Diary of the Great Deportation Quiz

The moment that Lewin enters his diary with his own thoughts and feelings makes the reader feel as if they are actually the ones suffering in the Warsaw Ghetto.  It allows one to fully comprehend not just the facts, but the emotions and thoughts taking place in the mind of the victims of the Holocaust.  Personally, when I got to this part of the diary, I was swept with a sudden realization that people actually suffered through this horrifying event.  People usually think about the fact and the conditions of the Holocaust, but they don’t always think about what the victims were feeling while it was taking place.  It is quite hard to imagine these said feelings, and for some, it is only through such a powerful piece as this diary that they are able to understand what the victims were feeling and what was going through their mind.

            At one point Lewin writes about how his wife was taken by the Nazis.  I believe that at this point in the diary, Lewin has given up that there is hope for any of the victims of the Holocaust.  He wishes deep sown that his wife will be saved, but he knows there is a slim chance that his wish will come true, and he knows he cannot cling to hopeful feelings when he is living in a time when one needs to face the truth more than ever.  I believe that after this point in the diary, Lewin becomes less hopeful that anyone will ever be saved, and thus he writes with increasingly truthful details in order to be able to face the truth head on.

            At the end of the diary, after which it is thought that the Nazis seize Lewin and his daughter and sent to the deaths, Lewin begins to ask questions aimed at God.  He asks whether there is any hope for the survivors.   He wants to know if there will be a miracle in which will save him and his daughter.  The questions show how many of the survivors up until that point believed that they were all doomed, and that only a miracle, which was unlikely, would save them from their imminent deaths.  It is an extremely sad part in the diary for the reader realizes that these cries for help are their one last hope that they will be saved.