Did you know that 11 million people died in the holocaust? If this event didn’t happen, then many people’s lives today would be much different. The holocaust was a terrible thing. People were thrown in gas chambers just because of how they looked or what type of person they were. Jews were the main targets, because that’s what the leader insisted. Although many terrible things happened during the holocaust, there are still some people, still living today, that have escaped.…
¨How does one mourn for six million people who died? How many candles does one light? How many prayers does one recite? Do we know how to remember the victims, their solitude, their helplessness? They left without a trace, and we are their trace,¨ (Elie Wiesel). Millions dead, 1.5 million were children; they were tortured and starved to death. Some say that nobody really died, that the genocide didn't happen, that the Holocaust didn't exist. However, Evidence proves those few people wrong. The Holocaust did happen, and went it ended it took millions of people down with it. Scarred for life, the survivors have shared their war stories and have shared their grief with the world. Never again will they be able to close their eyes without seeing…
Also if we would take more action to stop bullying or any type of problem I think we would make the world a better place. If we were standing in the position of a Jew during the Holocaust we would feel sad hurt and depressed. So if we were looking into the past of a Jew during the Holocaust we would wonder why, why did they not try to help us when they had heard about the Holocaust, why did they just sit there like Bystanders. If someone had tried to stop the Holocaust it could have never happened. I feel that a lot of the time the problem grows because of the bystanders and the problem wanes when the upstanders tried to…
In today’s society, a majority of people would say that a scenario like the holocaust would be impossible; some say that the holocaust never even existed. Philosopher George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”(George, 1). Because of the denial of society today, situations similar to the Holocaust have been repeated. Even today, there are acts of genocide happening in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur (Modern, 1).…
One of the worst most detrimental event that has ever occurred in our history was the Holocaust. Arising in 1933, Hitler was in charge of this awful plan. Known as the Nazis, they strived to kill Jews or put them in labor camps. There ended up being about a 6 million death count of just the Jewish community. There were few people who would stand for the Jews, defending them and their rights. Some people even helped Jews escape from their death camps or labor camps. All of these people demonstrated moral courage by helping the Jews and risking their lives and everything they had to give the Jews a chance at life.…
In order to find out what impact the Holocaust has on America today, one must look to the past to see if America had any influence in…
Cattle cars. Burning bodies. Auschwitz. These words are engraved in the mind of every Jewish person on Earth. After decades, Holocaust survivors still have nightmares about these thoughts. One word, one indescribable word, will forever stay with these people. Holocaust. Many people of the Jewish faith realize the power of that word, but many others still need to learn. A man is sitting peacefully in his home; he has no worries, even when Nazi soldiers dragged him into the horrendous ghettos. He also willfully went into cattle cars, and then finally into Auschwitz. This is where that man realized that his life became horrible. Throughout the months in the work camp, throughout all of the suffering, his will to survive surpassed the will to kill of Nazi soldiers. Years later, people know that events like the Holocaust will, and are happening right now, such as the Bosnian Genocide 1992. Education also will get rid of the desire for power in human beings. Educating students about the Holocaust, and other genocides, will help prevent genocides in future generations. Man has the will to survive and surpass evil like the Holocaust survivors, genocides like this will happen again, and education will help prevent genocides in the future.…
People can't go back and fix it, so why don't they learn from it and prevent it from happening again. This article is about what was said at the dedication ceremonies for the Holocaust museum. There was a lot of personal stories of persecution and concentration camps, and it talked a lot about how there is still more people can learn from this event and a lot more people can do to honor those involved with this event. Throughout “ Holocaust Memorial Museum, April 22, 1993” Elie Wiesel uses a hopeful tone, a conflict between a person and society, and metaphors to show that if a person tries to learn from the past then the person will have a better chance at success in the future.…
Innocent people are being seriously killed, innocent Syrians are being obligated from their original Syrian homes and forced into camps,innocent Syrians are continuously starving, and this proves the world has not yet learned from they events of the holocaust. We still continue to do the events of the holocaust this is a serious issue and it’s about time we take time to help and step up to the plate.nBased on the things proved in my essay you can see the holocaust is alive and children…
There are many events that have happened throughout history that are important enough and that have raised enough awareness that we still study and learn about them today. One of those important events being the Holocaust is something that is still being talked about and learned today through the book called Night by Elie Wiesel and other various sources. The Holocaust was an event in history that should never be forgotten and is urgent to learn about still to this day because of the horrible things that happened to the Jews and so we are prepared so the Holocaust never happens again.…
Elie Wiesel said, “But this time, the world was not silent. This time we do respond. This time, we intervene. Does this mean we have learned from the past? Does this mean that society has changed? Have we really learned from our experiences?” This quote asks the readers (and those present at Elie’s speech) to think and askaks ourselves if anything has changed that tells us that we have learned from past experiences. This quote relates because Elie asks for change to continue to take place in genocidal e situations. When the global community respects the wishes of Holocaust survivors, the world fulfills its duty to prevent genocide. The international community must take action by having an international convention with Burma’s government to accuse them of genocide and warn them of intervention not only because the global community is obligated to answer pleas to learn from the past, but also to end the Rohingyas’…
It is simple: we learn from our mistakes, and act based on what we have learned. We already realize that the Holocaust was a horrible tragedy, and it should never have happened, but that is only the beginning. We should take the destruction that we learned can happen so easily because of us, and take that into consideration when doing something big. This can range from choosing leaders, to going to war. If we take that destruction into consideration, that can prevent such disasters from happening and make the world a better…
In reality, there is no possible way that a two year old girl in California could help a 50 year old man in West Sudan. She is too young to know what is going on and too young to do anything to help. Granted, once someone is educated about a terror in the world, it is their duty as a human to be concerned about it and speak out against it. It is their human duty to help in the way they are able and to speak out about injustices in the world. In Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, no one was fully publicizing the details of the Holocaust. Whispers and rumors were all that the Holocaust was, people never knew the reality of it. So many more would have taken their opportunity to flee had they known the full extent of what was happening. It is every human's duty to act on what they have heard whether it is something like sending clean water to those who have none, adopting a baby girl from China, warning people of threats, or many other simple things. No one should sit by numb to any human suffering. It is their duty to have concern and help in the ways they are…
Some things we can learn are, that if someone or thing is wrong speak up about it, killing should not go unnoticed, and just because someone is different does not mean they should be treated differently. If someone should have spoken up about what they thought was unfair this whole massacre may have never happened. Killing people is against the law and just because you are a leader doesn’t mean you can kill whoever whenever, that’s just not right. There are also many different races, religions, eye colors, hair colors, and so on. Last if you treat one unfair because of one of their features than everyone should have be treated unfair because no one person is the same. Learning is one of the greatest abilities god gave us and the Holocaust is something we can learn from.…
"If we forget the past, it could happen again. We must learn from those horrors. We must learn what happens when people remain silent while others are persecuted. We must learn, my child, not to ignore the ugly sings, the danger signs, as my family-as the people of my generation did." This quote from the book "The Cage" has a very strong meaning and is relevant not only in reference to the Jews in World War II, but can also be related to almost any type of injustice, many of which are in the world today. It means just what the first line said, "If we forget the past, it could happen again." That's why we study history: so that we don't make the same mistakes twice. It means that it is just as sinful to ignore a known wrong and let it occur without doing anything, than it is to actually commit it. Many parts of the world just turned their backs on the war and didn't want any part of it; they just decided to look the other way. This was not totally in vein, but many do believe that something should have been done sooner. Neutral countries didn't have to all of a sudden jump up and wage full attack on Hitler, but they could have tried to do something sooner to keep him from getting so much power and to help stop the killing. Gaining all the power that Germany did, should have been a "danger sign" enough, but "the people of my generation" did ignore it for a long time. Too long. Countless lives were lost and the homes, bodies, and spirits of millions were crushed with one giant swing here and bit by bit there. We do need to learn from our mistakes, even if only for the purpose of avoiding such a tragic disaster like this…