There are so many questions that one can ask regarding the Holocaust. How and why did it happen? What can we do to ensure that it never happens again? Most importantly, why is it so important that everyone should never forget the Holocaust? People cannot afford to take the role of bystanders as so many did during Hitler’s reign of terror against the Jewish people. In many ways, those bystanders could have been called offenders just like the many Nazi’s that were responsible for the deaths of over 6 million Jews.
Today, names like Eichmann, Frank, Goering, Himmler, Hoess, and many others still strike a fearful chord in the minds of so many Jews who are the descendants of Holocaust victims as well as the few remaining survivors of it. If those bystanders mentioned above had not been silent while Hitler ran his death campaign against the Jews, the Nazis may have had a more difficult time of following
“der fuhrer’s” commands. Conversely, there were the many rescuers who played such a critical role in ensuring the survival of many victims. But you still have to ask the question
“how and why did this happen?”
The question can be answered in a number of ways, but in the simplest of terms, the Holocaust happened because discrimination and hatred were allowed to be the controlling factors behind this terrible and life-changing event. Today, when school children visit the many Holocaust Centers in the UK and the US, the few Holocaust survivors who tell their stories remind these visitors that discrimination and hatred are cancers. And just like the disease, these cancers cause the death and destruction of innocent lives. This includes killing any individual that was responsible for the Holocaust as well.
There is another reason why we should never forget the Holocaust and that is the fact that it serves as a brutal reminder what can happen when one group of individuals stops seeing another group as human beings. The Holocaust survivors are dwindling in number as they grow older yet they were innocent children during the time that Hitler and the Nazis threatened their existence. The bottom line is that all of us as human beings must never forget the Holocaust so that the millions who suffered during this time in history did not die or suffer in vain and that we continue to make this a much better world.There are so many questions that one can ask regarding the Holocaust. How and why did it happen? What can we do to ensure that it never happens again? Most importantly, why is it so important that everyone should never forget the Holocaust? People cannot afford to take the role of bystanders as so many did during Hitler’s reign of terror against the Jewish people. In many ways, those bystanders could have been called offenders just like the many Nazi’s that were responsible for the deaths of over 6 million Jews.
Today, names like Eichmann, Frank, Goering, Himmler, Hoess, and many others still strike a fearful chord in the minds of so many Jews who are the descendants of Holocaust victims as well as the few remaining survivors of it. If those bystanders mentioned above had not been silent while Hitler ran his death campaign against the Jews, the Nazis may have had a more difficult time of following
“der fuhrer’s” commands. Conversely, there were the many rescuers who played such a critical role in ensuring the survival of many victims. But you still have to ask the question
“how and why did this happen?”
The question can be answered in a number of ways, but in the simplest of terms, the Holocaust happened because discrimination and hatred were allowed to be the controlling factors behind this terrible and life-changing event. Today, when school children visit the many Holocaust Centers in the UK and the US, the few Holocaust survivors who tell their stories remind these visitors that discrimination and hatred are cancers. And just like the disease, these cancers cause the death and destruction of innocent lives. This includes killing any individual that was responsible for the Holocaust as well.
There is another reason why we should never forget the Holocaust and that is the fact that it serves as a brutal reminder what can happen when one group of individuals stops seeing another group as human beings. The Holocaust survivors are dwindling in number as they grow older yet they were innocent children during the time that Hitler and the Nazis threatened their existence. The bottom line is that all of us as human beings must never forget the Holocaust so that the millions who suffered during this time in history did not die or suffer in vain and that we continue to make this a much better world.
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