The Holocaust, Gypsies And Mentally Disabled Survivor

Upon reading the information that is presented within the book, I was unaware of all the genocides that have occurred throughout the essence of time. Before reading the text, I truly did not have a complete understanding of what the term “Genocide” meant. I always thought the term used in areas involving experimentation, but I quickly realized that the term means the ultimate destruction through mass killings of those within a country that are thought of as inferior or as threat to the abiding nation. Before reading the book, the only genocide that I had prior knowledge about was the Holocaust that cost the lives of many Jews, Gypsies, and Mentally Disabled patients. In prior history classes, I learned about some of the issues factoring into the Holocaust of a nation of inferior people…but I had never considered it as a true statement of “genocide”. …show more content…
Boy and the Stripped Pajamas, and The Book Thief), fiction and non-fiction books (ex. Diary of Anne Frank, The Upstairs Room, and Number the Stars) I quickly realized that the events that those involved faced…witnessed an essence of life harsh that their eyes were unfortunately unable to un-see. I have realized through reading the book that anyone whom was involved in any measure of genocide faced the ultimate torment and death just the same as those who were unfortunate to face it through the Holocaust. I also did not realize until I started reading the book, that behind each genocide…there has been some “reasoning” (in some minds) for as to why it