Haiti Earthquake--"Shabbat of Hell"

While reading through the Haiti Earthquake article, the piece of information which I thought of as the most distinguished and significant was the notion of the situation being just like the stories of the Holocaust. “It’s just like the stories we are told of the Holocaust – thousands of bodies everywhere.” This primary source describes and details the magnitude of the disaster and its aftermath, and provides sufficient and illustrative information to what the conditions were like. These few words encompasses several descriptions that allows one to understand what really happened. It describes death, hunger, disorder, destruction of culture, corruption of humanity, inhumanity, collaborations of humanity, community, danger, and so much more that made up the Holocaust, therefore making up this disaster. As it may be a bit of an exaggeration from the one who spoke about it this way because he was greatly effected by it, the idea of the earthquake comparing to the Holocaust shows the vast spectrum by which all aspects of life were effected by it. In other words, by establishing a connection between persecution/war and the environment, two completely opposite elements of life, proves how one aspect of life goes on to involve and impact all others. What the quote explains is significant because the earthquake lead to an extreme amount of development in all of the areas of life which were effected and consequentially changed by it. By damaging and changing the environment, the earthquake also altered the way humanity stands in relation to the world today.