The Holocaust's Influence On The World

The Holocaust, was an event of massive genocide that sparked up war and killed at least a million people. It should be studied in detail due to the fact that many people are ignorant to the events that actually occurred and do not understand what happened and how people continue to struggle. The Holocaust greatly influenced many people and many nations and even today, it continues to affect the world, and thus what actually happened should be widely known. The Holocaust influenced many people, and countries and contrary to popular belief many people have no idea what happened. The people of Israel for example, the Palestinians are completely ignorant to the struggles the Jewish suffered and think only of their own sufferings (Greenberg, 2014, para.6). This is just one of the instances in which people are not aware of what occurred or are even blinded by the media and their surrounding peers as to what really happened. …show more content…
In Israel for example the Jewish sought out refuge after the Holocaust in massive amounts causing great displacements. The Jewish needed somewhere to go and the place they arrived to was inhabited by the Palestinians, these Palestinians had to be displaced and were sometimes even threatened by the arrival. It has been stated that the Palestinians are being “slaughtered every day at the hands of the occupiers” proving that this migration and the acceptance of the Jewish, did not come without its price (Greenberg, 2014, para. 19). The presence of the Holocaust remains even in the United States, where radical groups use symbols of “intense hatred”, such as the swastika, a Nazi symbol, to inspire fear and promote white supremacy (Schofield, 2015,