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Why Did Genocide Affected By The Holocaust

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During World War II, the world faced one of the most devastating genocides. This genocide is known as the Holocaust. A systematic mass murder of six million Jews and five million non-Jews. This includes gypsies, homosexuals, Polish, Russians, Jehovah Witnesses, politicians, and the mental or physically disabled. This totals out to eleven million people murdered over something preventable like hate and racism. The world learned from this that these actions can lead to terrible things. It’s our job to remember the past and learn from the mistakes made.
Hitler and the Nazi party came into power during January 1933 in Germany. They believed that Germans were the superior race. This meant that they thought Germans was basically better than everyone …show more content…

But, it’s not until you put that number into perspective, you realize what it actually means and how large it really is. You realize that it represents eleven million people with families, lives, and dreams. Someone within this number, was a newlywed, or a mother of a newborn, or a star athlete. All of these things taken away, or melted away, because of a preventable thing, racism. For my project, I have decided to represent this. I chose crayons to represent each group affected by the holocaust. I based off my color off of the small triangles assigned to each group in the concentration camps. Yellow represents the Jewish, black represents gypsies and the disabled, red represents the polish, russians, and the politicians, purple represents the Jehovah Witnesses and pink represents homosexuals. I melted the crayons to show all the dreams taken away. The Holocaust could have been preventable. All of these people would have lived. The newlywed would have lived a long happy life with their wife or husband. The mother would have experienced her newborn child growing up. The star athlete would continued to grow in his or her career. But, these dreams melted away for horrible causes of racism and

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