I was about 8 when my mom and us watched a program about the Jews. It showed piles of skin and bone bodies. It showed children and adults in those piles. It showed the emaciated people in the camps naked. I was shocked by the films. I couldn't understand how anyone could do that to other people. It didn't exactly traumatize me though because my mom said we needed to watch it so that we would know that it happened and that it should not happen ever again. I will always remember the haunting films of the Jewish people. I think watching it young with my mom gave me a sense of the sanctity of life and the importance of not harming others and treating them like non humans. It caused me to have a soberness about what people are capable of doing. I think if people are to really have a sense of responsibility towards other humans it is best if they learn it from early on.
I think if people are to really have a sense of responsibility towards other humans it is best if they learn it from early on. I agree. When I was a kid, my grandfather had an attic full of old Life magazines from the 40's and 50's. To while away the boring afternoon, I and my brothers would troop upstairs and drag down armloads of magazines, then sit leafing through the pages. The pictures of concentration camp victims were graphic and horrifying, but they were undoctored, uncensored and real. I don't remember being traumatized, but I did develop a lifelong aversion to violence of all kinds. I can't bear to see anyone or anything suffer. I'll never forget those images.