e dead.”(7) The gas for experimentation on insects,“Zyklon B”, was now used for murdering human beings (8). After that bodies had been taken out and burned. Six million Jews were put to death by the German state led by Adolph Hitler from 1933 to 1945, the Holocaust years.Fewer than four million European Jews survived the Holocaust, but they will never forget the horrors they’ve been through. Leo Eitinger, a psychiatrist observed Holocaust survivors and said that survivors won’t be able to live a normal life. They would forever have difficulties in establishing close relationships. They lost basic trust in people because of their own persecution and anger. Few survivors chose not to have children after the war; they didn’t want to become attached to them, because they feared another separation (9).During the Holocaust, there were people who risked their own lives to save Jews, and stop Hitler. They weren’t only Jewish people, but many of them were non-Jews. One of them was Raoul Wallenberg. On the stations where Jews were put in the trains and taken to the death camps, he gave out schutzpasses. This was a document by which Swedish protection was extended to all Hungarian Jews supposedly planning to immigrate to Sweden. There was no law for this pass, but for a long time Wallenberg made it work (10). If there were more people who wouldn’t be passive and stood up to Hitler, Holocaust might not have happened.Today we still hear about the genocide in different countries. In 1994, 1 million Tutsis were slaughtered by Hutus in Rwanda. Also in 1992, Serbs practiced ethnic cleansing against Moslems in Bosnia. Very often one ethnic group doesn’t like another, but it doesn’t mean that we should kill innocent people because of that. Every person was given a right to live and nobody has right to take that away.The Holocaust changed history – Jewish history and world history. Today we ...
