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Essay / Never Strike Again - 804
“In the shadow of the Holocaust…the United Nations approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ). In Bonsia, after a genocide, there was the creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to provide justice by prosecuting the perpetrators of atrocities (USHMM). After the Holocaust, the United Nations came together and declared, “Never again.” It gave many, including survivors, hope that it would contribute to a better world. The truth is that other genocides took place after the Holocaust: in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burma, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sudan and South Sudan, as well as Syria. . The following events proved how “Never Again” failed to remind humans to stand together rather than stand together. “The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazis. regime and its collaborators. “Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire”” (USHMM). During the rise of Nazi power in 1933, the Germans found themselves superior, the perfect race. Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leader, only wanted to have the perfect race, the Aryans. Jews were considered "'inferior' [and] posed a foreign threat to the so-called German racial community" (USHMM). Because of the magnitude of the threat, Hitler, the Nazi Party, and German citizens believed that the best way to get rid of the Jews, of Germany, and, on a much larger scale, of Europe, was to exterminate them. People were taken to ghettos and then eventually sent to concentration camps. There, Nazi soldiers divided the people, if they were able to assassinate Tutsi and moderate Hutu leaders, and armed and trained youth like militias who were responsible. for some small-scale massacres. The killings were reduced to machetes and machine guns. Works Cited by Bryan Alexander@BryAlexandrUSA, TODAY. “Spielberg brings the horrors of the Holocaust into the classroom.” USA Today nd: MAS Ultra - School Edition. Internet. December 16, 2013. “Every time we hear “Never Again.” But have we learned? » Vital Discourses of the Day 79.3 (2013): 077. MAS Ultra - School edition. Internet. December 16, 2013 Liebman, Stuart. “The Neverending Story: An Unfinished Film by Yael Hersonski.” Cineaste 36.3 (2011): 15. MAS Ultra - School edition. Internet. December 16, 2013. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2013. December 16, 2013. Zahava, Scherz. “A sister I never knew delivers an everlasting message about the Holocaust.” USA Today nd: MAS Ultra - School Edition. Internet. December 16. 2013.