There are many memorials and museums to help teach and remind us about the Holocaust, such as Yad Vashem and the Holocaust exhibit and the Imperial War Museum. These memorials make it so much to relate to horrors and atrocities that took place under Nazi regime.
It is impossible to be able to genuinely relate to the Holocaust survivors. Some of the survivors may still have traumatic nightmares of what they experienced. Those people, who were tattooed with numbers, have life long reminder of what went on in the camps. Some survivors may have physical pains if they were experimented on at Auschwitz, it also left many in women in the state that they could never conceive. We can’t underestimate the pain and suffering these people went through and what the side effects may be. The children of Holocaust survivor may have been affected.
Yom Hashoah is the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day and Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK on the 27th January. On these days and others round the world, many commemorative events take place to help remind us of the importance of remembering the Holocaust.
Remembering and teaching about the Holocaust is one way of preventing a large scale genocide from happening again. There some people for their own personal gain or reason unbeknownst to us choose to openly deny the Holocaust. One such person is David Irving, a well known historian; he doesn’t completely deny the Holocaust but expresses disbelief at the scale of death. To help prevent anti-Semitism Holocaust survivors visit school and discuss their experiences. This help to get children to explore different side of what went on, even if they don’t fully understand the true nature of what happened.
The Holocaust was large factor in the creation of the State of Israel. The concept of the Jews needing a homeland had been played upon for years, but after the Holocaust most Jews in Europe had no where to go. Therefore, plans were that lead to the formation of a Jewish state.
We are easily able to visit concentration camps were the Nazi’s imposed ‘the final solution’, which was Hitler’s plan to eliminate the all Europe’s Jew’s. A plan that Gordon Brown wishes to implement, is to send two six formers from every school to Auschwitz. When they return they can share their journey and what they gained from it with their classmates. Hopefully, this will help prevent anti-Semitism.
I feel that the Holocaust, as tragic as it was, strengthened the Jewish people as a whole. I believe this because through adversity, it allowed us the strength to come together to help to form the State of Israel. As a result of the Holocaust, we as Jews now have the right to go back Israel when ever we please. This result is a safeguard for all Jews in case of persecution.
