5601+Holocaust+Essay

What if someone told you that your family was being resettled? Only to find out later, that you were being sent to a concentration camp. Some people think that sixth graders shouldn’t learn about the Holocaust, but I think we should. the Holocaust is a very important topic that we should learn about. Sixth graders should study the Holocaust.

One reason why sixth graders should study the Holocaust is so that something like this won’t happen again. In the Holocaust, people were treated inhumanely. We don’t want people to live like this again. Some places are having genocides today. A genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people. A certain place is Burma, Myanmar, Asia. Some people try to ignore the fact that genocides are happening, but if the U.S makes the same mistake like in the past, another Holocaust could occur.

Another reason why we should learn about this topic, is so we respect the survivors and remember the ones who died. Kids our age and younger lived through it. They survived this horrible event. We also can’t forget the innocent people who died at these camps. Some adults think only Jews died at these camps, but millions of other people the Nazis didn’t like got killed, too. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” A woman named Corrie Ten Boom hid Jews in her house and when the Nazis found them, they took her to a camp. She said this quote after she survived. The reason they survived, was because of strength and hope.

The last reason why sixth graders should be educated on the Holocaust is to teach students lessons. Nazis mistreated everyone they hated just because that person was different. Some students bully, but just because they hate someone, doesn’t mean that person deserved it. “I wonder whether the world learned anything. “The way you look around the world today you wonder- What did we learn from the Holocaust?” This is a quote by Renee Firestone who was a survivor at Auschwitz. As the Holocaust was happening, the U.S didn’t say anything.If something is wrong, say something! Nothing was done to help, so the Holocaust did happen.

Even though some people try to ignore the Holocaust, most people would try to remember it for the sake of the survivors. The Holocaust was a tragic time, but it was a joyful time when they were freed. What did we learn from the Holocaust? For the sake of the survivors, sixth graders should study the Holocaust.

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