Essay About The Holocaust

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Holocaust and Genocide Studies Growing up as a white American girl with a computer in her home, wifi, a place to sleep and go to at night, always having dinner on the table and little snacks to nibble on, I never really appreciated the situation I was in. I think a majority of young people, and even older people, in well-established countries don’t either. Until I was taught about the struggle of other people from countries I never think of, I never thought about my privilege. When I started learning of mass starvation, poverty, and war, I found that the more I knew the more I appreciated how I was born. This is why I think all people should be educated about the Holocaust and other genocides. Teenagers today, …show more content…

I was not aware of the other groups of people also killed in the Holocaust and some of the most intricate, graphic details were never taught to me in regular history classes. I was also not aware of how many genocides have occurred. The brutality of the Nazis towards the Jews, disabled, and etc. was not fully known to me. I was shocked in a way, but also not. I knew that humans could do terrible things, but the pictures and stories made it real. Everyone should learn about it. In studying the Holocaust and other genocides, I’m more aware of things going on around me. As we were doing research for the project and read up on the Congo, there were tons of articles on what is happening there today and I realized that all the killings from the Zaire genocide did not stop in 1997. They are still happening today. Mass rapes and kidnappings are occurring in not only the Congo but many other countries as well. The media does not cover all of it, they only cover the “mainstream” things. The research helped me become more aware of the issues going on that aren’t mainstream media. The wars in African countries are just as bad as what is going on in Iraq and the Sudan, but they are looked at as “less important.” They are just as important. Human rights are important and I didn’t really think of that before studying all of the

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