Why are people allways going on about the Jews in the Holocaust?

Question

is it because they allways play on it ? or arn`t the hundreds of thousands of people rounded up and killed the same way by the Nazis (non Jewish ) worth bothering about?

and i find it very offencive that that apart my grandmother (who was saved by some Germanswhen she was a baby )but all her familly where killed along with hundreds of thousands of others and treated exactly the same as Jews should be brushed aside like they were dirt this is why i`m asking

you see exactly my point they almost wiped the Roma population of the face of the Earth theres not that many now how many do you think they killed a handfull

Answer 1

In part it because both the number and the percentage of the Jewish population who were killed was greater than for any other major group. For another, the Jews have made it their business to "never forget". If other groups had made that same commitment to their lost members, we might see more of the diversity of the people who were rounded up, tortured and killed. Unfortunately, many of the dead have no one to speak for them. There are many Jews who spent years in the camps but are still alive and many others who lost their entire families who are able to speak to new generations. Most of those who were mentally ill, retarded or physically handicapped did not survive and had little family willing to even acknowledge them, let alone dedicate decades of life to their memory.

The number of Jews was much larger but I believe that every life is important. Every person who was killed was valuable in his or her own way, not merely as part of a group.

My father is Jewish and he always taught us about the evil of the Holocaust but made sure to remember the gentiles who died as well.

Answer 2

6 million, attempted extermination, no safe port offered by any other country

100k's, barely a dent in any other population

This is not terribly hard to understand is it? I'm not Jewish. I just happen to be familiar with history. Try it sometime. Education, it's a wonderful thing.

PS - What Hitler did while so many closed their eyes remains one of the most heinous acts of man. No one need be Jewish to be moved by the sickness of it and the tacit duplicity inherent in the act. That's what it is to be the outsider, and that's what prejudice does, it kills without shame or reason. This is a lesson everyone should learn, so stop getting hung up on the labels and learn something about what society in the hands of extremists becomes.

Btw, I'm gay and well aware that those ovens were used to exterminate anyone the Nazi's thought was gay. I'm highly educated, and well aware that the intellectuals were tossed into those camps as well, as were Polish and other Eastern Europeans as well. These are tragedies but they are overshadowed by the significance of those ovens' and camps' main purpose. Like I said, education, it's a wonderful thing. Try it.

EDIT - and yes, if there were another people nearly wiped off the face of the earth, then lol, I perhaps need more education. Cite some source please. I'm more than happy to learn more.

Answer 3

Sorry to hear that your grandma's family was destroyed. You are very fortunate to have had a family member survive the Holocaust. Many of the Jews that did survive lost their entire family also.
Why are you getting angry about something which they could not control?

What occurred to the Jews is their history. When they are talking about what has happened it makes certain that the generations that did not endure the Holocaust understand and not forget what has occurred to their family and people.

When we forget from where we have come and what we have endured we become complacent and put ourselves in position for the same things to happen again. What happened during that time in history was horrific and needs never to be forgotten.

Rather then you becoming pissed at the loss of your people, learn the history of your people and the role they played during this period in history. Maybe once you learn and gain some understanding, you won't feel so put off about the Jews speaking about their history.

Answer 4

Between 6 to 9 million Jews It goes up to 11 and 12 million if you include "inferior" races like Gypsy and Catholics. It is estimated that the death rate could be upward of 26 million people. Yiddish as a language is considered extinct. The displacement of so many Jews led to the migration to Palestine and the formation of Israel.

But most importantly. No mater who you are, or where you come from, or what religious belief, color of your skin, or curl of your hair: NEVER FORGET AND NEVER AGAIN!
Try not to get caught up in the anger about the Roma population being forgotten, they have not. try to hold on to the belief that you won't let it happen again

Answer 5

You're ignorant, did you know that?

Jews don't "always play on it". Most Jews don't resent the German people for it. The Jewish people just feel that this was a significantly tragic event which should never be forgotten, and rightfully so.

It's not that we chose not to talk about the other groups persecuted by Nazi Germany, but that we always associate the Holocaust with Jews.

Answer 6

The Nazis killed six million Jews during those years. What are they supposed to do? Forget about it?

Answer 7

Of course gypsies, Jehovah's Wittiness's, Slavs, Homosexuals, The retarded, crippled and insane met the same fate as the Jews, but the number were not as great.

Answer 8

If people tried to exterminate my people, I'd never forget either.

The targeting of one group for destruction has a name.

It's called genocide.

In WWII it was the Jews that were mainly targeted.

We need to remember the past to try to save our future.

Answer 9

think about this, it only happened 60 years ago and already people like you are asking this question. If Jews don't keep bringing it up, people WILL forget.How iabout instead of phrasing your question such that it brings jews down, how about asking it in a way that raises up other victims.

Answer 10

What a mean spirited question. Its talked about because we don't want a repeat.