History class in itself has a specific purpose which seems to be frequently forgotten. We learn about violent and horrible events in our past, as well as life- changing and positively impacting ones. From the negative events, we learn what went wrong and how to prevent similar tragedies from happening. From the positive, we gather knowledge and comprehension of the basis of our modern society. We are a self- repairing race, analyzing every flaw and figuring out what caused it. It's an ancient practice, trial and error is human nature.
However, one of these "errors" hold a specific purpose in history classes. Similar, yet different. The Holocaust was so intesely horrific, so widespread, and such a strong point in history. Learning about it
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He made laws, created a metaphorical fence around his territory so that the Jewish could not leave. He was the first to use such an approach- and no one knew what was happening. If only someone had known to stop him, recognized what he was doing, the "Holocaust" may not have come to be.
Sadly, we have not the ability to change the past. THe Holocaust did come eventually, before anyone caught Hitler. We learn how easily an antire continent can be changed. We must be taught how the military can be utilized in evil ways, so that the country itself becomes nothing more than said military. Millions of innocent people were killed. The incident was so unique and horrific in nature that a word was created: "genocide". The term means "the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group." Words like this are not solely taught to students to add to their vocabulary. These terms are used as tools. They are utilized in the recognition of similar crimes, so that we have a way to classify issues and react in the proper way. During the Holocaust, false stereotypes were the basis that death was taken upon. some of the platforms used were purely false, yet people still believed. Why? Simply because of two reasons. One being that Hitler, according to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, was "a passionate and convincing speechgiver". Apart from this, people did not know. The country had no idea how
For the past 300 years, the world’s society has displayed lots of unbelievable human cruelty. For example, slavery in the 18th and 19th century, African Americans were forced into harsh work labor because of their skin color. Then in the 20th century, a determined dictator, Adolf Hitler, murdered and tortured eleven million lives. This horrifying event was called the Holocaust, it occurred in 1933 but ended in 1945. Adolf Hitler was angered about the result of World War 1, so he blamed Jewish people, the disabled, and other groups. During the holocaust, the eleven million lives were forced into harsh work labors or was put into gas chambers and was killed instantly. People described the Holocaust as inhumane act, and the people that survived it, could really say it was a scarring memory.
The Holocaust was a point in time when there was a mass murder of James under the German Nazi reason during the period Of 1933 - 1945 we recently read a book written by survivor and his experience through 3 Conce Camp setting the Holocaust candy and transformative learning experience because it teaches us how to prevent this from happening you're doing and preserve the memory. Prevention be an action that can be easy or hard to do Elie Wiesel a survivor writes ‘human rights are being violated on every continent more More people are being oppressed than free how can one not be sensitive to their plight?Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.Stating that close we're close To it happening again if we don't take action learning this will prevent another dictator coming to power
Growing up, people learn about the past of their own kind and of the world they live in. One reads history in books, hears history from parents, and studies history at schools. Knowing the history of one's ancestors allows one to understand the past and change for a better future. Significant battles, civil movements, and reformations teach people valuable lessons and help the society to improve. The Holocaust, one of the most well-known history events, represents a perfect historical example of discrimination and racism. However, a number of people started to deny the known facts of the Holocaust and even the event itself. Despite of what these people say and how convincing their reasons are, this piece of history is to be protected from
The Holocaust was a terrible thing that happened in history. There was a lot of violence but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t learn about it. Yes, it’s said that sometimes violence can corrupt a kids mind, but if you teach it in a good non aggressive way then they will understand what the Holocaust is other than how they killed the people.
The Jewish Holocaust could be, and is, widely accepted as one of the most brutal and damaging atrocities ever to occur in the history of humanity. The level of brutality brought on by this atrocity is to such a degree that whenever the word “Holocaust” is mentioned it is not the Greek origins of “offer burning” that comes to mind; but, instead, the thought that resonates is the death of approximately 6 million Jews and other minorities brought on by racial hatred, radical ideology, and established prejudice (p. vii). There is no question that a main goal, and often argued by historians as Hitler’s topmost priority, in order to create Third Reich, that would supposedly last 1,000 years, was to expel Europe of any Jewish presence. Nonetheless, similar to that of any large scale operation, an expulsion of Jews from Europe would take time and different phases to achieve efficiently and effectively. The Nazi program, according to Bergen’s ‘War and Genocide”, would attempt to accomplish this through five phases: support and encourage public oppression of Jews, isolation of Jews from the community, mass killings, and, lastly, the “Final Solution.”
This is something that I really had an interest in. This project assignment really gave me the chance to dig deeper and do more research on the Holocaust and how the Jews were treated during WWII and during the 13th and 14th century in Europe. What happened during the Holocaust was such a horrible thing, but it makes me appreciate everything in today’s world.
The Holocaust was the defining event of the modern era for Judaism. It changed the Jewish community’s perception of the world, as well as the world’s perception of the Jewish community. It cost six million people their lives, eliminating about one third of the Jewish population. Mankind witnessed the most destructive act of evil it has ever seen. Evil, in fact, seems an understatement. The horrors of the Holocaust are inexplicable, ever more so for those that did not experience it. "But even after such an event, the faith of the Jewish people is strong perhaps stronger now than it ever has been before. Still, for the believer it is often difficult to reconcile the notion of an all power God with the Holocaust,
It is human logic to attempt the prevention of undesired occasions. The Holocaust is only one of the extreme cases that most people wish would have never happened. It is vital that we as a nation, continue educating future generations on the lessons learned by the Holocaust in order to avoid them being manipulated by future leaders, for them to understand human equality, and to learn to be active bystanders.
The human race has known many tragedies and has time and again shown what they are capable of. The events surrounding the atrocity that would later be known as the Holocaust left a lasting and deep scar on the history of the human race. It left the world reeling and we promised to never let it happen again. Education about this event became so important. However, across the world, the Holocaust is taught differently as a result of national identity.
During World War II, one of the greatest horrors of war was happening. The mass genocide of not only the Jewish people but also Russian prisoners of war, Gypsies, Polish and Ukrainian people (Wistrich, 2003, Pg. 3-4, a). The horror also included the German people themselves. Ones that were handicapped, mentally ill, homosexuals, some religious people, members of labor unions, and political rivals where all part of the Holocaust (Berenbaum, 2011, a). On March twentieth nineteen hundred and thirty-three Hitler opened up the first concentration camp near Dachau Germany (Landau, 1998, Pg. 136, a). From there the German government began sending people to concentration camps to work and to die. Whom they sent, why they sent them,
One reason we study the Holocaust is for future reference. Six million Jewish men, women, and children all died because Hitler told his men to kill them. We teach people about this so we don't have someone else repeat it. Now that almost everyone knows about the Holocaust we won't have people that go along with any plan like that. It also teaches people that if they do try this they will be stopped and they will be killed or they will be in a lock down prison the rest of their life.
As children we quickly learn from our mistakes, when a little kid puts their hand on a hot stove they pull it away quickly because it hurts. As adults, we learn to make informed decisions about politics and our life based on what had happened in the past. The reason why we take a history class is so we can learn from our past mistakes. We look at the way people did things in the past and we have the privilege of seeing how it ended for them, so we can form our own opinions and ideas from it. For example, today we are much more aware of foreign crisis because of the Holocaust. No one wants to see something like the Holocaust happen again so we are doing our best to find a safe way to fight ISIS and other similar groups. People can also make
During the time in my history class, at first I’m wondered to myself, why do I need to learned the things from past. My life wouldn’t change because of history. I mean it already happens and nobody can change anything so just let it stand there and move on.
I believe that history should be taught in schools. If history is taught in an engaging way, teens will have the ability to learn about the significance of past events and personalities, and can relate them to their own lives. History is also an important part of education. The past reminds us where we came from, and where we can go in our future. Learning from history and the past prevents us from making the same mistakes the others have made in the past. History is not just emotional, or boring at all. It’s a good thing to learn about the people who made a huge impact in the past, and learn from it. This is why history is so important, so we do not forget or loose who we are, and aim high for the future.
The most significant thing I have learned from this class was that one is never done learning. I say this because I had previously thought I knew the basics of our history, so I was expecting a class that resembled what I had learned in my previous classes. But, this course was the exact opposite. My mind has been expanded and fixed with knowledge that seems too controversial to be taught. Once a great Roman author, Cicero, had said “To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child." And going back to this quote, I feel as though I was a child as I begun this history course.