lj114+Holocaust

=//Holocaust History Horrors//=

==Do you know about that extremely tragic event in the mid nineteen hundreds, where people called Nazis took their hatred of Jews over the limit? Well, if you do not, it is called the Holocaust. The Holocaust started in 1939. It is the time where some Germans developed a hatred for Jews, expanded the hatred, and killed six million Jews. Jane Yolen wrote a poem called, The Alphabet of Evil, and said, "It begins with Adolph Hitler,goes to the Zondercommandos ends with the ordinary citizen turning in his neighbor, a sheckle for a traitor, a groat for a Jew." Should kids learn about this? Some parents say no because they are too young, but we want to teach them while they are young. I believe that sixth graders should learn about the horiffic, terrible, tradgic Holocaust.==

==One reason that middle school kids should learn about the Holocaust is that learning can prevent it from happening again. We can reverse-use the information to prevent another event like it. My mother said, "This generation needs to understand what happened so it will not happen again." Do you think that learning about the Holocaust will prevent another one from happening again? I do. And a lot of others do. Some may say that it is too disturbing to learn about, but it would be more disturbing if it happened again. We do not want to lose another eleven million people of our population.==

==Also, we have learned about other disturbing, cruel, and evil events in history. Another reason is that we learn about events similar to this in history. Remember the African-Americans, and how they were being treated terribly for over a century? Or how about the Native Americans. They were kicked out of their homes and made into slaves. Because I am Jewish, I have strong feelings about this event. Although, I feel strongly about other events against certain races. I understand that over six million Jews were killed, but we have learned about other terrible events.In the book //Devil's Arithmetic//, Gitl asks, "They taught you the Christian calendar in Lublin?" Present day, Jews around the world use Christian things and do them, too. Why can't they learn about our history?==

==Most importantly, it is reality. In the book //Devil's Arithmetic//, Gitl says, "In this place, he is just a Jew." It is reality that the Nazis were malevolent people and hated Jews. It is reality that they put them in gas chambers and made other Jews drag them away. It is reality that they were barely fed. It is reality that instead of respecting Jews, they took away their names and called them by numbers, gave them rags to were as clothing, and shaved their heads for "lice".This is all reality and nothing can change it. Why ignore reality? It may be depressing, but you can not ignore life. History. Other people. Somebody I interviewed said, "It is a very sad and disturbing event, but it is reality." Some how, knowledge will help us in this case.==

==Even though the Holocaust is a really sad event in history, we should learn about it because of how terrifying and unrealistic it was. Some kids may know a lot about the Holocaust, but some of them have barely ever heard of it. What would happen if this event was lost in history in this generation? Well, it would not be good. Renee Firestone, a Holocaust survivor says, "I wonder whether the world learned anything. The way you look around the world today you wonder - What did we learn from the Holocaust?” A lot of people did not learn anything from the Holocaust, because they did not LEARN the Holocaust. For our new generation, our safety, and our world, sixth graders should learn about the Holocaust.==