The Holocaust: The Concentration Camps

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Holocaust is the most terrible human action in the history. It absolutely marks the ending of the previous mentality of human-beings. Therefore, a new round of discovery of evilness of human nature has been established. Best uncovering the truth of Holocaust will help prevent the furthur destuction of humanism, which is the most important mission of the society after World War II. There are many sources of Holocaust trying to best uncover the truth, such as the inhabitant’s experience of the immediate suffering in the camp, fragment memories from the survivors. However, only the analyzations with critical sights of these horrible actions will appeal for just humanitarian attentions to the most extent. Inhabitant’s experience of the immediate suffering in the camp simply describes the cold and brutal scenes. When the question of who should we reach for the truth of Holocaust, the first answer is always the survivors. However, while survivors do provide some evidence of the whole action of Holocaust, to what extent we should trust them and best use their experience is always controversial. Inhabitants are the people who lived at the place where Holocaust took place and witnessed some immediate suffering. They provided the first channel for the whole world to start realizing the horrible actions of anti-humanism in the camp. However the immediate suffering of the inhabitants did not furthur stimulate the just humanitarian attentions in the later period because the message was only helpful at the surface of discovering the truth. Hannah Arendt states in The Concentration Camps, “there are numerous such reports by survivors; only a few have been published, partly because, quite understandably, the world wants to hear no more of th... ... middle of paper ... ...nally and trying to promote common appeals for the just humanitarian attentions. Therefore their analyzations are the only source to best uncover the truth of Holocaust. Works Cited Arendt, Hannah. The Concentration Camps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 47-63. Print. Levi, Primo. The Drowned and The Saved. Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 2013. Print. Zajdlerowa, Zoe. The Dark Side of The Moon. 1st ed. 299. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. Print. Novick, Peter. "The Holocaust in American Life." Houghton Mifflin Company. (1999). Web. 16 Mar. 2014. . "Psychological Pain of Holocaust Still Haunts Survivors." American Phychological Association. American Phychological Association, 20 Sep 2011. Web. 16 Mar 2014.

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