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.