Friday Five 3-May
Saturday, 4 May 2019 23:56![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivek1. Is there a particular historical period or event, anywhere in the world, that fascinates you?
I don’t think that I find it fascinating, but nevertheless I am drawn to holocaust stuff. I’ve read quite few (fiction and non fiction) books on either WWII or The Holocaust. I guess I just can’t wrap my mind around why it happened. I’d also be interested to read accounts from those who weren’t affected (such as, those who actually benefited from the vacated homes and such), but at the same time I’m just too lazy to do proper research on it.
A little off topic, on a podcast that I was listening to today, I learnt that the Nazis not only purged the Jews but also collected religious artefacts and were looking for Atlantis or something, and now that’s another rabbit hole I am contemplating.
2. Would you like to visit that time, or live in it permanently, or does the whole idea make you want to run screaming?
Absolutely not. I’ll probably die because of “insubordination” or something along those lines as I think I’d be unable to shut up about the unfairness of it all. (About kicking out the Jews and taking over their businesses and homes) or, I might be killed for being half breed or something.
3. What's the best piece of historical writing, nonfiction or fiction, you've ever read?
I do have a faint memory that I once read a very good book (fiction) on the war but I don’t remember the name and what it was about. It’s one of the first books on the war that I read outside of schoolwork.
4. What's the worst?
I wouldn’t say the worst but I just couldn’t get into the reading mood when I’m reading Anne Frank.
5. Is there a historical site you would love to visit?
I guess Auschwitz though I have read that there is nothing there anymore... I did visit Thereseinstadt in Czech Republic and it was creepy as heck (my friend said she saw a kid in very worn clothes run past whereas I saw a shadow flit across in the corner of a room.)
Ah... let’s just say I have visited Stonehenge already.
I don’t think that I find it fascinating, but nevertheless I am drawn to holocaust stuff. I’ve read quite few (fiction and non fiction) books on either WWII or The Holocaust. I guess I just can’t wrap my mind around why it happened. I’d also be interested to read accounts from those who weren’t affected (such as, those who actually benefited from the vacated homes and such), but at the same time I’m just too lazy to do proper research on it.
A little off topic, on a podcast that I was listening to today, I learnt that the Nazis not only purged the Jews but also collected religious artefacts and were looking for Atlantis or something, and now that’s another rabbit hole I am contemplating.
2. Would you like to visit that time, or live in it permanently, or does the whole idea make you want to run screaming?
Absolutely not. I’ll probably die because of “insubordination” or something along those lines as I think I’d be unable to shut up about the unfairness of it all. (About kicking out the Jews and taking over their businesses and homes) or, I might be killed for being half breed or something.
3. What's the best piece of historical writing, nonfiction or fiction, you've ever read?
I do have a faint memory that I once read a very good book (fiction) on the war but I don’t remember the name and what it was about. It’s one of the first books on the war that I read outside of schoolwork.
4. What's the worst?
I wouldn’t say the worst but I just couldn’t get into the reading mood when I’m reading Anne Frank.
5. Is there a historical site you would love to visit?
I guess Auschwitz though I have read that there is nothing there anymore... I did visit Thereseinstadt in Czech Republic and it was creepy as heck (my friend said she saw a kid in very worn clothes run past whereas I saw a shadow flit across in the corner of a room.)
Ah... let’s just say I have visited Stonehenge already.
