My Memory

I was chosen to undergo an experiment that wipes the mind clean of memories. The doctors told me that they could save one memory, for some odd reason, and I could pick it. This blog is about that one memory. That one memory that would be the only thing I kept in my mind for the remaining years I walk the earth. There is one memory that I always one that I have cherished. It is about my grandmothers fifty-ninth birthday and I had all of my family together. My family that lives in Georgia, I mean. . All of my mom's family was there, including my great-grandparents. My biological dad was there. I was six and my brother was four. I remember feeling happy and energetic. Also, I felt mad because Mom kept pestering me about letting Nana open her own gifts and that I needed to sit down on my pillow. I kept saying to myself that I would get away with it. I thought that I would go to bed with no punishment, which I did!

When I think about this memory, emotions run over me like jumping in an ice cold pool. I feel a sense of innocence, love, and pure joy. I didn’t know it, but I would soon loose two people out of the room. I felt that I didn’t have a care in the world. I thought the people around me would always be there and that thirteen looked a million miles away. My brother looked so small to me! He looked like a mouse!

After I loose the link of the past in my mind, I think that wasn’t that long ago. The truth is, I’m right! I was only a couple of years ago. I have loved this memory and thought of it in rough times. I think of how I must have looked to my family. The thing that kills me, though, is that some of my family doesn’t remember that memory at all! So, as time goes on I still cherish that memory and dream of it. I never get tired of it.

The Importance of the Holocaust

I'm very glad for many reasons that we studied about the Holocaust. The main reason is to learn to respect the human race. Through the years, Jews were persecuted and killed for just being different. All the way through history, Jews were said to be the source of economic, social, and political problems, and this led to the Holocaust in Germany. The Jews were still human beings, but to many, they weren’t. Hitler saw them as the source of the German problems in the German Depression. He invaded countries killing twelve-million Jews in Europe.

My grandmother went to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. On one of the buildings where there had been gas chambers, on a solid white wall is painted, in big, black letters, “Never Again.” It is there to remind us NEVER even to think about doing or allowing something that evil again. It is there to tell us not to follow people like Adolf Hitler, who have so much hatred, and not to let prejudice make us do things that we know are really wrong.Discrimination is still going on today. We judge people by how they think, dress, or talk. We also judge people who are different races, cultures, or religions from us. When we think, “They look ugly,” they might think the same thing about us. The Jews were killed just for being different! They were doing better than the Germans, so the Germans got jealous. How many of us get jealous because someone has more money than we do, or has a better grade than ours? That’s exactly how the Germans felt. The Holocaust is a prime example of jealousy and judgment. I don’t know about others, but I am going to think twice before I judge or am jealous of someone.