Final Post: Because if Romek

1) I thought the most horrifying part of the book in "Because of Romek" was the part when the guard thought the guy ate some of his important valuables, and that the guard had to take a knife and stab threw his buttocks ripping all the flesh and bones away from his body, making him scream horribly. I thought that was terrible, disturbing, cruel and horrible. He did not just do that to 1 person he did it to several people and there was not even 1 important valuable in them. So he did it for nothing. I think he did that just because he thought it might of been fun for him. I thought this was horrible because it is frightening seeing someone with a knife come toward you and stick that knife through someone’s skin ripping him apart section at a time. It is not just scary and frightening to him it is scary and fighting of the people around him, because that could be happening to them to. Another thing that scared me was when they were asking for the blue file to Romek, but Romek did not know, so the tortured him to death. I thought that was terrible. Sticking fire in his mouth and in his eye. Pulling on his tongue until it fell out. Kicking him until the wind got knocked out of him. Opening his mouth until his flesh ripped apart. That is all terrible at least David got it easy and someone spoke up and saved his life. I thought that was terrible to. There were so many more things I could say about this that I thought was horrifying and terrible.

2) The job that David Faber gets when he was in the Krawinkel Concentration Camp was feeding the dogs. It helped him survive because he was able to eat some of the dogs food and biscuits. He also gave a couple to his friends. This was an easy job for him because all he really had to do was feed the dogs and that got him out of the other hard work he had to do. The first time he had to feed the dogs, he was afraid of them because they are trained to bite people. But sooner David Faber became friends with them and so did the dogs, so he was not much afraid of the dogs. But then later he was taken away for that job.

3)Bergen-Belsen's concentration camp is the worst concentration camp that David Faber has faced. It was terrible for him ti stay there. The rooms smelled like urine and there were dead bodies everywhere and many sick people. Because of that he got the disease called typhus where there is to much water in his stomach and not much food. If he eats to much at a time he could die, and he almost did die. His job was to carry dead people to the furnace so the could be burned and there he could earn a little soup. But later on it was not just soup, it was soup from bodies the cut up.

4) He was proud in that he survived the Holocaust and he was a miracle child. All of his family died but him. God wanted him to stay alive for him to tell the story of what happened in the holocaust. He was also very proud that he survived it to tell the story and made his promise to his mother that he would survive this to make it here were he is now. God wanted him to stay, that is why he did not get killed. And many people helped him survive by getting him easy jobs, giving him hints on how to stay away from the guards and also how not get hit harder by the guards. That is 1 of his proudest moments.

5) David Faber's book, Because of Romek, should be required reading in all middle schools, high schools, and universities because all students need to learn about the horrors of the Holocaust. They need to know about this so they could appreciate what they have right now. The people in the holocaust did not get freedom like us. There lives were miserable until the holocaust was over. They got beaten and killed every single day. They had to worry about themselves because everyday that could of been there last day to live on earth. For us we do not get beaten or killed everyday. Thankfully we don't. We don't get torchered like they do and we do not get shot or torchered if we accidentally did something wrong. In the holocaust they saw there families and friends die. For us we see them everyday and we should appreciate that we are still alive today. I also reccomend this book because it talks about how the Nazis were so cruel to the Jews in the Holocaust. They respected them badly and called them mean names and laughed at them when they were slowly dieing. The holocaust was cruel and horrible and that is why I wish that everyone should read "Because of Romek".