![]() ![]() Oftentimes, the guards forced Jewish prisoners to guard each other.Scene 6 – Buzz Lightyear turns the tables on his friends and suddenly puts Andy’s toys into cages and guards them. Families of the Nazis lived inside the camps, and their homes seemed like an oasis… full of things denied to the prisoners. Buzz looks across to the Butterfly room and sees the toys there being treated kindly and appropriately.The Jews were treated violently and subjected to horrible conditions in the concentration camp.Scene 5 – The children come inside the room and play violently and destructively with the toys. It might be that the prisoner was talented… a musician, an artist, a bookkeeper… the Nazis would use the talents of prisoners. It might be that the prisoner had connections to important people, and were able to get better work assignments (like the story Rabbi Ron taught us). It might be a beautiful woman (as was the case with ken & Barbie). Guards often played favorites with prisoners.Scene 4 – Ken takes an instant liking to Barbie and invites her to stay with him in the Butterfly Room. Although I doubt the Nazis tried to convince the Jews they were in a "good place", they were certainly deceptive about sending the Jews to a bad place. He extols the virtues of Sunnyside, and then assigns them to the Caterpillar Room. The toys are convinced that their new leader, Lotso, has their best interest at heart. ![]() Scene 3 – The toys arrive at Sunnyside, meet Lotso (the head of all the toys) who makes them think they are in a good place, and then sends them off to the caterpillar room. When the toys arrive at Sunnyside, they think it looks nice… “it even has a rainbow on the door.” At Auschwitz (as the rabbi mentioned earlier), there was a sign which said, “Arbeit Macht Frei” (or work will make you free), designed to make you think it wasn’t such a bad place.Woody tries to plot an escape, as many Jews must have attempted on the journey.Potato Head comforts Barbie who is distraught at this turn of events, just as must have happened to the Jews in the cattle cars. The toys are riding to the day care center in a dark, crowded box, just like the cattle cars that took Jews to the concentration camps.Scene 2 – In the car on the way to Sunnyside – Andy’s toys mistakenly think that Andy was throwing them away, so they decide to allow themselves to be donated to the day care center. All of the toys are consoled by the fact that no matter what happens they’ll be together.Buzz reminds them to get all of their pieces together to go to the attic, just as the Jews gathered their belongings to bring them on the road.The green army men desert the toys… a few Jews could see the writing on the wall and left Germany/Europe before things got bad.The toys look around and see their numbers have dwindled… over time, their friends have been taken to other places.They think they are going to the attic, and they are trying to be positive about it. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |