The Holocaust

The holocaust
The Holocaust was a catastrophic, cataclysmic event in history that took place
over 55 years ago, but why is it still so important to us today? One of the many
reasons it is still widely discussed today, is because of the many rights it
violated for the Jews as human beings. The main goal of the holocaust was for
Nazis to try and kill every Jewish person alive in Europe. Many Nazi leaders
tried their hardest do to this, and went unpunished for their actions. All of
this tradgedy and calamity started when Adolf Hitler came into power.
Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich came to power in 1938, the Jews in Europe
knew they were in trouble. Hitler blamed them for Germany's rapid fall as a
world power and he made sure they were to be punished for their supposedly wrong
doings. Elie Wiesel's novel Night, is about his own
family's struggle to survive the terrifying years of the early
1940's. Wiesel exists in a minority of Jews who lived to share his
unfortunate and di...