My Holocaust Essay

The Holocaust has forever altered the world. Most people who try to describe it cannot, and the ones that can, often cannot tell the whole story, as it is too painful. This is why I am honoring the people who are working to educate the world on this matter. Individuals who write about the Holocaust strive to make sure this atrocity never happens again. There are museums that dedicate their existence solely to education about the Holocaust. Many people are working hard so that the Holocaust and other events will never happen again. People are keeping the knowledge of the Holocaust alive. Through individuals who write about the Holocaust, the education of the world grows broader. Education, the sharing of knowledge, is the way to keep another Holocaust from happening.

The Nazis who ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945, when Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered, thought that the Jewish people were of inferior class. Fortunately, today’s society has seen that this is an erroneous assumption.

Keeping the knowledge of the Holocaust alive leaves a “living legacy.” When people know about the Holocaust, they remember it, and they pass their knowledge on to others. This way, their knowledge spreads like a ripple, like a drop of water hitting the surface of a pond. Many people do not know about the Holocaust, and need to be told. The brave people that do talk about the Holocaust are the people who deserve to be honored even more than everyone else. These people are truly “leaving a living legacy.”

“We are all different; because of that, each of us has something different and special to offer and each and every one of us can make a difference by not being indifferent,” said Henry Friedman, Chairman of the Holocaust Education Centre in Seattle, Washington on the website “Hopesite.ca”. We need to celebrate and honor our differences. Differences help us make contributions to our world, because everyone is needed. Genocides begin because a group of people does not like another group of people due to differences in religion, race, sex, or some other belief. Differences should not force one People to be killed; they should give that People a right to live. Differences are reason to live; they are not a reason to die. When we are indifferent, the world suffers, as hate is not the opposite of love, but indifference truly shows that we do not care for someone. Why, then, did many stay quiet?