What have we learnt from the holocaust?

The holocaust shocked the world however we have not completely learned our lesson. There have been several other mass killings which made us wonder, can we ever live in a world where everyone accepts each other?

Some examples of genocides after the holocaust took place in Rwanda, Cambodia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 1944, 800,000 Tutsis and pro-peace Hutus were murdered in Rwanda. From 1975 to 1979, the communist party in Cambodia committed genocide against around 1.7 million Cambodians.  In 1992, Bosnian Muslims were targeted in Bosnia-Herzegovina and at least 7500 men were killed. Hearing about these events made us feel shocked as we thought that people in our world would have learnt their lesson from the holocaust.

Today, people are still murdering and acting extremely cruelly to other people, just because of a different race or religion. This begs the question: have we really learnt our lesson? The holocaust shocked the world but these cruel acts are still happening so we haven’t really learnt our lesson from the holocaust. We have not fully learnt to not kill people, but we have learnt that a mass killing of a group of people could lead to devastation throughout the world. We have learnt that some people have very different views on a perfect world. People are still judging people on their beliefs and influences. We think that although discrimination still happens in our world, it is important to try and stop this. In an ideal world, everyone would be happy and peaceful and we would all accept each other. However this may not ever happen. We need to keep spreading our opinions about stopping discrimination and try to persuade people that it doesn’t matter what your religion, race or skin colour is. On this blog we are trying to educate people about the holocaust in the hope that it will never happen again

The world is getting better at showing respect for those who have been murdered. For example, after the attacks in Paris many people posted 'Pray for Paris' or other messages of respect on social media and huge support was shown for the families of lost ones. We may not be living in a world free from discrimination but our world is getting better at accepting people for who they are.