The Holocaust is without a doubt one of the most disturbing moments in history. For many years, schools have been trying to teach students about the existence of the Holocaust with an aim of ensuring that its events do not get lost. However, the case in which the Rialto school district gave eighth-grade students an assignment to read a few articles and conclude whether the Holocaust happened or not raises serious moral questions. This was after reports appeared that some of the students were given high marks for concluding that there was no such Nazi atrocity (Yarbrough). Although the district issued an apology, sent the teachers to sensitivity training, and had the students visit the Museum of Tolerance as a way of handling the situation, …show more content…
After all, the teachers offered a profuse apology and took measures to ensure that they correct the notion created by the students’ mind by having them visit the Tolerance Museum. To this group opposing the sacking decision, the measures taken to address the issue are already enough and should be enough reason to pardon the teachers involved. While this is a valid point, it has one major problem. As Karin Klein notes in another article, when the San Bernardino Sun first reported the issue, the district’s initial reaction was to defend the assignment. According to the district officials, the move was meant to help “Students to engage in developing critical thinking skills” (Klein). Although these officials later took a different stand, their initial position is a clear indication that they found nothing wrong on how the assignment proceeded. Considering the critical role that the teacher plays in the education system, it is only fair that the concerned authorities step in to ensure that the teachers looking after children are highly trained and adhere to the professional code of ethics. Allowing teachers who have already had questionable character to continue teaching the same children as though nothing happened will pose serious questions on the quality of the education system in
“Why is the killing of 1 million a lesser crime then the killing of one
Although Jews were the primary victims of the Holocaust, many other groups were targeted based on racial or political grounds. Other groups that were attacked by the Nazis included LGBTQ individuals, the physically and mentally disabled, Roma(gypsies), Poles, Slavic Peoples, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and members of political opposition groups. These Non-Jewish victims were not considered as victims of the Holocaust. So, why did Adolf Hitler kill 11 million people? First, we need to inspect Hitler’s crazy ideas. Adolf Hitler was the Chancellor of Germany during the Holocaust. He came to power in 1933, when Germany was experiencing financial trouble. Hitler promised the Germans that he would bring them great wealth and he stated that he would make
The Holocaust started in the 1933, when the Nazis and Adolf Hitler took power in Germany. The Holocaust from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned) cause chaos and tragedy for Jewish people. At this time Germany was a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000 people. Nazis thought that they were the most inferior race and no other race was better than the Aryan race. This cause a lot of discrimination and hate against other people based on their beliefs and looks. The Nazis provoked the outbreak of World War II, when they invaded Poland. The Holocaust lasted 12 years and it end it on May of 1945.
I am and SS officer. I was stationed at Auschwitz. More Jews were coming in every day. There were eighty to a cattle cart. There were so many families that had to go separate ways from one another. I had killed mothers and the babies and weakest of the men that couldn’t work. It was horrible, I do say. If I could say no I would never do it again. I loved my country and Hitler at the time, so I was willing to do whatever it took to get noticed. I was then stationed at a woman’s concentration camp. They all had gotten shaved, had no gold teeth, and had had tattoos on their arms. It was their identification code. They were so skinny it was just skin stuck to the bones. They looked like corpses, but alive. I wonder how many died soon after.
There were about 500,000 living survivors of the Holocaust in 2014. It is vital for students to be taught about the Holocaust in school. The article, "combating" shows that the students need to be aware that the event did in fact happen. The article "Genocide" shows students what happens when hate against one group or culture becomes too much. Elie Wiesel's Night shows students an eyewitness account of how much violence, brutality, and abuse to the prisoners had to go through in the Holocaust. Though some people are against the subject of the Holocaust because it is too graphic or mature for the students, it is important that students learn from a trusted adult instead of letting other students try to teach it to themselves. The students should learn about the subject of the Holocaust in school because it teaches the importance of equality, about the events occurrence, and teaching about the dangers of discrimination and abuse.
The Holocaust was the murder and persecution of approximately 6 million Jews and many others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis came to power in Germany in January of 1933. The Nazis thought that the “inferior” Jews were a threat to the “racially superior” German racial community. The death camps were operated from 1941 to 1945, and many people lost their lives or were forced to work in concentration camps during these years. The story leading up to the Holocaust, how the terrible event affected people’s lives, and how it came to and end are all topics that make this historic event worth learning about.
Antisemitism, the hatred for the Jewish people, has been called the longest hatred in history. This history is deep rooted and has existed for thousands of years, taking different forms throughout its existence, and intensifying up until and through the Holocaust, to then diminish to an extent but still be prevalent in most societies. Antisemitism exists in different forms, religious, ethnic, and political. The presence of Christianity as the predominant religion in Europe can be noted as a driving factor in religious and ethnic antisemitism, as can the Holocaust. Whereas instances such as the Islamic view on Judaism can be
When one looks through the history of the last century, many great atrocities can come to mind. However, the one that is the most common is that of the Holocaust during World War II. People often wonder how something like this could have been allowed to happen. These same people wonder this without realizing that something similar has happened, right within their own shores. Not only this, but they do not realize how previously close we could become to having this happen again.
First, forced to leave your home and everything they worked for to move into a
Who survived the holocaust? What are their lives like today? What has been the government's response towards those who survived after World War II? Have the survivors kept their faith? How has the survivors next generation been affected? The survivors of the holocaust were deeply effected by the trauma they encountered. This unforgettable experience influenced their lives, those around them, and even their descendants.
The Holocaust of 1933-1945, was the systematic killing of millions of European Jews by the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazis) (Webster, 430). This project showed the treacherous treatment towards all Jews of that era. Though many fought against this horrific genocide, the officials had already determined in their minds to exterminate the Jews. Thus, the Holocaust was a malicious movement that broke up many homes, brought immense despair, and congregated great discrimination. The Holocaust was an act of Hell on earth.
Six million. This is a large number by anyone's account, whether it be dollars, days, or human lives. How could one measure the significance of six million lives, it would be impossible to. "The intentional annihilation of six million people has affected the world in ways that we will never know, maybe the person who could have discovered the cure for Cancer or AIDS died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz." (Remembrance, 1) Six million people is fully one fifth of one per-cent of the world's population.
Cold strikes were hitting his body after I threw him in the ice cold bath. We watched him from the window in the “observatory room”. The other officers were laughing as if they knew what was going to happen, but I knew in reality none of us knew and that’s what scared me the most. His body started off calm as in nothing could faze him at this point but I could see the fear in his eyes. The gut ranching fear was in all their eyes. He started to scream loader and loader. His hands turned blue his vein were trembling, every movement he did got slower and slower. I thought the next time he moved his arm it would just snap off like a wooden doll. That’s what we thought of them anyway they were just dolls that we experimented on in the medical side of Auschwitz.
”We are the children of the holocaust. We are both Germans and Jews. We are the children of the victims. We are the children of the oppressors. We started out on opposite sides but the memory of the holocaust will join us forever. We shall never let the victims be forgotten, for if we do, we will forget that the perpetrator can be in all of us.” This poem expresses quite well the sensation that most individuals feel when they hear the word “Holocaust.” Although they may not have been there, or known someone who was, they may still feel an underlying sadness or anger due to the events that took place during World War II. I myself am neither a Jew nor have German decent, and I too become emotional at just the thought of
We’ve all heard the saying, everything is fair in “love and war”. But do the outcomes of all war, have a fair ending. The way innocent people were treated, who had no partake whatsoever, were dragged into this mess. Hitler treated the Jews like they were some sort of animal and not human beings. Who gave Hitler the right to determine which religion is the greater, and what difference do the Jews have, they’re also humans like us. War is not fair because it changes and impact a lot of things, it harms/kills innocent people, endangers our environment, and war is immoral.