Reflection: Holocaust Video, Chapter 1

What details about the Holocaust experience became clearer or more vivid for you because of the video?
-The video showed the actual camp of Auschwitz, so it displayed the actual setting of what the Jews went through. I was able to picture Wiesel's experience in a clearer setting because of the display of the crematorium and gas chambers.

Describe the video techniques used to tell this story:

• Camera angles- The camera angles showed the intensity of the Holocaust by catching the dumping of the bodies, showing the amount of casualties dumped each day.
  
• Graphics- The graphics were the most descriptive of all. When they show the bodies of the Jews and the condition they were in, you can see the hopelessness in their eyes. Millions of people had to go through the starvation, burns, beating and loneliness and you can see it in all the graphics they showed.
  
• Interviewing- In the interview, Oprah didn't talk as much as she would in a normal interview. She gave Wiesel the spotlight and let him explain what happened. Not only did she get information from him, but she was able to get the personal depth of what Wiesel had to go through.
  
• Excerpts from the book- The excerpts from the book were shown right in the necessary moments. Viewers are able to see his journal of his tragic experience. Seeing the interview and reading his book are two completely different ways of knowing the personal story of the Holocaust. The excerpts bring a more personal approach since the interview had more silence than talking.
  

What is the "madness" the Oprah and Elie Wiesel speak of at the end of this section?
- The "madness" is the inhumanity of the humans. How were all these tragedies happening to the Jews and the world still be in silence? It was madness. Nobody came to their rescue even when all of this was happening. Wiesel finally came to the conclusion that during that time, it was human to be inhumane.