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Blog Post #5- Sander

After reading and watching films about the Holocaust, I have learned a lot about genocide
and its terrors especially during the Holocaust. After visiting to the Holocaust Museum, I now
understand what terrible things humans went through. When I was reading about all of
this I started to lose hope in humanity in some ways. It is unthinkable how a human could
categorize a group of fellow humans, and say that they are nothing and then almost
systematically attempt to annihilate their entire population. I thought that after witnessing all
the terrors of the Holocaust that a generation of people could not come back in a return to life
in a normal way. I now understand that this event, taught everyone for years to come to not
let this happen again. I now understand that humans are greedy and in the case of the
Holocaust, the Nazis wanted to believe they were the master race and anyone else should not
exist, and that they are superior people. We can bear witness by respecting and listening to
survivor's stories and not letting something similar such as the Holocaust happen in humanity
again. If it does, we people as a world should come together to help fight back against the
oppressors. For example, larger, more influential counties such as the United States could step
and give a helping hand.
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