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
Chris Bohjalian once said, “But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much Genocide can one sentence handle?” and Elie Wiesel says, “To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.” There is a connection between every genocide, but how much can one sentence actually handle? This is just a repeating thing that keeps on happening and it has gotten to the point where it is not getting any better. If we stop teaching about the Holocaust, it is to kill twice because there will always be that one person who can actually make a huge difference and make good and peace in the world. However, there will always be that one person that has no care for the world and wants to discriminate one race, gender, or religion for no reason, or even because of stereotypes. We should continue teaching about the Holocaust and
The Holocaust was a very impressionable period of time. It not only got media attention during that time, but movies, books, websites, and other forms of media still remember the Holocaust. In Richard Brietman’s article, “Lasting Effects of the Holocaust,” he reviews two books and one movie that were created to reflect the Holocaust (BREITMAN 11). He notes that the two books are very realistic and give historical facts and references to display the evils that were happening in concentration camps during the Holocaust. This shows that the atrocities that were committed during the Holocaust have not been forgotten. Through historical writings and records, the harshness and evil that created the Holocaust will live through centuries, so that it may not be repeated again (BREITMAN 14).
Everyone thought slavery was horrific but what Hitler did to the Jewish community was just as bad, if not, worse. A lot of us are oblivious to what really happened; the Jews were just another minority that got the short end of the stick. Millions of innocent Jews died due to Hitler and his rules.
The Holocaust is considered the largest genocide of our entire world, killing more than 600,000,000 Jewish people during the years of 1933-1945. The memories and history that have filled our lives that occurred during the Holocaust are constantly remembered around the world. Many populations today “think” that constant reminders allow for us to become informed and help diminish the hatred for other races still today. These scholars believe that by remembering the Holocaust, you are able to become knowledgeable and learn how to help prevent this from happening again. Since the Holocaust in a sense impacted the entire human race and history of the world, there are traces of the Holocaust all across our culture today. As I continue to remember the victims of this tragic time period I think of all the ways that our world remembers the Holocaust in today’s society. Through spreading the word, works of media and memorials across the world, I am continually reminded of the tragedy that occurred.
For many years, people time and time again denied the happenings of the Holocaust or partially understood what was happening. Even in today’s world, when one hears the word ‘Holocaust’, they immediately picture the Nazi’s persecution upon millions of innocent Jews, but this is not entirely correct. This is because Jews
Holocaust Hero: A One of a Kind Man. What is a hero? A hero can be classified as a number of things. A hero can be a person who, in the opinions of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal.
Millions upon millions of people were killed in the holocaust, that is just one of many genocides. There are many similarities between different genocides. Throughout history, many aggressors have started and attempted genocides and violence on the basis of someone being the "other".
While both The Congo and The Holocaust have been major events in history, they both hold many differences and similarities within them. The Congo is not quite often taught in schools while The Holocaust is a major part of the academic curriculum in most schools. The reason is unknown since both events have changed history dramatically and caused a vast amount of lives to be lost. The Congo killed an estimated amount of ten million people and about 90% of prisoners of The Congo were severely punished physically and mentally including mutilation, starvation, hard labor, and rape. The Holocaust’s death toll is about six million people. The prisoners of The Holocaust faced similar punishments compared to the ones given during The Congo such as hard
What is genocide? “Genocide is a deliberate, systematic destruction of racial cultural or political groups.”(Feldman 29) What is the Holocaust? “Holocaust, the period between 1933-1945 when Nazi Germany systematically persecuted and murdered millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and many other people.”(Feldman 29) These two things tie into each other.The Holocaust was a genocide. Many innocent people were torn apart from their families, for many never to see them again. This murder of the “Jewish people of Europe began in spring 1941.”( Feldman 213) The Holocaust was one of the most harshest things done to mankind.
The Holocaust is one of the most learned about events in history. The question is, why do we learn about it? We choose to keep the horrors of the Holocaust fresh in our minds and the minds of our children to keep it from ever happening again. The United Nations was formed to keep another World War from happening. We study the Holocaust so that we can identify the early stages of genocide and stop it before it starts. We put so much effort studying history to keep it from repeating itself.
One cold, snowy night in the Ghetto I was woke by a screeching cry. I got up and looked out the window and saw Nazis taking a Jewish family out from their home and onto a transport. I felt an overwhelming amount of fear for my family that we will most likely be taken next. I could not go back to bed because of a horrid feeling that I could not sleep with.
When I was younger, I always knew that my mom took her job very seriously, but I was never able to fully comprehend what she did as a teacher. Once I started getting older, I understood that in order to teach certain topics to students, she had to understand a lot about history. One of the topics she studied in order to teach her students was the history of the Holocaust, which indeed is very serious. Then I began hearing that word, “Holocaust,” in school and made the connection. That’s when the seriousness of her job started to resonate with me as a student as well as her daughter. One could probably say that this topic is interesting to virtually everyone who comes across it. However, for the reasons I indicated, it sparks a little bit more of an interest in me than the average person.
The Holocaust was a time of prejudice, violence, death, and great suffering. Some may say that because of these reasons, the Holocaust should not be taught during the school curriculum, but these reasons are exactly why students should learn about the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic and trying times for the Jewish people. Hundreds of thousands of Jews and other minorities that the Nazis considered undesirable were detained in concentration camps, death camps, or labor camps. There, they were forced to work and live in the harshest of conditions, starved, and brutally murdered. Horrific things went on in Auschwitz and Majdenek during the Holocaust that wiped out approximately 1,378,000 people combined. “There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.” –Fidel Castro
People in the genocide got treated the same as people in the Holocaust. For example they both got treated like animals. The Holocaust begin January 1933 when Hitler gain power, that's when the act of genocide started. (http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_holocaust.html) Another fun fact about the Holocaust is jews were forced out of their homes and moved into smaller apartments, often shared with other families.