During World War Two the German’s began a process of trying to exterminate Jewish people which would later be called the Holocaust. This life scaring period of time held many gruesome and traumatizing sites for many people. When people go back to study this horrible period of time many are appalled and grossed out. To let kids in or below high school study the Holocaust with graphic details would be wrong and they should not be exposed to many of the photos of graphic descriptions of the Holocaust until they are out of high school and are ready to be exposed to these details.
When a speaker from the National Holocaust Memorial Museum stated that they thought that students below college were not ready to study the Holocaust in great depth, they made a very valid statement for many reasons. Childhood it is a time when kids are molded and learn right from wrong and about the world. Children often learn about violence, but not it great detail so they aren’t exposed to graphic images. When children learn about the Holocaust it would be a huge mistake to hear and see many of the violent things that took place. If children saw this it could scar them for life. By seeing and hearing graphic detail about
Many books and movies that are introduced to schools about the Holocaust are often to traumatic for high schoolers to deal with. One example of this would be the book Night by Elie Wiesel. This book often goes in too much detail about what happened during the Holocaust. For example, in the book it often went into detail about what people looked like or how they were dying in the concentration camp. In many circumstances this grosses students out and it causes them to not want to study the Holocaust in the future. The book also went into much detail about how the Nazi’s beat the Jews and about how they were killed. This violence is tough on students who are not ready for it and is better presented to a audience with a higher level of maturity. Another example of traumatizing material was in the movie’s we had watched during class. These movies showed pictures of mutilated bodies and many dead and tortured people during the Holocaust. These graphic pictures can be very tough on a student because it is something that they haven’t really ever been exposed to. These images can cause someone to never what to hear or learn about the Holocaust ever again because of experiences
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