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Mackenzie Brown 4/29/14 Period 7/8 __Holocaust Essay__

Forever Remembering

Imagine, being woken in the middle of the night by a complete stranger and dragged out of bed. Imagine, being herded into trucks to camps where you were going to die. Imagine. This isn’t a nightmare or a scary story. This is what life was like for Jews, Gypsies, and anyone else inferior to Hitler during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a horrible time, we must learn about it to prevent any other genocides, to give people hope, and respect the people who have experienced it.

Have you ever heard of the saying, “Kids are the future”? Well we are. Knowing the tragedies and how bad it was, we can be able to prevent other genocides. If we are still morning today about the Holocaust, why would we let it happen again? Eli Wisel once said, “ To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.” To prevent we must learn. Teachers must teach us the travesties. Although some teachers may protest that it’s too horrible to teach, how are we supposed to prevent other genocides if we don’t even know about it. Some scholars don’t even know what the Holocaust is.

The Holocaust was a terrible time, but it teaches us a lesson. We must have hope. Out of 3,000,000 Polish Jews, ten percent survived. Although this is a thin amount, you have to realize how much hope they had. Each day people were being chosen, and they could have been chosen too but they kept going keeping the idea of hope in their minds. When you have a bad day, just remember the people who survived and how much hope they had. Written on a wall in a concentration camp were these words, “ I believe in the sun when it isn’t shining, and I believe in love even when I am alone, and I believe in God even when he is silent.”

Respect. You may have not been in the Holocaust, you may not know the pain, but show that you care. Survivors of the Holocaust have been through a lot. The least we could do is respect them. Show them you care, show them you're still mourning. The Jews and many others had a hard struggle. They were beaten, starved and deprived. You can’t tell them you know how they feel, but you can respect them.

Holocaust. A time of struggle and death. Holocaust. The biggest genocide. Holocaust. A terrible time to hard to understand. But understanding and remembering are two different different things. Remembering is to learn from our mistakes and prevent. Understanding is just knowing. Students must be taught about this tragedy, we must learn, we must remember, we must prevent.

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