The Unforgettable Impact of the Holocaust

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Holocaust Memorial Day is so important – not just to Jews but to many other people too. There have been many people who died in the Holocaust; some of them are not even Jewish. The Holocaust is a contemporaneous issue. It cannot, and should not, be an event commit to history. However, the Holocaust is more than a warning from the history. The loss of six million lives is incalculable & unforgettable; consider what could they have been achieved by those innocents who died, what could have been found, written, invented and avoided. They tell us to 'Never Forget', conscious that their ancestors suffered numerous persecutions and that it is our responsibility to ensure that such crimes are never committed against us again. The first passage we Elie sees that the holocaust reveals everyone’s selfishness and cruelty not only Nazis but also his own fellows, even himself. Elie thinks if the world is so cruel and disgusting then the god must be cruel and disgusting or the God does not even exist Conflict in the book arises: When Akiba the Drummer (whose faith helps Elie undergo for some time) as well as a Rabbi Eliahou whom Eliezer talks to, They also eventually claims that the God's existence is impossible to believe in a world that holds such a large-scale of death factory, deliberate horror as the Holocaust. The final stage for Eliezer's faith comes at Buna, where the prisoners are forced to gathered to watch a young boy be hanged to death. Elie heard someone asking, "Where is God now?" Elie heard his internal voice Echo in himself is that God is that boy on the The three occasions he mentions sons horribly molesting fathers: in his compact discussion of the pipel who betrayed his father. Elie’s terrible conclusion about the motives of Rabbi Eliahou’s son. And his explanation of the fight for food that he eyewitnesses on the train to Buchenwald. In which a son strikes his father till he is dead. All of these times of cruelty are generated by the environment the prisoners are forcible to live. In order to their own survival, these sons betrayed their fathers. Even with the love and care, he has shown his father Elie still feels that he has somehow betrayed his father for his own survival. This example signifies the way the Holocaust has changed Elie’s entire life upturned.He relies on his father for support and his love for his father allows him to live. Their relationship indicates that Eliezer’s love and solidarity are stronger forces of survival than his urge for

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