Elie Wiesel's The Joy Of Studying The Holocaust

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”- Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor. Though all the pain that so many suffered, our world can not afford to have another national crises that shook the hearts of so many like the holocaust did. Out of the Nine million living jewish people in europe during 1933 only three to four million survived the holocaust. With germany's weak government, Adolf Hitler rose to power. He became a strong person in germany by putting false messages in the people’s minds. Soon Hitler attracted a wide variety of citizens who wanted a change in government and policies. Hitler controlled a vast military known as the nazis for when Hitler

In fact it was estimated that as many as 1.5 million children were murdered in the holocaust. Jewish people were not the only religion that the pain and suffering was directed at. Many gypsy families and people with handicapped abilities were put in concentration camps, some did not even make it as far as the concentration camps. Studying the Holocaust was a great but sad experience because I learned of all the horrible things that happened people, The thing the struck me the most was learning about how the children did not get any better treatment. Boys and girls my age were living a nightmare. But now I know that this can never happen again at all, and other people must study the holocaust to understand this.“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.” Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor. This quote by Elie Wiesel shows that we must always stand up for what's right and doing nothing will just help the tormentor or

Many people were too scared to take a stand and help the religions and races that were targeted in the holocaust. But if we ever forget all the pain and suffering then this could easily happen again, “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” – Primo Levi. It is up to us to spread the tragic story of the Holocaust to make sure the common man does not let these evil monsters of our world to come to power ever again. We must also think about the people who have lived through the holocaust and how hard it has been for them to come back into society after seeing the things they saw, most at a very young age. The Holocaust should be a motivation to stand up and to speak up for human rights not only as separate countries but as a nation