Discrimination is a very common thing that people have to deal with. It’s that sad truth that the world is filled with intolerance and hate. The Holocaust and school segregation may seem like they are very different, but both horrible, events. However, both of these events show how discrimination has affected people throughout history. Both the articles “Buchenwald Concentration Camp” by the Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team, and “Imagine This Was Your School” by Scholastic convey a similar point. These two articles show that despite the many efforts to try and prevent discrimination, people of various races still face challenges, despite the fight against discrimination over years, and people are still trying to fight it.
In the article “Buchenwald Concentration
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The first piece of information that the article provides is that thousands of Jews and people of other races were sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. In paragraph 7 of the article it says, “The outbreak of war was accompanied by a wave of arrests throughout the Reich, which brought thousands of political prisoners to Buchenwald. This was followed by an influx of thousands of Poles, who were housed in the tent camp. As of 1943 following the completion of armament factories in the vicinity of the camp, the number of prisoners grew steadily to 63,048 by the end of 1944 and to 86,232 in February 1945” (Holocaust Research Project, 1). This paragraph provides the reader with the information needed to come to the assumption that the concentration camp was overcrowded, causing the living conditions at the camp to be very harsh. To add to the last point, the text elaborates more on the harsh living conditions of Buchenwald. Paragraph 24 of the text it says, “The prisoners were led into a long room, made to lay their belongings on a long table and lie down on the cold tiled floor to sleep. Ordered