The Holocaust was a terrible tragedy that happened during World War .

t began when
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party took power in Germany. He believed that Jews and many
other races were inferior, and that Pure blooded Germans with blond hair and blue
eyes where the dominant race. He also believed that the handicapped and disabled
were useless. On September 15, 1935, two laws known as the Nuremberg Laws were
passed. The first law declared that only individuals of "German blood" could be citizens
of the German state. This law deprived German Jews of their citizenship. The second
law forbade marriage and relationships between Jews and Aryans, taking away all
Jews civil rights and excluding them socially. The Nazis violent intentions were revealed
on Krystalnacht, the night of broke glass. During that night, the Nazi's murdered more
than 90 Jews, beat hundreds more, destroyed more than 180 synagogues, and looted
thousands of shops and businesses owned by Jews. n additions, over 30,000 Jews
were arrested and sent off to concentration camps, which had been built by Hitler
beforehand. After Krystalnacht, most Jews were forced to move to Ghettos. The ghettos
were closed communities of Jews, surrounded by guards and barbed wire. After that,
the Nazis began to send all the Jews to extermination camps, camps created for the
efficient killing of thousands of nnocent people. Over 8000 Jews were killed a day.
Then, in April 30, 1995, Hitler committed suicide. Germany surrendered to the allied
powers, marking the end of World War .
t is very important to know and understand the holocaust. We must do this
so that something like the Holocaust never happens again. Children, like the students
at Saint Andrews school, are going to be the future political leaders of this world.
That is why, if it is communicated to them, they can have power to stop things like the
Holocaust from happening in the future. n addition to this, there are but a handful of
survivors from the horrors of the camps, and they don't have many more years to live. f
they die, the story of the Holocaust cannot die with them, or time will pass and the world
will forget. f the story of the horrors of that era are passed on to this generation,then we
can tell the next generations of leaders to remember what happened so that something
so horrifying and inhumane never happens again.
During the Holocaust, the Nazi party and Hitler had done such inhuman things,
there wasn't a word to describe them. So the word Genocide was created. Genocide
means Any act committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnical, racial or religious group. The Nazis committed genocide against the Jews,
killing over six million. The holocaust message Never again is crucial. This is because
it snds us the message that we must work hard to stop genocide all over the world.
Unfortunately, genocide still continues throughout the world, even after the Holocaust.
The very countries that, after WW, signed against Genocide, now have that conflict
within them. For example, targeted civilian groups suffered brutal atrocities throughout
the conflicts in the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, it was
the single worst atrocity to occur in Europe since the Holocaust. All in all, Genocide is a
terrible thing in the world that must be ended if there is to b a better future.