How has the Holocaust affected our lives?

Question

What effects did such a tragedy have on the futre, for evrybody, all over the world?
How has the Holocaust affected the present, the future?
What lessons have we learned?

Answer 1

It cut short the lives of millions of people. Men, women, and children died in the Nazi's death camps - all that human potential was wasted. We'll never know what we lost - a child who died in the death camp could've otherwise grown up to become a doctor who discovered an important cure - but his or her life was snuffed out by vile and evil men before he or she could reach his or her full potential.

I hope it taught us why we must never again allow such tyranny to rise in the world again.

Answer 2

Most important, these millions of people are dead and we don't know what they would have done in this world if they had been alive and they had got children and grandchildren. It's like the previous answerer wrote, but I mean also for those who wouldn't have made a great invention, it was an incredible loss of human life and these people are missing now. And whole communities were destroyed, in Poland that was 10 % Jewish before the war there are only a few thousand Jews left now. I don't know how to word it well, but I mean so much has been lost.
It is of course something hard to hear about for everyone who has some feelings, and for me something hard to bear. I'm German and it's hard to know my country has such a history and also that my grandparents who lived then looked away like most of Germans and didn't oppose the Nazi regime. But also apart from that it is simply hard to bear that it happened at all and I study it because I can't just ignore it. It is of course hard for those who lost family in the Holocaust, for those who survived concentration camps, for their children... what can I say, again I don't have good words. But I think it has some effect on the thinking of everyone who is somehow "connected" to it, even if not personally, at least on all the Germans and all the Jews, also on the Sinti and Roma who were also victim of genocide by the Nazis, and to some extent I think on everyone in affected countries.
The lessons we should have learned are that we should get immune to antisemitism and all other forms of racism, ethnic and religious hatred and that we prevent other genocides. Unfortunately these lessons have not been learned enough. They were learned to some extent, but not enough. There were still genocides after the Holocaust, and antisemitism and racism still exist. See what happened in Bosnia, in Rwanda and what is still happening in Darfur, and the world is still looking away. Antisemitism is now despised in West, but it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist at all anymore, and there is hatred against other groups of people, and in many Muslim countries antisemitism is strong and fashionable and supported by the media, and people like Ahmadinejad deny the Holocaust and want to "wipe Israel off the map".

Answer 3

Well, funnily enough, a lot of the medical knowledge we have today comes from the experiments done on Holocaust victims. Truth is, without the Holocaust, there was no other way to get some of the medical knowledge. Even though a lot of people died and if scarred a population and the world, is had benefited the present day people.
Also, in a bad sense, the Holocasut is what pushed the U.S. to get a nuclear wep. Now, we have all kinds of nuclear weapons with the possibly of nuclear war starting everyday. There is actually research being done and progress being made that will produce a nuclear bomb that will destory the population and the surrounding area, but there will be no nuclear fallout and the soil will not be tainted will nuclear radiation. There is also a bomb called a bio-bomb that will only kill living things and not touch buildings. This is so invasions and killings can be done and there will still be buildings left standing for people to inhabit.

Answer 4

Well, just for right now, the Holocaust is looked at as a horrible act/time/situation (which is was of course), and people just have a negative outlook. In a way, they should, it was terrible, but as I believe someone else has answered, we Do have alot of medical information from that testing. Joseph Mengele, and those other doctors did something horrible that can assit us today.

i guess in a way we've learned that in a weak time/location of termoil, which for this would be post WW1 germany, desperation can be a bad jar of judgement / electing adolf hitler into power. so i guess.

Answer 5

how has the holocaust affected my existence. those have the hurtfull memories. of being held on the camps. the dread of it might happening lower back extraordinarily right here in usa. it provides us an open innovations to make specific you anticipate the unpredicted . and to make specific our technology now might soak as much as concideration that the folk that suffered by using heart soreness and dying, have worked troublesome now to maintain us secure and enjoyed. i additionally wish that sometime we could have cometo some style of peace with eachother and ourselves.

Answer 6

First it had nothing to do with developing nukes. It hasn't meant a thing. Look how the world has let this happen again and again since then. the only lasting impact is we here about it all the time and ignore it in all the other places.

Answer 7

When people are being abused by their own country--investigate, not ignore the complaints. The UN investigates all complaints except from the smaller countries in Africa that have no natural resources to offer the world community.

Answer 8

My hope is that it opened the world's eyes to the cruelty and hatred that comes from racism and cultural differences. Perhaps there lies a fear in all of all (Christian, Jewish, Muslim) that didn't exist before.

Answer 9

the holocaust is the reason for all the tension in the middle east between, jews and palistinions. for 50 something years.

Answer 10

by learning about them, we are able to know what it feels like to be like them..we learned that we should not belittle them