Holocaust Compare And Contrast Essay

The Holocaust was one of the biggest genocides that killed nearly 11 million innocent people. Even after the effects of the Holocaust people thought that there will never be another genocide again, but there are still many around the world today. Such as the genocide in Cambodia, that cost the lives of nearly 2 million people. Khmer Rouge, just like Hitler, orchestrated this mass murder of people. Both leaders had a vision in their minds to make their nation only a certain race of people. In Germany, they only wanted Aryan people, while in Cambodia, they only want Agrarian people. Both these genocides used fear, to make it possible. For example, in both countries if you questioned the government or helped people hide, you would be killed. Both Cambodia and Germany had a vision in their mind to make their nation a utopia, with perfect citizens, but what they didn’t realize was that they were doing the opposite. Learning about both genocides teaches many people that it’s okay to be different and we shouldn’t punish people because of it. What both of these nations didn’t see by doing this is that they lost

He taught me so much and I knew he would help me enter eternity. He was kind of awkward and a poor Jew who lived in Sighet. He was deported before the rest of the Sighet Jews but he escaped to tell us Jews what the Nazis were going to do to us. He explained how he crossed the Hungarian border into the Polish border where he was taken by Gestapo's. Moshie and the rest of the Jews were ordered to dig trenches. These trenches were used to put the dead prisoners in after they were shot. Even infants would be thrown into the air and used as targets to be shot with machine guns. I always believed that it was a miracle that he survived since he was wounded in the leg. We all thought Moshe was crazy, but we didn’t know that his story foreshadowed our fate (Wiesel