Universal Lessons of the Holocaust

"There are no words", as Elie Wiesel said, to use to speak upon the Holocaust. There is no way to describe it besides saying destruction. Sure we have been taught about it since we were in grade school, but do we truly understand. We read the words that come from the people who lived it and we hear their words, but what are we doing with their testimonies. We are simply shelving them into our thoughts, acknowledging what took place and leaving it at that. Sure a few of us will venture over to Europe to see these terrors first hand, feeling as if we have done something significant, but what have we truly done. Some of us (no one at all in particular this is just an analogy) will get right back on our plane for our flight at home and watch the arabic person getting on the flight, the whole time. I think that this is the point Elie was grasping at, we will never change until we become the change we want to see. We can not look to the outside world for change within ourselves.



We may acknowledge and feel pity for those who were dealt this ordeal, but at the end of the day, this horrendous assault on a nationality of people, will be an after thought for us. We will go home to our cushioned lives, our laptops, and our families and put these thoughts out of our mind. These thoughts how ever should be the first things in our minds when we go home at night. We should walk into our houses at night and be greatful for what we have, for the saftey of our lives, and for our freedom. Although, the Holocaust was meant as a way to annihilate a race, it was also a lesson in human indignation.



Forgetting, for the survivors, is not an option; for us however it is easy. I am amazed by how those individuals, who expirenced what they went through had the abiltity to speak. I can't fathom being able to speak upon something such as this from a first hand expirence. I must agree with Elie, "where is the rage." I think that the rage is in the writting. The writting may not be written with the intention of rage, but the rage is present. This is their way of screaming out without breaking their composure.



History is madness. Humans hurt one another more than we heal. We wil never understand. We can't it is not a possible action. All we can do is better...