Reflection 15-The Holocaust

The question of did the Holocaust even exist is the thought that ponders in the minds of many. Like many other major events that has happened to other cultures such as the African American race, I do believe the Holocaust is a tragic event that happened to the Jewish people. These people experienced starvation, lethal injection, and gas chamber killings. It all began from one man’s superiority of power and hate towards a nation of people. There were well over six million Jews that went through a tragic period of total destruction during World War II. That is well over two out of three people killed because of their race or ethnic group and many others such as Jehovah’s Witness and communists were ill-treated for what they simply believed in. Numerous Jewish businesses and properties were put out of business and forced to sell at low dirt prices. I cannot imagine someone working for many of years to build a business all to lose it for a small amount of nothing. Highly trained college professors and people of civil social work were forced to quit their jobs because the Nazi’s felt they were second-rated and mediocre to them, so they had to get rid of them. Other people such as homosexuals were also persecuted and imprisoned. The section where it explains how the Germans took over the Polish people because they considered them of lower class began with the Polish leaders. Then they moved on to kidnapping the innocent children which was well over 50,000 to be adopted by German families which later was sent to concentration camps and later died. What is the saddest and most disturbing of all is when handicapped people were labeled as not being able to function and was terminated because of the burden they bared on the amounts of money it took to care for them. Innocent people died and were driven into starvation. This event does seem unrealistic because some may think of how one man in his own power can destroy a whole nation of people. As I was reading the article I do believe the Holocaust happened because it reminds me of current events such as the earthquake in Haiti. Even before this occurred, how their political leaders killed people all for what reason? It may not be to the full extent of the Jewish people, but is very similar. Many people in Haiti died of starvation and infectious diseases eating throughout their bodies. The Jews throughout time was compensated for their tragedy and loss, but in my personal opinion money cannot make up for the memories of what those people had to go through. No, we do not understand why things happen to us a people, but I do believe we should take these events and grow and learn from them.