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Blog Post #5 - Naiya

While studying the Holocaust, I learned so much. Before this unit, I only knew the basics. I knew about Hitler and the camps, but that was pretty much it. After learning so much, my thoughts on humanity has completely changed. It’s so hard to think about the fact that this kind of stuff is happening right now. During Elie Weisel’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, one of the things he was focusing on was “never again”. That is what I was thinking too. No one should ever have to go through any of that. The one thing I could take from this unit is that you should never give up for the world. In the memoir Night by Elie Weisel, Elie was starting to give up on living while staying in the concentration camps. The only person who ‘kept him alive’ was his dad. Elie actually told himself that if his dad died when he died too. The way we can bear witness to all of this is to make sure as many people can hear these stories as possible. Whether it is from a survivor themselves or a story passed down a family, people need to know that this is happening and it should never happen again.
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