What is the value of a child? A child is the most precious gift God gives, "children are a heritage of the Lord." (Psalm 127:3) Our generation has become obsessed with the destruction of this priceless gift, a child. We find gangs warring against other gangs because of race and prejudice, children murdering children in our school systems, and mothers killing their babies before they were even born. This is not a natural way of life; God meant for us to love one another. This behavior is not a sign of love, but hate. Hitler planned to make a "pure and perfect" race, which began with hate and prejudice of people he considered less than perfect. After all, Hitler believed that the "only stable emotion is hate." Hate is where the Holocaust began, and hate runs rapid in our society today. Children are abandoned and left to take care of themselves and forced to live on the streets. In many areas of the world, children beg for food and money. Too often there are instances where newborn babies are left in garbage bins to die, and other children die from neglect or serious abuse.
             The impact of horrible experiences the persecuted children encountered during the Holocaust is immeasurable. Of the few survivors who lived their childhood through the war years, many were understandably emotionally disabled by the ordeal, and others cannot stand to relate in words the pain of their memories. A child is a precious object, a sponge ready to soak up life and all its experiences. Over a million children were erased from our world, killed because of their race, and helpless victims of intense hatred. We must look at their deaths as a witness of the cruelty hidden in humans, which may be released if a future Holocaust was to arise. Only by understanding the potential of corruption in all of us may we prevent another tragedy. Youth is priceless, and we must remember the children who were sacrificed for a depraved concept, and insure that th...