After visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum and studying the Holocaust and the armenian genocide I am just shocked that one group of people what think that they are so superior to another group of people that they would go so far as to try to murder all of them. Studying and learning about all of this has been pretty hard for me, because what happened is just unthinkable for me. This unit has made me realize how lucky I am to have nothing like this ever happen me or anyone else that I have known. It also makes me think about how things were so different back then in the mid 1930s than they are today. What I mean is if someone that had the same or similar views as hitler he would gain basicly no supporters at all. As I walk away from this unit I will always keep in mind that these unspeakable things really did happen, and as someone who has had no real education on this topic before now it's pretty crazy to process that all of this really happened. But by far the most beautiful thing I have read in this unit is Elie Wiesel's nobel peace prize acceptance speech. I was deeply moved when he said, “As long as one child is hungry our life will be filled with anguish and shame.” I think he is so right in saying this because we live in a world that is so different than the 1930s and we still have people that do not have enough to eat.
Owen,
ReplyDeleteI was shocked as well when we in the Holocaust Museum and to me the idea that so many people lost their lives the way that they did is still unthinkable to me.
I completely agree with what you said about how we still have people who do not have enough to eat and how it's so different from the 1930s.
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