Two Words Never Forget The Holocaust

Imagine being on the run for fourteen days, no food, no water and no stopping. Your running until the point where your legs become numb, and you cannot take the flaming taste of a dry mouth and burning bleeding lips. This is exactly what happened to a young man who was forced to flee a genocide in Myanmar, just last year. Good morning 8A and Ms. Cosman. Today, I am here to talk about the significance of the two words never forget. It is crucial that we never forget the Holocaust so that we can learn important lessons to avoid future genocides. Unfortunately, to this day genocides are happening all around the world. It is important that we know why these things keep happening so we can prevent these horrific events from happening again. …show more content…
Martin Luther King Junior said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." A completely different point of view was put on the Holocaust rather than slavery in America, even though the same sort of thing was happening in both countries. If you think about it, both the Jews and the African Americans were starting to lose rights in both time periods, however, only one decided to speak out about it. Prior to the Holocaust, no one spoke out about the slight changes to the Jewish lifestyle. What harm could a curfew and wearing a yellow star have? It wasn’t bad enough to seem outrageous. These small steps were what lured in people to think what was happening was normal. Although, as more laws were passed, worse things started to happen. We must learn that events like the Holocaust happen slowly, in small steps. Speaking out just like Martin Luther King Junior can save millions of …show more content…
However, countries are focused on improving issues inside the actual country, unless if something is happening in a country like them. For example, not one western country is trying to end violence in Sudan, because why would countries like Canada need to help people in Africa. It’s not on the news and barely anyone in North America knows about it. But, if people were being murdered on the streets of Britain there would be an outpour of support from tons of countries and it would end immediately. It is just like the Holocaust, did most Christians really care that Jews were being murdered, they were just Jews how were they relevant to them. To add on, individual people are so focused on themselves and are too busing shopping or playing on their phones to notice what horrible things are happening right now. In the end, people only care about themselves, they don’t need to go out of their way to do something when it is irrelevant to