The reason the Holocaust started was the under line hatred of the Jewish people. Most of the Jewish people were rich or wealthy. They weren't as social outside of their families as most Germans were. After World War 1, the German's were mad they lost the war, and blamed their debt on the Jewish people. The hatred built up and finally led into the ghettos, where they segregated the Jewish people.
One story we read about the Holocaust was Luba. Luba was a female adult that was in Bergen Belsen concentration camp. One night she heard a bunch of children screaming and she went to see what was wrong. She asked them what was wrong and the oldest one said they were to be killed at Auschwitz. She told them to come into her cabin. She said she would give a home because someone took her son as well. Throughout the years in the HOlocaust she had to find food for 54 kids and at the end of the war there was only 52 left. Some had died of starvation.
One day she looked out her window of the cabin and saw a number of tanks rolling in and a man standing on top of one setting them free. After the war Luba moved to the United States. Thirty years later she was reunited with thirty of the children she saved that night. I liked this story because it is amazing how one person could save all those children and find enough food for them all those years.
I think it is improtant to remember the Holocaust becuase we need to learn from our mistakes, so something that tragic won't happen again. The other reason it is important is because we need to choose the right leaders, not ones that will change everything, in a horrible way.
Daniel