Madeline's Journal

"My Holocaust Feelings"

I would like to say that there isn’t anything worse than killing and torturing people and that whoever does something as horrible as this is less than human. These murderers have committed awful and innumerable sins, all because of differences in religion. I feel that anybody that has done this is mentally ill, has problems and no compassion toward other people. I personally do not discriminate against any religion and I have many friends of different religions so this is why I do not understand how somebody could terminate the Jewish people for a simple religion. I also do not discriminate against people based on their ethnicity. I basically determine if people are good or bad on an individual basis. I feel sympathy and forgiveness for the Germans that were forced to do inhuman actions because their life depended on it. I idolize with all my heart the Resistance; all the people who risked there lives for saving others. I do not comprehend what this world has become, and it just seems to deteriorate by the day. Too many people think violence is the solution to our problems. I wish I could help in some way to stop what is going on in the world. There should be a special day that we show our sorrow and remember everybody that was killed in the Holocaust despite what religion we are. Any person who survived the Holocaust must have a hard time sleeping at night with all those frightful and appalling memories that are stuck in their heads which they can’t erase. We are given the gift of life to enjoy every moment of it, but the Nazis just took it away and tortured them and before they knew it, there beautiful gift of life was gone. We should pray for everybody that was affected and be grateful for our precious lives.