Holocaust Book Reflection

I have personally read a lot of interesting, different and unique stories about the Holocaust and, in fact, when I was in eighth grade, I did a grim report on all of the gas chambers used specifically during the Holocaust. I find the whole story and timeline of events in the Holocaust rather interesting to me, but since I have read so much about the Holocaust already, like during school, this book was a little bit repetitive to me. Some parts of the story were quite good and others were just less stimulating and sort of sounded like a history book that I was and am required to read in many of my history classes. A part that felt like a monotonous history textbook, for example, was on the page 185 where the author lists off dates and events back to back. When flipping through this book and randomly glancing at sentences, I always seem to read a date or something that sounds like a sentence from Wikipedia. I understand the novel is informational, but there should be an even balance of information and dialogue.

This view that Father Simons held and expressed to Frans, in the year 1943, was sort of confusing to me because when I think of a Priest, I picture a kind man with morals who knows what the correct thing to do is, and in the story, this does not seem to be the case. “‘But they are also human beings,’ Frans responded. The Priest shot back, ‘They are Jews. What are you involved in? They are Jews!” (66) I am not sure if Father Simon’s concern for Frans’ safety justifies his words. Although he may have been a Priest, he was not a good person in my