Should the Holocaust Be Remembered? Genocide is defined as the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of particular ethnic group or nation. The Holocaust is one of the most infamous genocides to occur in history, when eleven million innocent souls were tortured and murdered by Nazi Germany. The Holocaust should forever be in remembrance because it affected millions of innocent people and it still affects some of them today. By making people aware of this terrible event, we can hope to keep this from ever happening again.
When discussing the Holocaust, the first thing that comes to mind, for most people, are the six million jews that were murdered. What ever happened to the other five million people? There was actually a total of eleven million people who were tortured and put to death by the Nazi regime during World War II. Terese Penak Schwartz informs, “Of the eleven million people killed during the holocaust, six million were Polish citizens… Most of the remaining victims were from other countries including Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Holland, France, and even Germany.” According to Schwartz, the other…show more content… When the death camps were liberated, the remaining survivors returned home, but the memories of their experiences there are never forgotten. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Despite their efforts to ‘move on,’ however, for many this shroud of wellness eventually gave way to a host of emotional and psychological difficulties. Their inability to mourn or to acknowledge their own suffering led them to exhibit a variety of symptoms.” Their experiences left them with trauma that caused them to develop psychological issues. Some of the survivors even went as far as to take their own lives so they wouldn’t have to deal with flashbacks or trauma any
