A WORD FROM THE CREATOR
In elementary school, I was put into an AIG program where I was introduced to a topic far beyond my grasp; the Holocaust. I remember tears coming down my face during a presentation I gave on Adolf Hitler and concentration camps in front of my class; by the end, I was shaking. In middle school, I studied the Holocaust with a greater understanding of the concepts, and that's where my fascination began. I chose to do this website on Auschwitz because it was the most infamous camp in the entire Holocaust time period. It is a prime example of a camp that was used for excruciating labor and murder. It contained the most gas chambers, crematoriums, and prisoners. It is also where most experiments took place during the Holocaust by Dr. Mengele. It was surprising how many people were killed at Auschwitz alone; 1.6 million! I didn't know the gas chambers at Auschwitz were directly linked with the crematoriums. It was interesting that the largest crematoriums could burn up to around 2,500 bodies a day. I cannot fathom how the Germans were able to heartlessly force Jews and other "inferiors" out of their homes and make them suffer such horrendous deaths. Did they not think of the families they were tearing apart? Or the massive amounts of innocent people they were murdering systematically? How did one man convince most of Germany that Jews were a race that needed to be exterminated?...
What bothers me most about the Holocaust is the fact that it could have easily been prevented. If the stock market crash caused by Americans would have not occurred then the drastic effects would not have damaged the rest of the world's economy, and Germans would not have needed Adolf Hitler to become dictator by promising jobs and food. Also, if the reparations and limits on Germany given by the United Nations were not so demanding, then Hitler would have most likely not been brought into power.
My perception of the Holocaust has been altered greatly; I now understand why this actually happened, and how devastating the effects of it were. Unless they are just unsympathetic, anyone who learns about the Holocaust will be touched in some way. The world as a whole needs to put forth an effort to prevent atrocities such as the Holocaust from happening again, but unfortunately, there are still genocides continuing to this day.
Throughout elementary and middle school, I believed that the Holocaust was just a random act of evil done against people that Germans didn't like; but now that I am in high school, I finally understand what genocide truly means. We as Americans strongly believe in having rights,freedom, and the pursuit of happiness. We can surely help stop the genocides going on today, and we can prevent such events from ever happening again once they are stopped. It is unfortunate we did not arrive sooner in World War 2 to help put an end to this act of great evil quicker, but at least it was brought to an end. The millions of people murdered in the Holocaust may be gone, but their memory will never be forgotten.
In elementary school, I was put into an AIG program where I was introduced to a topic far beyond my grasp; the Holocaust. I remember tears coming down my face during a presentation I gave on Adolf Hitler and concentration camps in front of my class; by the end, I was shaking. In middle school, I studied the Holocaust with a greater understanding of the concepts, and that's where my fascination began. I chose to do this website on Auschwitz because it was the most infamous camp in the entire Holocaust time period. It is a prime example of a camp that was used for excruciating labor and murder. It contained the most gas chambers, crematoriums, and prisoners. It is also where most experiments took place during the Holocaust by Dr. Mengele. It was surprising how many people were killed at Auschwitz alone; 1.6 million! I didn't know the gas chambers at Auschwitz were directly linked with the crematoriums. It was interesting that the largest crematoriums could burn up to around 2,500 bodies a day. I cannot fathom how the Germans were able to heartlessly force Jews and other "inferiors" out of their homes and make them suffer such horrendous deaths. Did they not think of the families they were tearing apart? Or the massive amounts of innocent people they were murdering systematically? How did one man convince most of Germany that Jews were a race that needed to be exterminated?...
What bothers me most about the Holocaust is the fact that it could have easily been prevented. If the stock market crash caused by Americans would have not occurred then the drastic effects would not have damaged the rest of the world's economy, and Germans would not have needed Adolf Hitler to become dictator by promising jobs and food. Also, if the reparations and limits on Germany given by the United Nations were not so demanding, then Hitler would have most likely not been brought into power.
My perception of the Holocaust has been altered greatly; I now understand why this actually happened, and how devastating the effects of it were. Unless they are just unsympathetic, anyone who learns about the Holocaust will be touched in some way. The world as a whole needs to put forth an effort to prevent atrocities such as the Holocaust from happening again, but unfortunately, there are still genocides continuing to this day.
Throughout elementary and middle school, I believed that the Holocaust was just a random act of evil done against people that Germans didn't like; but now that I am in high school, I finally understand what genocide truly means. We as Americans strongly believe in having rights,freedom, and the pursuit of happiness. We can surely help stop the genocides going on today, and we can prevent such events from ever happening again once they are stopped. It is unfortunate we did not arrive sooner in World War 2 to help put an end to this act of great evil quicker, but at least it was brought to an end. The millions of people murdered in the Holocaust may be gone, but their memory will never be forgotten.