala, but only of what he had seen. People refused not only to believe his stories, but even to listen to him. (p.5).
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By Adam Kazmierczak Loss of identity
There was no longer any joy in his eyes. He no longer sang. He no longer talked to me of God or the cabbala, but only of what he had seen. People refused not only to believe his stories, but even to listen to him. (p.5) • This is talking about when Moshe the Beadle came back. This is loss of identity because when he came back he wasn’t himself any more. Like they say he use to sing, talk about god, and he now has no joy in his eyes. What made him lose his identity was having to see all the babies and kids killed by the Nazis.
a Jew no longer had the right to keep in his house gold, jewels, or any other objects of value. Everything had to be handed over to the authorities-on pain of death. (p.8) • This is definitely loss of identity because now they are forcing the Jews to give them their valuables. Now some Jews hid their valuables but others had to give them things like family aurums, rings, and many other things. And then if you didn’t give them your valuables then they would kill you.
When the three days were up, there was a new decree: every Jew must wear the yellow star. (p.9) • This is loss of identity now because they had to wear the Star of David. This might not look so bad but it is the start of their right being taken away. Also now people would start to treat you different if you were just walking down the road and a German saw the star they might spit on you or some other thing.
but already they were issuing new decrees. we were no longer allowed to go into restaurants or cafes, to travel on the railway, to attend the synagogue, to go out in to the street after six o’ clock. (p.9) • This is loss of identity because they are taking away their rights. They cant go the restaurants they cant travel by train, they cant go to the synagogue to practice their religion, and they cant go out after six. And by doing this they are taking away things they might do every day.
Two ghettos were set up in Sighet. A lager one, in the center of the town, occupied four streets, and another smaller on extended over several small streets in the outlying district. The street where we lived, Serpent Street, was in the first ghetto. (p.9) • Now for Elie and his family they were lucky because they didn’t to have to leave their house. But for other families they had to get out of their house to go to one of the two ghettos and hope to find a nice family to let them live with them. But for most people they had to leave their house the place where their kids were raised the place where they might have spent their whole life.
One by one they passed in front of me, teachers, friends, others, all those I had been afraid of, all those I once could have laughed at, all those I had lived with over the years. They went by, fallen, dragging their packs, dragging their lives, deserting their homes, the years of their childhood, cringing like beaten dogs. (p.13) • This is loss of identity because all the people are being forced out of the houses and on to a train. They are leaving their lives and almost everything they use to have they were only allowed one bag. They are being forced to leave the place and people they love to go on a train that will take them on a journey that they never could have imagined.
Soon, nearly everywhere, pieces of bread were being dropped into the wagons. The audience stared at these skeletons of men, fighting one another to the death for a mouthful. (p. 73-74) • This is loss of identity because the men from being treated like animals they are acting like animals. From how they are being treated they are for getting how to act civilized and good and now for most of them its every man for them self. Also they are being starved and do not have much food or water so when there is food they fight to the death for it.
But at that same moment this thought came into my mind: “Don't let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about myself.” Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever. (p.77) • This is loss of identity because he is starting to act less like himself and not wanting to help his father. Here he is starting to become like the people on the train just looking out for him self. He starts to think that if his father is gone then he can look after him self better.
One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not see myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me. (p.83) • This is loss of identity because he did not see himself as himself any more. When he looked in the mirror he didn’t look like he use to he now looked like a corpse. He is not who he use to be because he had lost almost all his family and he had to go through all the death.
