The Holocaust

1. Simply put, the Holocaust was the annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime during World War II. In 1933 approximately nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be occupied by Germany during the war and by 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been killed. The number of children killed during the Holocaust is not clear meaning that the statistics for the tragic fate of children who died will …

…mix with others. It is important to share this story today in our Australian culture when only 1% of our population is Jewish is to understand that everyone is equal. God has made us in our own different and unique but we all have the same rights as humans. To single out a different race is wrong, like the Germans did, and we have all learnt from this horrific experience that happened all those years ago.