gk115+Holocaust+essay

Learn from the Past
**Do you think that kids should learn about the Holocaust? Some schools think that kids cannot take the violence and sadness of this horrible event. The parents are also complaining that it's not appropriate for kids to learn about. They also believe that we lack the knowledge to understand why it happened. The Holocaust is a very important event in history that everyone should learn about. For events as serious as this I'm very sure that kids have the maturity to handle this event. Children need to know what happened during the Holocaust, and they need to learn now at a young age. My opinion is that we should learn about the Holocaust, even though some teachers and parents think so.**

===My first reason is that so us kids can be educated more. If kids don't learn about the Holocaust then we won't even know about all of the people that died. This tragic event should never ever be repeated. This is why it's important to learn what happened during this event. It also teaches courage to those who are getting bullied. If the kids know about the Holocaust, then they'll remember all those brave innocent victims in the Holocaust. Then they'll stand up to the bullies with the thought of the warriors in the Holocaust. Also, it's a big part of Jewish history, and the Jewish kids would feel offended if we did't learn about it.===

===Next I think that kids should learn about it so it doesn't happen again. Here is a quote from a Holocaust survivor. "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 quote is said by Renee Firestone, and the quote is saying that people have wars, kids bully each other, people mug, people kill. What did we learn? The answer is nothing. We only remember the Holocaust as a big killing, and by learning about it at school we can remember it as the biggest show of courage ever. Even though all these horrible things happen, we should never go back to our old ways.===

===Survivors of anything should be respected. Survivors of the Holocaust definetly need to be respected. They showed lots of courage during the Holocaust, even if some people don't think so. "It was a horrible time," said Maud Dahme, "but genocide continues now, over religious and ethnic differences. People living in the same country don't respect each other. We are all the same inside." The quote means that still after this horrible event people still don't respect each other. For example in the movie Bully a kid gets bullied so much that he doesn't even want to live any more, so he kills himself. This is why we need to learn about the Holocaust, we need to learn to respect each other. Respect is a key value and by looking at the way people treat each other now it looks like we know nothing about respect. So, by learning about this horrendous event we could learn that we should not treat each other like dirt sandwiches. We need to make this world a better place, and starting with respect.===

===My dad says " The Holocaust was a horrible event, and if you don't learn about it your education will never be complete. If you never learn about the Holocaust you will never learn to respect other people, and treat them the way you want to be treated. We could learn a lot from the Holocaust. In the book The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, Hannah one of the characters, says "We will survive. The Jews. That what happens here must never happen again." If schools prevent us from learning about the Holocaust, that would be almost as bad as the actual event. The Holocaust was a cruel, murderous, and devilish time, and kids have to learn about it.===