fm115+Holocaust+Persuasive+Essay

=== In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. Because of his hate for Jewish people, he recruited Nazi's to capture Jews of all ages and put them in put them in "Concentration" Camps. In the end, six million Jewish people were killed. Some of the people who were in the Holocaust were sixth graders, yet parents today still think that //their// sixth grader is too young //just to learn// about the Holocaust. Because of this and many more reasons, I believe that sixth graders should learn about the Holocaust. ===

=== Some parents believe that their sixth grade student is too young and immature to learn about the Holocaust, but I disagree. When you say that a sixth grader is too immature to learn about the Holocaust, you are disrespecting the people who had to go through it. Sixth graders were put in Concentration Camps, yet you still say that our sixth graders of today are too young to learn about it? When a girl asked why they just start reading a book about the Holocaust, whereas they have to get a signed permission slip for other books. Her mother replied, "Why? Because the permission slip, for the sake of full disclosure, would have to say something like this: "We would like your permission to forever change the way your child looks at the world, to shatter her innocence about the depths of evil, to singe images into her brain she will never be able to erase. Be advised that if your child currently believes that humanity is basically decent, this book will instantly cure her of that illusion. Be further advised that if your child believes that God or you *or* your spouse will always protect her from evil, this book will teach her otherwise. And if your child is currently under the impression that another Holocaust is impossible, she will start to question that belief when she learns that the Jews of Europe thought it was impossible too." ===

=== We can learn a lot about courage from the Holocaust. Even though Jewish people were stripped of their identity and given a number, their clothes taken and given rags, and given barely any food, some of them still had the courage to survive. A quote from the book, //The Devils Arithmetic//, gives a few more examples. In the authors notes, Jane Yolen says, "All the facts about the horrible routinization of evil in the camps is true: the nightmare journey in the cattle cars, the shaving of heads, the tattooing of numbers, the separation of families, the malnutrition, and the musselmen and the Kommandos." Some people in the camps even had enough courage to give up their lives to save family and friends, like how Hannah in The Devils Arithmetic pretended to be Rivka and got gassed to save her. Hannah said, "Run for your life, Rivka. Run for the future. Run. Run. Run. And remember." But if we stop learning about the Holocaust, then who will remember it? The Holocaust also teaches us not to be prejudice. And the Holocaust started because of Adolf Hitler being prejudice against certain people. Like Robert Fulghum said, "We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box." ===

=== If we don't learn about the Holocaust in sixth grade, history could repeat itself. "Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it," quoted George Santayana. My mother also said, "I feel like the Holocaust is a very important period of history to study, even though it is a painful and horrible thing to learn about. We need to learn about it so that it never happens again." Some people say that it will scare us to learn about such an event and how it could even happen again, but not only is it another good example of why we need to learn about the Holocaust, it is disrespecting the people who went through it. Thousands of kids our age had to live through the Holocaust and see hundreds of people die in front of their eyes each day, yet people still think sixth graders of today are too immature to just learn about it? Regardless of the horrors in the Holocaust, sixth graders should be taught about it. ===

=== Even though the Holocaust was a grim event in history, I still believe that sixth graders should be taught about it. You may be too scared to learn about the Holocaust, but that would just be disrespecting the people who went through it. Would you rather learn about the Holocaust now, or have it happen again later? To gain courage, respect the people of the past, and protect the people of the future, sixth graders should be taught about the Holocaust. ===