Mimi S. Blog Post 5

    When beginning reading Night it was immediately obvious how devastating the holocaust was. "The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion." Fear and delusion created the holocaust with one look at the possible future. People took that fear and focused it on others creating a massacre that will forever be known as the holocaust. The fact that fear and delusion could create such a horrific event. Today fear seems to keep people from doing anything they would otherwise regret and yet through mass infection of fear and delusion in large doses murderers were made from otherwise innocent people. When we watched Life is Beautiful  we saw the doctor (representing once friends) kill the father (representing any Jew) with no remorse or even a tremor as he pulled the trigger. Fear and delusion took what once was an idea to an action, no matter who the action was against.
    Throughout the Holocaust unit the common theme of horror, loss, and mortality. While the holocaust is famous for the terror and poverty, going into the details of the event made me question the humanity of the human race today. Although people a whole have evolved since 1945 and we recognize the holocaust as an act of hatred. The Holocaust museum not only memorialized the deaths of many victims, but showed the truth of an important staple of our timeline. One of the most important things I learned from the museum was learning from others mistakes. Other acts of antisemitism or segregation are still among our society. Learning from our mistakes can only take us so far, as a part of our worlds history we must act upon the knowledge we have gathered from the past to make the news hate free. There will always be hatred, but if we could just change way people go among murdering a culture for there beliefs, looks, or mere rumors based on a small percentage of that specific race, or religion. Last but not least, If we remain to hate others the way our ancestors have, or population will be ephemeral and the only people to learn from our mistakes will be six feet underground, swallowing dirt, and decaying.