“For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy,” said Simon Wiesenthal. “After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together – many of them only because they helped Jews.” Mr. Wiesenthal was just one of the survivors from the brutal Holocaust who will forever remember the worst time of his life. How he was torn away from his family and was used as a slave for the Nazis. Yet he was still able to have sympathy and think about others. The Holocaust had a significant impact on America by giving lessons about genocides and preventing other genocides, how they punished war criminals after the …show more content…
Jew hating Nazis led by the discriminator against Jews, Adolf Hitler, were responsible for the Holocaust and the many deaths and torture within it. The holocaust started slowly. Centuries of anti-Jewism led to racial hostility of Jews, which led to elimination of Jews within Christian land. Hitler started to gain power in 1933 though. In March of that same year, he had full power in Germany. The main places the Holocaust took place were in Germany and in Eastern Europe. Most of the victims of the Holocaust were gathered from across Europe, but a lot of the killing happened in Eastern Europe when it was taken over by the Germans. Since 1945, the Holocaust has been talked about all around the world. Hitler's ruthless army wanted to kill Jews, or anyone for that matter, who didn't make Germany the way he wanted. He would make them work until they would starve to death or just until he could get rid of them all together by murder. Six million Jews, as well as Gypsies, homosexuals and anyone who disobeyed their rules, died. Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community in his