Editorial – Holocaust

By Jennifer Yim

Adolf Hitler was a man of hate. Hitler used his influence and power to twist the world into what he thought it should be like. It didn’t matter what the cost of human lives was or the consequences. Hitler brainwashed, forced, or killed anybody and everybody that got in his way to the elimination of the entire Jewish race. By the time World War 2 ended, 10 million Jews were killed.

The Holocaust was separated into 5 stages. Hitler was no doubt an evil man, but he was also very smart, cunning and manipulative. His first step was to identify all the Jews by forcing them to wear the Star of David on their arm and changing their names to either Sarah of Israel. Then, the Jews had no rights, they were no longer considered to be citizens of the country. All Jews were either fired from his job or had his store taken away from him. At this point not that many Jews resisted thinking that it was the worst that the Nazis would do. Isolation came and Jewish people were rounded up were they were sent to the Ghettos and lived on streets. After that, Hitler carted most of them to concentration camps were if you were strong and useful, they would work you to death and if you were not, you were killed immediately. Lots of elderly people and children were killed because they were of no use. Then came the Final Solution, the Nazis wanted to wipe out the entire Jewish race. Jews were put into gas chambers by the thousands when shooting them became too expensive. Hitler had designed the 5 stages specifically to break the Jewish’s people will and hope.

I think that Adolf Hitler was a man of cruelty and that he is insane. His hatred for Jews might have come from when he was little, his mother died of cancer and her doctor was a Jew and Hitler blamed him for not giving her the right treatments. Hitler blamed the Jews for everything to the loss of World War 1 and the great depression. The Holocaust was very inhumane and I think that everyone who was involved in it and even the people who knew about it and didn’t stand up or speak up was at fault. But I sympathize with the people who didn’t speak up or does anything because they were scared that if they were found helping the Jews in anyway, they might get send to concentration camps too. I greatly admire those who risked their lives to do the right and humane thing to help the Jews in secret.

Never Forget

Screaming, begging, crying,

“Pack more bodies in!”

Hitler’s beloved Holocaust,

Was an act of pure sin.

Ripped by the hand of Hatred,

From home and family.

Ordinary people like me and you,

Died without a cemetery.

“Jews are Vermin!”

“Jews are Monsters!”

Jews were slaves,

While Nazis were masters.

“It didn’t happen…”

Murders may be forgotten.

Dead empty shells of a soul long gone,

Buried without a coffin.

Lessons were learned and

Morals were taught.

The world could not forget,

How bravely the Jews still fought.

History speaks truth and compassion,

Never forget the Holocaust.

For the lives of 6 million Jews

Were too high of a cost.