Why Do People Remember The Tragedies Of The Holocaust?

Vanessa Trautmann

Ms. Sehorn 5th Core

7th Grade

11, March 2015

The Holocaust “Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” - George Santayana. A lot of people who try to forget the disaster the Holocaust caused usually remember it the best compared to people who try to actually remember the tragedies of the Holocaust, who then forget what happened. There were so many victims of the Holocaust, people didn't have time to bury their loved ones. Most of the people that were targeted during the Holocaust were Jewish people, Gypsies, mentally ill and disabled people who could not exactly do anything, slavs who were part of big groups, and homosexuals. Nazis were also racially superior and killing people because of their race, culture, and skin color. Over 6 million of those people were

The Nazis did not want people in the Concentration Camps with bad behavior because they could most certainly cause some type of riot. People with a bad attitude were most likely killed in the gas chambers right away to prevent them from hurting other people, starting riots against other parts of the Concentration Camps, and breaking out in fights over nothing. Some people were killed too because of the way they looked. Overweight people killed too because they would just slow down most of the work in the Concentration Camps and Death Camps (“Downing”). Pregnant Jewish women were not as lucky in the Holocaust as you might think they might be. Nazis would not allow pregnant women into the Concentration Camps and Death Camps because if the women were to give birth at the camps, the Nazis would have to kill that Jewish baby because if that child were to group up, it would get married to someone Jewish most likely and possibly reproduce a Jewish child and that would possibly go on for a long time. To prevent that from happening, Nazis just killed the Jewish pregnant women (“random