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Learning About the Holocaust

“For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together – many of them only because they helped Jews.” These words were spoken by Simon Wiesenthal, Holocaust survivor. He meant that it was not only the Jews who were killed; It was also other people who weren't "perfect" in Hitler's eyes.We need to remember not just the Jews but the others who were also exterminated. During the Holocaust, the Nazis took over and eliminated all the people that weren't "perfect". These people included Jews, gypsies, homo-sexuals, and disabled people. There was a total of about 6 million people who were killed.Some people think that sixth graders shouldn't learn about the Holocaust, but I disagree. We should learn about the Holocaust because we want to be treated as mature students, we want to avoid prejudice, and we want to prevent it from happening again.

The first reason why we should learn about the Holocaust is that we are mature enough. This was a part of history so we need to learn about it so we need to realize that this kind of stuff happened. Also sixth graders need to realize that life isn't all puppies and rainbows and that life isn't fair. This is also so that kids learn right from wrong and learn not to make bad decisions. It might also make us grateful for what we have knowing that the people who were not going to the camps were starving because the Germans were taking all the food for the war.

The next reason that we should learn about the Holocaust is to avoid being prejudice. This will help stop bullying and to make bullies realize that it's not nice. Also to prevent things like "Rachel's Challenge" and prevent people from hurting people because they were getting bullied. The last reason is that it will teach kids not to judge because if we do judge something like this might happen again.

The last reason is so it doesn't happen again. This event was a very shameful historical event because we It was also a very hard way of life and at some points people were starving, and out of fire wood. If anything like this were to happen again we would be scared and couldn't believe it was happening again. If we don't teach kids about the Holocaust it will come back to haunt us all.

These are the three reasons that sixth graders should learn about the Holocaust. Since we are mature, avoid being prejudice, and so it doesn't happen again. Some people may have to reconsider whether or not you think that sixth graders are ready to learn about the Holocaust  or they may stay with their same thought. If kids our age were killed during the Holocaust don't you think that we should be able to learn about it?