Trail of Tears and Holocaust
Trail of Tears and Holocaust
The Trail of Tears is similar to the Holocaust in that the culture of groups of people were almost destroyed. Whether it was their race or their religious beliefs, people who felt superior to them tried to destroy them. Many people were eliminated for what they believed in. Some of them lost their family, they were sent on death marches, loaded into cattle cars and wagons, lost the sense of who they were, and treated like they weren't human beings. But even through all of that they did not give up.
The first way the Trail of the Tears was similar to the Holocaust was the loss of family. As the Jewish population was put through selection, families were split up "Men to the left! Women to the right!" The Jewish population that did not make it through selection were sent to gas chambers and those who made it through selection were put in concentration camps. Eli Wiesel and his father Shlolmo Wiesel were put into concentration camps while Eli's Mother, his older sisters Hilda, Béa, and his little sister Tzipora were sent to the gas chambers. "Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my Mother." As the Cherokee Indians population were removed from their life long homes they were put into stockades. "Children rose to their feet and waved their little hands good-bye to their mountain homes, knowing they were leaving them forever." If the Cherokee Indians did not leave when they were told to they were arrested and had to make the trip in handcuffs. "A little sad face child had died and was lying on a bear skin couch and some women were preparing the little body for burial. all were arrested and driven out leaving the child in the cabin." "Men working in the field were arrested and driven into stockades. Women were dragged from their homes by soldiers whose language they could not understand. Children were often separated from their parents
The Trail of Tears is similar to the Holocaust in that the culture of groups of people were almost destroyed. Whether it was their race or their religious beliefs, people who felt superior to them tried to destroy them. Many people were eliminated for what they believed in. Some of them lost their family, they were sent on death marches, loaded into cattle cars and wagons, lost the sense of who they were, and treated like they weren't human beings. But even through all of that they did not give up.
The first way the Trail of the Tears was similar to the Holocaust was the loss of family. As the Jewish population was put through selection, families were split up "Men to the left! Women to the right!" The Jewish population that did not make it through selection were sent to gas chambers and those who made it through selection were put in concentration camps. Eli Wiesel and his father Shlolmo Wiesel were put into concentration camps while Eli's Mother, his older sisters Hilda, Béa, and his little sister Tzipora were sent to the gas chambers. "Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my Mother." As the Cherokee Indians population were removed from their life long homes they were put into stockades. "Children rose to their feet and waved their little hands good-bye to their mountain homes, knowing they were leaving them forever." If the Cherokee Indians did not leave when they were told to they were arrested and had to make the trip in handcuffs. "A little sad face child had died and was lying on a bear skin couch and some women were preparing the little body for burial. all were arrested and driven out leaving the child in the cabin." "Men working in the field were arrested and driven into stockades. Women were dragged from their homes by soldiers whose language they could not understand. Children were often separated from their parents