by Garrison Wester
The holocaust was a horrible event that will never be forgotten. Schools around North Carolina and the USA need to be more engaged on teaching their students what happened in this event. Hitler was under power in Germany and him and his fellow Nazi’s felt that the Jews were the issue to their problems in society. The Jewish society was extremely oppressed, and it is sad to see the amount of people that were brainwashed to think that Jews were the problem.
Schools should be required to teach this sensitive information because students deserve to know how a powerful leader could misguide their people into blaming their economic issues on one specific race. Hitler became the dictator in 1933 and from there is just got worse for the Jewish community. During the first six years of Hitler’s rule, around 304,000 Jews emigrated from Germany to other countries. Life became increasingly hard as life went on and the Jewish community in Germany got their jobs and their properties taken away from them. Jews were forced to live in the Ghettos, and they were put there to be isolated from all the other citizens of Germany. Imagine the Jewish community: they could be living a healthy life but instead they are living a life of misery. All Jews were forced to wear a star on their clothes so everyone would know they were Jews. As time advanced, it just got worse and worse. Why is it that North Carolina is not requiring its schools to learns about such a disturbing topic?
The next thing about the Holocaust really is something that is unbelievably sad, but it is a topic that should be taught with no regrets about teaching it to students. Jews started to be sent to concentration camps and they were sent to the camps not knowing what would happen to them there. Nazis would pick the Jews up from there Ghettos and force them into the back o their trucks and then they were taken off to their camps. The camps were made for the Jews to suffer until death. There were some death camps where they would put many Jews in a chamber at a time and put gas in it so they couldn’t breathe. They would die from this but no one around Germany had a clue what was going on. Auschwitz was the deadliest concentration camp and there was about one million Jews who were killed there. In total there was about six million Jews who were killed and about five million people who the Nazis saw as imperfect to their standards.
As you can see from the given information the Holocaust was a time with very devastating information, but it is information that should be taught to children in North Carolina in todays world. This should be taught to children because they deserve the know the cruelness of the Nazi party and how unfair the Jews were treated during the timespan. The suffering they had to go through should never be forgotten and we can help make that happen by teaching their stories at school in North Carolina.
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