Providing primary source documents allows students to analyze, observe, and provide evidence by just looking at an image (Savage & Wesson, 2016, pg. 26). These readings made me realize that it is possible to expose children at a young age. They are able to ask questions by just looking at an image that helps them understand an event better. For example, the image below is about inmates in a concentration camp on liberation day. If this was a primary source provided to students they might question why so many men were squeezed in together and or why some men look weak and thin. This could provide them a better understanding of what the Holocaust was really like rather than just telling them. I truly believe that providing a primary source document allows them to truly capture what happened at a certain historical event because the viewer is able to see it in the perspective of the person providing the image or information. The image below provides it in the perspective of the photographer, a person that is not an inmate but is able to provide a feel of what is meant to be in a concentration camp.
"These are slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Jena,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/758168a4cf4c679dad15ae7f031885ce.
