We completed a second Empathy Map looking at what Elie was like at the end of the war. Elie was a lot skinnier now, he was like a corpse of himself, he had lost all of his family. He will never forget all the things he went through and it will scar him forever. Elie was angry at God for letting that happen, and he could hear memories of the screams of the people being thrown into flames or going in the crematourioum.
This is my empathy map
Elie had changed so much from the 12 year old boy in Sighet to the 16 year old that was liberated from a concentration camp at the end of the war. He had lost all his family and was very unhealthy and extremely skinny. At the end of the war Elie got a bad illness and had to go to hospital for two weeks, those two weeks he was fighting between life and death everyday.
Reading Elie account of what had happened to him during the holocaust made me feel terrible. I hated the thought of the fact that so many people went through that and most of them didn't come out alive, it makes me feel sick to the bone.
One of the hardest and most upsetting parts of the story was when the children and infants were being thrown into the fire pit alive. And when almost at the end of war all the people that were still alive in the camps had to go on the death run and if they stopped they got shot or did anything along the lines of taking a break they would get shot. It would have been freezing cold and extremely hard.
Some parts of Elie story that gave me hope was when there was that nice guy that would try to give them extra rations of food and give them extra care, but when that became wider knowledge he got taken away to get killed which made me lose my hope in that.
Elie's story has made me lose hope in some human beings and I just can't believe humans would do that to other humans. I was happy at the end when they got liberated though.
I have realised that it is important to check up on if others are ok and to be nice to everyone as you don't have any idea what they've been through.
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