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The 8 Stages Of Genocide: Night By Gregory H. Stanton

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According to DO Something, "In Israel, the Knesset made Holocaust Remembrance Day (also known as Yom Hashoah) a national holiday in 1959" (1). The Holocaust was the killing of around 6 million Jews. The person who was behind all this killing was Adolf Hitler. "The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed inferior" (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 1). The Jews were put into concentration camps and were only given a small amount of food. They were forced to work until they died of any type of disease, hunger, injuries, or just killed. However, some people believe genocide should not be considered genocide, …show more content…

Stanton explains that genocidal acts and killing a whole or a part is still genocide. It also leads you to understand that genocide is a process that goes through 8 stages. In the article The 8 stages of Genocide, the author states, "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". Another example would be in the memoir Night, the author states in page 34, "Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never". The quote from the 8 stages of genocide, shows how genocide means the killing a group in whole or in part. Some people consider genocide the murder of a whole group, but in reality it can be a part or a majority of a group. The quote from Night shows how Elie is losing everything all because of how the Germans are treating them as if they were nothing much but slaves. These quotes are …show more content…

According to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the author states, "The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide, (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide, ( c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide, (d) Attempt to commit genocide, or (e) Complicity in genocide". In the memoir Night, the author states, "I too had become a different person. The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded—and devoured—by a black flame". The quote from Night describes how his experience during the Holocaust has changed the person he used to be. The quote from the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide explains the ways that can show how you have committed even if you didn't physically kill anyone. These quotes are important because they show how the Holocaust should be considered an act of

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