Examples Of Holocaust Revisionism

Holocaust Revisionism There is one specific event during World War II that everyone in the world should be aware about and that is the Holocaust. Many of those around the world acknowledge the horrid acts that the Nazi Regime had committed. Yet we still have an overwhelming amount of people that are unaware of what had transpired at those intermit camps or just think that it was all a myth. Elie Wiesel once said, “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Presenting to us that awareness is key and just ideally standing by can do more harm than good. So it should

Not only Implementing the death camps but also ghettoes where masses of Jewish people lived in tightly confined spaces as work force of slave labor. These may have not been as brutal as the death camps but were equality as humiliating and devastating to the jewish communities. Kovno’s was the central of Jewish teaching until, “Kovno's Jewish life was disrupted when the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania in June 1940. The occupation was accompanied by arrests, confiscations, and the elimination of all free institutions.” (United States National Holocaust Museum) The elimination of free institutions was morally repugnant primarily because they banish all Jewish peoples right to practice their own religion or to teach the young. Making these people have more of a chance to lose not only their own lives but the heritage that they have built for so long. Many people in Minsk, Russian were also affected by many of the Reich’s cruel forms of punishment. The United Stated Nation Holocaust museum stated, “24,000 Jews from Germany, Austria, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to Minsk. SS and police authorities shot or gassed-in special gas vans-most of them upon arrival in Maly Trostinets.” (United States National Holocaust Museum) Displaying

(TIME) One particular case that stood out to me was the one with Nat Shaffir. “In February of 1944, all men in the ghetto were told to assemble to be taken away. Shaffir walked with his father to the assembly spot until his father said, “Nat, it’s time for you to go back.” Then he put his hands on his son’s shoulders and said five words that Shaffir would never forget: “Nat, take care of the girls.”” (“Today”) Showing just how cruel the Nazi’s were to Jewish families. They were willing to split them up for no reason, or that they needed more men for slave work. This was one in thousands of cases, and resulted in the majority of Jewish families being split up. Just like Elie Wisel him and his father were separated from his three sisters and mother later. History proclaimed that, “In May 1944, the Nazis deported 15-year-old Wiesel and his family to Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland. Wiesel’s mother and the youngest of his three sisters died at Auschwitz.” (“History”) Not only was his family separate but all the women had perished at Auschwitz, with his father dying right before the camp was liberated in 1945. Not only do we have real life survivors from the holocaust but they have there own stories of the hardships that they were faced with just because of their religious beliefs or the fact that they were deemed inferior by the Nazi