How is the Holocaust Relevant Today?

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Name:
kathy pirrello

May 22, 2006 01:23 PM

Location:
Erie, PA

Message:
The impact that Elie Wiesel's NIGHT made on me over 10 years ago is renewed each term of the school year as I teach it to new Holocoust Studies students, who have a desire to know the facts about the Shoah. As I guide them into Elie's journey of "night," I never forget to relay to them what seems to be an oxymoron: "although it is not a hard book to read, it will become the hardest book you have ever read." At its conclusion, students are in agreement with this statment. At times they find they must put the book down and come back to it when they can take more. They have been touched deeply as I was almost a decade ago and relate that they will never forget the story. To remember is what is asked and even required of our present generation, and I am sure it is what Elie Wieisel finds most comfort in at this point in his life. Like myself, the students are changed forever.

Name:
Liz Heller

May 22, 2006 02:44 AM

Location:
Ohio

Message:
I remember reading Night for my World History Class in the 10th grade. One of my classmates had started reading it before me and told me that I really needed to read it. I started in the morning and couldn't put it down. I almost had it taken away several times because other teachers caught me reading it! I finished it by 4 PM, but barely. To this day, it is the only book that made me cry, not just cry but sob. I had to stop reading for 10 minutes because I couldn't see the pages through the tears in my eyes. Its a book that tears your heart out and makes you realize how evil people can really be. I feel like it took me out of the sheltered life I had led up until that point and made me face the real world. To this day 12 years later, I will still tell people that it is the best book I ever read, but not for the typical just-read-to-enjoy reason. It is the one book that moved me so much that I felt I had to share it with others (my mother was the first person I loaned the book to) so they could understand what I went through when I read it. To anyone who says that the Holocaust never happened and that genocide still doesn't occur in the world, they need to read Night before it is too late for all of us.

Name:
Ruth Gonzalez

May 20, 2006 08:28 PM

Message:
When the Holocaust ended in 1945, the world said "Never again" to let genocide happen. Sixty years and six genocides later, it's no surprise that genocide is still at large. I can't say that the world has learned it's lessons of their ignorance to genocide,even if the world realises their mistake's of their responce to the Holocaust. With the current genocide happening in the Darfur region in Sudan, we must as a nation rise above self-interest and reach out to give a helping hand to those people who are suffering as I write. For the sake of humanity, let's take action!!!!!!!

Name:
Elizabeth Irby

May 19, 2006 09:09 AM

Message:
I wanted to say that the holocaust one of the most horrible acts that the world has ever seen, heard, or witnessed, is a hard trestimony on how poeple only judge what they see on the outside instead of the inside. It is relevant today because of the genocide in Sudan, Africa, kids running 5 miles to go to a safe place to lay thier heads, and the past genocide in Rwanda because of one group of color was agaist another color of the people, demonstrates how terrible the world can be. I believe that people who've witness the holocaust or any other genocide can come and share their stories to inspire others that we don't have to kill each other it's just not right! we have to make a stand to bond with our borthers and sisters around the world and that to come together to build bridges over troubled waters, to make the world a better place for this generation and the generation to come.