Resonating Effects of the Holocaust

The Holocaust

Midterm Paper

Although The Holocaust happened decades ago, the effects of the horrific actions of the time still resonate with people everywhere. That is one of the things that make The Holocaust so historically interesting; although the period is long over, the effects still cause ripples. There are a plethora of news articles, and art exhibits, that are centrally focused on The Holocaust. In fact, historians are consistently finding new information on the subject, it seems almost daily. There never seems to be an end to the information that is still coming and will continue to come out about The Holocaust, and that’s astounding. The New York Times published an article on March 1st, 2013 by Eric Litchblau entitled “The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking”. Upon reading past the very ambiguous title, the article discussing the death total of The Holocaust, and the remarkable discovery historians made.

During an investigation done by the United States’ Holocaust Memorial Museum that started in the year 2000, researchers found that there were 42,500 Nazi controlled camps and ghettos that housed Jews during 1933-1945, which is during Hitler’s reign as Fuhrer of Nazi Germany. The camps spread from German controlled France all the way to Russia. Those numbers, and the locales of the camps, are absolutely unbelievable, and it was an unprecedented find at the time, that shocked every Holocaust historian in the country. Prior to this discovery, the number of German controlled camps and ghettos was unknown. The experience of the camps was documented before, by interviews with survivors, but the sheer amount of camps and ghettos was shocking.

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...died. The discovery of information never stops either; so if there is more information learned, then more information is taught, and then more information about the topic can be discovered by future generations.

The Holocaust is always a big topic in history classes. It affected the world, since World War II and The Holocaust go hand in hand. The Holocaust is arguably the most heavily discussed portion of history; as a student I must have learned about it in five or six history that I have taken in my educational career, and every time I learn about it I learn something new. With the importance of The Holocaust, along with the amazement of how it was done and why, to the sheer shock of the death, destruction and statistics of the brutal time in history, it was always be important. Articles like “The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking” just further its importance.