Denying that the Holocaust

861 Words2 Pages

How can history be denied? History is not always pretty, or nice but nothing will change it. The Holocaust was one of the most devastating things to ever happen, but it DID happen. The denial of this piece of history should be illegal. One cannot deny this event and the vital impact that it had on the world. Denying that the Holocaust happened should be illegal because it affected millions of people, there are facts to back it up, and learning about the Holocaust will help prevent it from happening again.

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state- sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators” (1). Six million people were killed because they were not thought of as worthy to be alive. That does not include the number of people who survived this tragic event. It is hard to consider the survivors of this time period as lucky because, a victim of a concentration camp was treated in such a way that death would seem like a relief. A very well-known thirteen year old victim of the Holocaust, Anne Frank, had kept a diary while she was alive so one day people could read it and see the tragedy from her side. Anne documented the events in her life during the time she and her family hid out, graphically expressing the terror, fear and the light of hope. Anne said:

We’ve been missing out on so much here, so very much, and for such a long time. I miss it just as much as you do. I’m not talking about external things, since we’re well provided for in that sense; I mean the internal things. Like you, I long for freedom and fresh air, but I think we’ve been amply compensated for their loss. On the inside I mean....

... middle of paper ...

...s surprised because your questions have been asked since the day we became people” (Wells 139). It seems as if Jews were not even considered real people until millions of them were murdered. The Holocaust was a tragic, devastating, and unforgettable event. One should never deny what they have never personally been through.

Works Cited

Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc, 1995. Print.

“Introduction to the Holocaust”. Holocaust Encyclopedia. 10 June 2013. Web. 4 Dec. 2013.

Orenstein, Henry. I Shall Live: Surviving Against All Odds. 1939-1945. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc., 1989. Print.

Toland, John. Adolf Hitler. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. Print.

Wells, Leon, W. Shattered Faith: A Holocaust Legacy. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. 1995. Print.

Open Document