Why It's Important To Remember The Holocaust

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The Holocaust It’s important to remember the holocaust for several reasons. To honor the victims and keep their memory alive. For us to be aware. Most important to keep such a thing from happening again. The holocaust is a historical tragedy that affected the entire globe. There are still people alive today who suffered and survived the holocaust. They lost everything such as their families, homes and cultural histories have been demolished. If that does not explain "remembering" a devastating part of history I don't know what does. How can anyone forget? The Holocaust was the murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis,…show more content…
The crimes committed during the Holocaust devastated most European Jewish communities and eliminated hundreds of Jewish communities in occupied eastern Europe entirely. The Holocaust must be remembered as a unique atrocity, distinct from any other. To compare the Holocaust with Hiroshima, for example, denies and hides the historic role of German and Christian anti-Semitism that lead to and helped Hitler's theories. Therefore, such a comparison shows that Americans are no worse than the Nazis, and that Hitler was no worse than Truman. So how could we forget about something so tragic? Now if we keep this memory and teach it to our future generations this atrocity could be avoided. Us the human race realized how barbaric this act really was. It made us look like savages. And never again we should ever do this to another race. Also people can’t say that this never happened. We remember and this must not be a matter of rhetoric but must be a commitment to action. That never again will we be indifferent to incitement and hate, that never again will we be silent in the face of evil, that never again will we indulge racism and anti-Semitism, that never again will we ignore the plight of the vulnerable, that
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