This is an optional activity about The Holocaust.
Speaking of his arrrival at Auschwitz, P. Levi said:
"It was bleak, at night, after travelling five days on a disastrous journey, during which the people in the car had died, arriving in a place where one did¨nt Know the language or understand the purpose. There were sings that made no sense: a shower, a clean side...a dirty side and a clean side. No one explained anything. They spoke to us either in Yiddish or in Polish... and we didn´t understand. It was truly an alienating experience, there was an impression of complete madness, of having abandoned all posibility of reason. There was no reasoning anymore."
Evening on Karl Joham Street. E. Munch
1 Read Levis arrival description carefully and write down ten words to describe the way Levi might have felt stepping out onto the train platform that night.
2 What does "an alienating" experience mean?
You can leave me a comment with your answers.
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1)Bleak
Tired
Sad
Disastrous (the journey he had)
Weird
Without sense
Lost of human reason
He had fear of the new place
He didn´t understand the language
Bad experience of his life
2) I think that an alienating experience means that this experience has transformed P. Levi´s conscience and reason, he saw that human reason was completely transformed in order to survive. He learned an important value that night in the train of how human beings can be transformed when their lifes are in danger.
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