When there is no light, only darkness, humans still prevail. The Holocaust, a time were six million Jews were killed. Children were ripped from parents arms, and sent off to ghettos, work camps, death camps, or concentration camps. These Jews needed something to keep them going, something, when they saw it, would make them done make them not give up. Love, the beauty of nature, and laughter helped the human spirit triumph through the time camps, or concentration camps. These victims and survivors of the Holocaust, went through the darkness time of human history, but these survivors didn't let the darkness swallow them, they fought back with their light. Even in difficult times, the human spirit finds a way to triumph.
To support this claim, Love was a very large part in making the spirit triumph, as shown by multiple accounts in the documents. Love holds us together, and it is one of the many things that keeps us together. As stated by Yellow Star, "Mother does not eat her meal/She gives it to me instead" (Doc A). This shows how the daughter in Yellow Star realizes that her mother loves her by giving her food, so she could have something to eat. This love kept the
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When tears fall down one's cheeks, laughter can cheer them up. As the Book Thief states, " For a few minutes, they all forgot. There was no more yelling or calling out, but they could not contain the small snatches of laughter" (Doc C).This shows how laughter can make the pain go away. Finally, in Yellow Star, it states, "It hurt Mama to give me life?/ Why?Didn’t I just pop out of her belly button?/I guess I think these words out loud, because suddenly everyone is looking at me./Then they all burst into laughter." (Doc A). This illustrates how laughter helped the people of the Holocaust to forget about the pain, the hunger, the loss of life. Laughter, another important reason of why the spirit triumphed through a difficult