7822cw+Holocaust+Essay

**Do you know what the Holocaust is? Well, it was a very sad and depressing time in our history. It was when different people where getting treated as fairly as everyone else. Grownups and teachers always tell you it's good to be different and unique, but Adolf Hitler didn't agree with this concept and told people that you //should// be the same. He thought that to be perfect everyone had to look the same. A perfect world is what he was after. But the thing is, no one is perfect. I guess Adolf Hitler didn't get the memo. A lot of people are wondering when kids should start learning about this ‍‍gruesome ‍‍ topic. In order to help them gain maturity, avoid prejudice, and prevent future tragedies, sixth graders should learn about the Holocaust.**
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**One main reason sixth graders should learn about the Holocaust is their maturity. Sixth graders are able to handle this knowledge and it is also a big part of history that you cannot ignore. If they don't learn about it now, they won't be able to make decisions in the future! They need to know that life wasn't fair for the Jews and everyone else who practiced a different religion, or was different. No one stood up for the Jews because they couldn't, or else they would be killed or taken away to the concentration camps. If you think your life isn't fair now, try having to live in a world where you would be killed just because your special. Kids need to know how to decide right from wrong and how to handle different situations. The Holocaust is worth learning about.**

**Another reason is to avoid prejudice. Bullying is on the increase and not enough people are speaking up for the victims. You would want someone to stick up you, right? Then you do the same for them. There is a lot of bullying going on in our school and despite all the warnings to stop it, kids go on acting like it never happens. In our school, we recently learned about a program called Rachel's Challenge. The challenge was to start a chain reaction of kindness. Now, they didn't have this kind of curriculum in the 1940's, but the at least some of the Nazis had to know that they weren't doing the right thing. There's this thing called pre-judging. That means that you judge a person on how they appear or look, which is exactly what Adolf Hitler and his followers did. Just because something is popular, doesn't mean it's right. I guess people didn't know this in the 1940's.**

**The most important reason is so that this horrific tragedy doesn't happen again. It was one of the most embarrassing times in our history, and it shouldn't be repeated. Even today, some people still deny that the Holocaust didn't happen! They probably don't want to believe that something so terrible could have happened to their ancestors. If this does ever happen again, there might be follow up wars about whether this should have happened or not. There were six million Jews killed in the Holocaust and eleven million were murdered in the concentration camps. You can't change history, you can only learn about it. "Inside we are all the same," Maud Dahme. Adolf Hitler had the idea of a perfect world, and he would do anything to get it. I think that the Holocaust was a shameful, disgraceful, and dishonorable time in human history and we should all know not to ever repeat it.**

**‍‍‍‍Even though some people think that sixth graders shouldn't learn about the Holocaust, I think we should! Everyone says that the Holocaust will never be repeated in this lifetime, but it already has been. Excluding someone from your circle of friends just because they are different is just like what Adolf Hitler did, but he did it to a wider range of people. Do you really want to make someone feel bad about themselves just because they don't look or talk the way you do?** ** It's a disturbing feeling knowing that a Holocaust happens every day. Kids our age, and younger, were being killed in the Holocaust, so why can't kids our age know about it? ‍‍ **** Also, other adults think sixth graders should learn about the Holocaust too! When I asked my mom about the Holocaust she said, "It was the ultimate display of bullying and we need to learn how to prevent it from happening again." I think that sixth graders should learn about the Holocaust so that history won't repeat itself! ‍‍ **