Yesterday, our grade was called to attend an assembly in the auditorium. The assembly was about the story of a Holocaust survivor, with the person speaking being the survivor's son. I found the story genuinely interesting, and later, I took the time to learn more about life in Nazi Germany. Perhaps I enjoy learning about history more than others, but I noticed that the people around me didn't care about the presentation. They didn't even pretend to pay attention or acknowledge what the presenter's father had to live through. Instead, they just fooled around in the background. They only saw the assembly as a free period and completely missed the point. In fact, I overheard some of them cracking jokes about the Holocaust and the extermination camps that killed and tortured countless victims. Is this normal for people to do? Is this normal for kids my age to do, or is it just my fellow classmates who are apathetic and insensitive?
