Holocaust Informative Speech

Imagine being on the run for fourteen days, no food, no water and no rest. Your legs are numb, your mouth is as dry as sandpaper and you have lost all hope. This was the experience of a young man who was forced to flee a genocide in Myanmar, just last year. Good morning 8A and Ms. Cosman. Today, I will talk about the significance of two important words, “never forget.” It is crucial that we never forget the horrors of the Holocaust and the lessons that it offers. Sadly, since the Holocaust, genocides have continued to occur around the world, up to the present day. I have struggled to understand why these horrors continue to happen, and I will offer some ideas.

While the horrors of the Holocaust are well known, most people do not consider the many important lessons that it teaches. Martin Luther King Junior, the leader of the American civil rights movement, once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." But before lives actually end, small things happen that are warnings of worse things to come. First a curfew, then a yellow star and then…..well...we all know what happened. The Holocaust teaches us that, within society, even the smallest forms of oppression should be protested to prevent the situation from getting worse and possibly deadly. And where oppression does get worse, and even deadly, the Holocaust teaches that the nations of the
There have been a number of genocides since the Holocaust. For example, in 1994, the Hutus killed over 800 thousand Tutsis in the Rwandan genocide and the world did nothing. Just twenty years earlier in Cambodia, a communist group called the Khmer Rouge murdered over 1.7 million people by working them to death and by starvation. The crisis in Sudan is still going on today. Approximately 3.2 million people have fled Sudan and are without a home and virtually nothing is being done by the nations of the