7th Heaven

Very moving episode!!!! Some people say that Lucy is supposed to be "sensitive," but in reality, I see Simon as the truly sensitive one.



It's touching how Simon is moved to tears by Charlotte Kerjesz's sad story and at the end, Ms. Kerjesz's story brought tears to my own eyes.



I love how this eppie reminds us how we must never let horrors of the past be forgotten, lest it be repeated again.



Meanwhile, I kind of laughed when Mary and Lucy get their come-uppance for being cruel to poor Joanne; they really hurt not only her, but Matt as well. I HATED Mary and (supposedly "sensitive") Lucy in this eppie; they were so ugly in this episode.



Ruthie acted like a jerk also. While I can see Annie being hurt by her words, I do think Annie overreacted a tad.



But I was glad when Matt, then Annie told Mary and Lucy off for their nastiness and I got the feeling that neither of their apologies to Joanne were really sincere and I could tell that Joanne sensed this also.



I loved the ending and poor Simon ends up in tears again just listening to Charlotte's painful story.



This was one of the better eppies of this show and this episode beautifully wraps up the three subplots together to tell how easy it is for hate to expand into cruelty and for cruelty to explode into something truly awful like the holocaust.



Good, very poignant episode!

This episode pretty much focused on Simon and I'm glad it did he was very mature throughout this whole epoisode. I am very impressed that an 11 yr old could handel such a tramitac story. Also the seens with Mackinze, and Catherine were amazing the whole "I Hate You" thing was just done outstandingly, also the thing with Joanne and Matt.. I felt really bad for Matt.. Mary and Lucy had absoutely no right at all to do what they did they immately started hating on Joanne based on her apparence and that is just completely wrong in my opinon. I loved how Simon stood up to his teacher in the end after hearing Mrs. Kergize's story the night before and took an F for the report. I thought the last seen in this eposode was done extremely well! great job to Brenda Hampton

this is a wonderful episode. almost as great as "in the praise of women". this is such a sad, yet a happy story. sad because of what ruthie told annie, and about mrs. kerjez, and happy because ruthie told annie that she loved her, and also, it was informative. in this episode, i have never, never in my life learned so much about the holocaust, and nazis, and concetration camps. i think that it was a good idea to bring that lady on the show. she is honestly, my hero. if i was in that kind of turmoil, i don't know what i'd do. and it's good that mrs. kerjez told her story to others. because compared to the nazis in concetration camps and all of that, we pretty much live in a first class world. nobody, NOBODY, can ever have it as bad as they[nazis] did.

This was the only episode that made me cry. Now, I'm not that big of a 7th Heavens fan but I went through this little faze for about two months where thats all I would watch. I remember seeing this episode and at the end when the Haloucoust survivor lady told her story crying so hard. You know when you cry so much that you start to heave and it's hard to breath? Well, thats how much I cried. I remember not being able to stop. I would ask you even if your not a fan of 7th Heaven just to watch this episode. It's very good to see what people went through just because of racism and prejudice. definitly a big time tearjerker.

I cried during this episode. Her story was so powerful, but what tugged at my heart was the faces of the children in Simon\\\'s class. Those kids who have not seen those horrors, and who -- hopefully -- never will. I applaud the producers of 7th Heaven for taking on such an important issue. I give everyone a standing ovation for being so daring and making another generation aware of this issue. The other stories in 7th Heaven are not as realistic as this one was. To see Simon cry gave me hope for the future generations -- if we show the future what happened in the past, they can prevent it from happening.