The Holocaust is an event that should be studied in school classes across the world. Even
though the Holocaust is an event of the past that is very sensitive and tragic it should be
studied because it is an example of dehumanization, hatred, prejudice, brutilization, and
how not to treat people, how not to judge people, and how not to hate people. People
often say that history repeats itself. If we don't study events in history like the Holocaust
then how can know what may happen in the future, or how will we know how to prevent
it from happening again? It is also important for not only Jews, but Gentiles as well, to
study the Holocaust so that they will know and realize what kind of a struggle and
circumstances our ancestors and forefathers had to go through to make our lives and
futures better than theirs had to be.
My knowledge of the Holocaust before studying it was very small. All I knew
about the Holocaust was that, it was an event in history where Jewish people were killed
by a man named Adolf Hitler. I didn't know how cruel and merciless he was. I didn't
know that Jews were considered less than human, and I didn't even know when or where
By visiting the Holocaust museum in Detroit, MI I learned several different things.
I learned that some, if not most people, didn't even care about what was happening to the
Jews. Nobody tried to help them and people barely realized what they were going through.
I saw clippings of newspaper articles that weren't even one fourth of a page long saying
"2 million Jews killed in Germany" or something to that nature. That article showed me
how heartless and inconsiderate some people really are. Before learning about the
Holocaust and visiting the museum I didn't realize that 6 million Jews had been killed. At
the museum they had all the different estimations of how many Jews were killed in
different countries...