Back in Anatomy class in high school, we dissected fetal pigs. I remember my peers making them talk or dance, and I was repulsed. I am sure many of you are going to read this and say that I am far too sensitive and that it is simply a farm animal, and you might be right. But to me, I saw God's creation that day as an opportunity to learn and I wanted to show respect. I was in the mindset that this pig was just as valuable a cadaver as a human.
This disgust returned to my mind and multiplied when I read this book. When Levi stands before the nurse, they poke at his ribs and refer to him as a corpse in an anatomy class. Here, I remembered anatomy class and how I felt about the pigs, but this time it was a living human. But this was beyond disrespect. These people were tortured and traumatized. A large group of people were treating an entire other group of people as if they were swine on a high school lab table, but far, far worse.
Before we even read the book, Hailey informed me that much of what we know about anatomy today is what people learned from the jews, and that thought ripped my heart out of my chest and threw it in the shredder. I was shocked and sickened.
This story was absolutely gut wrenching seeing the way people were treated. Tears tried to force themselves from my eyes with every word. I hope that there is some brightness as the book continues because it is proving difficult to read.
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This disgust returned to my mind and multiplied when I read this book. When Levi stands before the nurse, they poke at his ribs and refer to him as a corpse in an anatomy class. Here, I remembered anatomy class and how I felt about the pigs, but this time it was a living human. But this was beyond disrespect. These people were tortured and traumatized. A large group of people were treating an entire other group of people as if they were swine on a high school lab table, but far, far worse.
Before we even read the book, Hailey informed me that much of what we know about anatomy today is what people learned from the jews, and that thought ripped my heart out of my chest and threw it in the shredder. I was shocked and sickened.
This story was absolutely gut wrenching seeing the way people were treated. Tears tried to force themselves from my eyes with every word. I hope that there is some brightness as the book continues because it is proving difficult to read.
I commented on Drew and Rachel's posts.
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It's been a long time since I learned about that medical experimentation fact (pretty sure it was sometime during my sophomore year of high school). I don't know how many of the discoveries made by the Germans are still relevant, but the Nazis did do terribly sickening things to their captives in order to push the bounds of science. It's wretched to think that some of the medical practices and safety precautions we learn of today have their roots in inhumane Nazi experimentation's.