What Lessons We Have Learned From The Holocaust Essay

There are many reasons as to why it is vital that the lessons we have learned from the Holocaust be passed on to new generations. It’s honestly so insane that one human being was responsible for such a violent act. One human being had the power to kill over thousands of people. One human being had the heart and soul so cold enough to be able to plan and succeed in doing such an inhumane act. The learning and understanding of this barbarous era can really show people that a human being was and is capable of doing such an inhumane act, that then and even now racism still exists, and that we couldn’t and still cannot solve a situation if we just choose to be bystanders and keep silent. The lessons we have learned from the Holocaust should never …show more content…
If we let this die, people in new generations wouldn’t know the suffering a majority of people had to go through. They wouldn’t know that many countries that Hitler and the Nazis took over were not at peace for a very long time because people were being killed for pointless reasons. Although us knowing about this massacre won’t change the fact that innocent people lost their lives, we will at least know that these people went through hell and back. These people weren’t heroic or soldiers that fought for our country, but if they couldn’t be saved, then the least we could do is keep them in …show more content…
One of the main reasons of why people are still committing genocide, why racism and the bystander effect still exists, why this world still isn’t at peace, is because the things we learn from the Holocaust and many horrible events before and after that are not being mentioned enough times. We need to talk more about it and make people, whether they are the victim or the perpetrator, realize that if we stop mentioning these types of topics, then it can result to be so much worse than it already was and