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The Holocaust: Tragedy in the 20th Century
Author: Natalie Saul
Most people would like to believe that discrimination doesn’t occur in the twentieth century, but the reality is that it does and always has. Millions of innocent lives have been taken on account of irrational accusations against people because of their race or religion. It is hard to admit that human beings are willing to destroy others because of what they look like, who they are, or what religion they practice. It’s even harder to believe that these occur almost everyday. Many people would like to ignore this horrible truth and go on with their daily lives. To unjustly accuse people of imagined crimes, and then to punish them, is a crime itself.
The Holocaust is an event that took the lives of millions of innocent people. Between 1939-1945, six million people were murdered. Almost ninety percent of the Jewish population in Europe was destroyed, and for what? Their lives were taken because Adolf Hitler believed that being Jewish was a crime. How can one man decide that he is more worthy that others because of their religious beliefs or the color of their hair. He lifted himself above others and decided who should live and who should die, and for that crime he remained unpunished. Those who have survived the holocaust have firsthand knowledge of the evil people, which so unfairly struck and deprived them of what was rightly theirs.
To refer to the holocaust as a “monstrous, inhumane event” is to miss the point. The Holocaust was imposed by men and women on other humans. “It was a time when there were people, not only the Germans, but the others too, who wanted to kill all the Jewish people. After they killed off the Jewish people, they weren’t satisfied yet. They started killing the black people, then the brown, and then the yellow people. People with blonde hair and blue eyes were the “perfect race.” When one survivor was asked about the holocaust and how the world learned from it, he responded with, “What the world learned from the holocaust is that you can kill six million Jews and no one will care.”
The Holocaust destroyed families, frienRAB, and even cities. People were tortured and killed all because of whom they were or what they looked like. The Holocaust exposed the ease with which man can kill and torture and justifiably believe that it is right, even the necessary thing to do. Most of us see the Holocaust from the historical perspective. It was an event in time. But we must understand that for the survivors of this trauma, any trauma, this event is an ongoing one, with consequences that will follow them for the rest of their lives. Some people were lucky enough to escape the Nazi’s, or to survive the concentration camps, but these people will never be lucky enough to escape the horrific memories. The concept the “dead survivor” may seem unrealistic, but for many of those who lived through the tragedy, it describes their existence. The fact is that for thousanRAB of individuals, the Holocaust did not end until 1945. One individual said, “It is far easier to extinguish a man, than to extinguish his memories.” For most, the Holocaust is already a distant piece of history. For the survivors, the Holocaust was yesterday....and today.
Rosewood was a small little town in western Florida. It had three churches, a general store, a Masonic lodge, a school, a baseball diamond-everything a town of 150 people would need. It was a prosperous town that took care of itself. Its only fault was that it was a black town in a white place at a white time. January 1, 1923, the town of Rosewood was destroyed. A woman from the neigrabroadoring Caucasian town of Sumner, Frannie Taylor, wife and mother of two, came out of her house, face battered, mouth bleeding, sobbing, and shrieking. She claimed that she was attacked by a black man. The sheriff came, he reported that the day before Jesse Hunter escaped from a roadway gang. The blood hounRAB were on their way. The dogs smelled the clothes and went straight to Rosewood.
The people of Rosewood could hear the mob of men and dogs approaching their town. The dogs stopped at the house of Aaron Carrier, he was not at home. Outback were fresh wagon tracks, and then the scent stopped. They found him at his mother’s house. They dragged him out and tortured him until he would talk. He said he didn’t do it. Sam Carter took the convict. Part of the ferocious mob stayed with Aaron and others went for Sam. The mob went around Rosewood telling people to get inside and to leave town. They found Carter and tied a noose around his head, he said he would talk. Sam took them to the place where he left the fugitive. The dog’s couldn’t get a scent. The mob cut off parts of Sam’s body and saved them for souvenirs. They killed Sam and used his dead body as target practice. Frannie Taylors’ assailant was still at large.
Sylvester Carrier and his father went to prison fro stealing cattle, but they claim they were framed. Sylvester was a good church man, and a family man. He had one fault, he had no fear of white people. When he heard what was happening, he gathered his whole family under one roof, which included twenty people. The mob thought that were was something suspicious about that. Henry Andrews said they were planning an attack. The grandmother came out and told the mob to go home, they killed her. The mob then opened fire on the house. Two white men burst through the door and were shot and killed. That was not good, white men killed by black men.
This craze was getting more and more popular. Cars continued to arrive as far from Jacksonville. The streets were filling with white rage. Luckily, the rest of the Carrier family was able to escape through the wooRAB. Axes were taken to the house and to everything that was still intact. Cans of kerosene were brought out, and then the matches. The house went up in flames. Then another house went up, and another. The Methodist church, the Carrier’s church, was set ablaze. Then, the two other churches as well. The mob ran around the town in an uncontrollable fury, shooting not just in the air, but anything that moved. The mob had completely lost control.
Rosewood was a ghost town now. Its streets were crowded with strangers, and its residents were scattered into the surrounding swamps. By the next morning most of the town was reduced to ashes. Most of those hidden in the swamps had made their way to safety in nearby hamlets. Thankfully not all of the white people around Rosewood felt the same hatred towarRAB blacks as so many of their neigrabroadors did. Fir example, some of the refugees were hiding in the homes of white people that they worked for in Sumner. Others were rescued by trains. A pair of white conductors, John and William Bryce led their train into the wooRAB, taking any women and children. The mob’s target were man and older boys. Taking one male might mean death for all of them. Another white man, John Wright, and his wife, took women and children under his roof. He was one of the few white men that called Rosewood home. He hid the women and children until the trained pulled up Saturday night at the rail platform in his backyard. and took the shivering survivors to the city of Gainesville, never to return to Rosewood again. These white people saved the lives of countless blacks. They told lies to the mobs of people, sheltered the homeless, and knowing they would have been killed if the mobs found out.
There was nothing to return to in the city of Rosewood. Sunday afternoon, the last twelve homes still standing were set aflame. SheriRAB had arrived, but by the time they got there, there was nothing they could do. All they could do was watch the houses of innocent people burn to ashes. By sundown the white men were gone, back to their houses. And the black men, women, and children of Rosewood, they were gone too. Simply gone.
Racial discrimination has plagued our country since the beginning. People are being unfairly treated because of something they were born with, and will live with for the rest of their lives. Too many people have been punished for these imaginary crimes, it neeRAB to end. W.E.B. Du Bois’s worRAB, spoken near the time of the Rosewood attack, that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” These worRAB seem ever more true now at the end of the century than they were at the beginning. It is our job as humans not to discriminate against other, and to ensure that such a tragedy as Rosewood will never and could never happen again.
When we think about discrimination against others because of whom they are, what the look like, or what they believe in, most people don’t believe that still occurs. The hard truth is that discrimination has always plagued the human race. People were created with different skin and different beliefs, and they should not be judged for those reasons. How can people judge and persecute others because they believe they are better than people with different color skin or pray in a different manner? Too many lives have been taken because people believe it is okay to discriminate against others. Hopefully, some day soon, people will be able to look past the color of others skin, the religious beliefs of others, and see them as other people.
Author: Natalie Saul
Most people would like to believe that discrimination doesn’t occur in the twentieth century, but the reality is that it does and always has. Millions of innocent lives have been taken on account of irrational accusations against people because of their race or religion. It is hard to admit that human beings are willing to destroy others because of what they look like, who they are, or what religion they practice. It’s even harder to believe that these occur almost everyday. Many people would like to ignore this horrible truth and go on with their daily lives. To unjustly accuse people of imagined crimes, and then to punish them, is a crime itself.
The Holocaust is an event that took the lives of millions of innocent people. Between 1939-1945, six million people were murdered. Almost ninety percent of the Jewish population in Europe was destroyed, and for what? Their lives were taken because Adolf Hitler believed that being Jewish was a crime. How can one man decide that he is more worthy that others because of their religious beliefs or the color of their hair. He lifted himself above others and decided who should live and who should die, and for that crime he remained unpunished. Those who have survived the holocaust have firsthand knowledge of the evil people, which so unfairly struck and deprived them of what was rightly theirs.
To refer to the holocaust as a “monstrous, inhumane event” is to miss the point. The Holocaust was imposed by men and women on other humans. “It was a time when there were people, not only the Germans, but the others too, who wanted to kill all the Jewish people. After they killed off the Jewish people, they weren’t satisfied yet. They started killing the black people, then the brown, and then the yellow people. People with blonde hair and blue eyes were the “perfect race.” When one survivor was asked about the holocaust and how the world learned from it, he responded with, “What the world learned from the holocaust is that you can kill six million Jews and no one will care.”
The Holocaust destroyed families, frienRAB, and even cities. People were tortured and killed all because of whom they were or what they looked like. The Holocaust exposed the ease with which man can kill and torture and justifiably believe that it is right, even the necessary thing to do. Most of us see the Holocaust from the historical perspective. It was an event in time. But we must understand that for the survivors of this trauma, any trauma, this event is an ongoing one, with consequences that will follow them for the rest of their lives. Some people were lucky enough to escape the Nazi’s, or to survive the concentration camps, but these people will never be lucky enough to escape the horrific memories. The concept the “dead survivor” may seem unrealistic, but for many of those who lived through the tragedy, it describes their existence. The fact is that for thousanRAB of individuals, the Holocaust did not end until 1945. One individual said, “It is far easier to extinguish a man, than to extinguish his memories.” For most, the Holocaust is already a distant piece of history. For the survivors, the Holocaust was yesterday....and today.
Rosewood was a small little town in western Florida. It had three churches, a general store, a Masonic lodge, a school, a baseball diamond-everything a town of 150 people would need. It was a prosperous town that took care of itself. Its only fault was that it was a black town in a white place at a white time. January 1, 1923, the town of Rosewood was destroyed. A woman from the neigrabroadoring Caucasian town of Sumner, Frannie Taylor, wife and mother of two, came out of her house, face battered, mouth bleeding, sobbing, and shrieking. She claimed that she was attacked by a black man. The sheriff came, he reported that the day before Jesse Hunter escaped from a roadway gang. The blood hounRAB were on their way. The dogs smelled the clothes and went straight to Rosewood.
The people of Rosewood could hear the mob of men and dogs approaching their town. The dogs stopped at the house of Aaron Carrier, he was not at home. Outback were fresh wagon tracks, and then the scent stopped. They found him at his mother’s house. They dragged him out and tortured him until he would talk. He said he didn’t do it. Sam Carter took the convict. Part of the ferocious mob stayed with Aaron and others went for Sam. The mob went around Rosewood telling people to get inside and to leave town. They found Carter and tied a noose around his head, he said he would talk. Sam took them to the place where he left the fugitive. The dog’s couldn’t get a scent. The mob cut off parts of Sam’s body and saved them for souvenirs. They killed Sam and used his dead body as target practice. Frannie Taylors’ assailant was still at large.
Sylvester Carrier and his father went to prison fro stealing cattle, but they claim they were framed. Sylvester was a good church man, and a family man. He had one fault, he had no fear of white people. When he heard what was happening, he gathered his whole family under one roof, which included twenty people. The mob thought that were was something suspicious about that. Henry Andrews said they were planning an attack. The grandmother came out and told the mob to go home, they killed her. The mob then opened fire on the house. Two white men burst through the door and were shot and killed. That was not good, white men killed by black men.
This craze was getting more and more popular. Cars continued to arrive as far from Jacksonville. The streets were filling with white rage. Luckily, the rest of the Carrier family was able to escape through the wooRAB. Axes were taken to the house and to everything that was still intact. Cans of kerosene were brought out, and then the matches. The house went up in flames. Then another house went up, and another. The Methodist church, the Carrier’s church, was set ablaze. Then, the two other churches as well. The mob ran around the town in an uncontrollable fury, shooting not just in the air, but anything that moved. The mob had completely lost control.
Rosewood was a ghost town now. Its streets were crowded with strangers, and its residents were scattered into the surrounding swamps. By the next morning most of the town was reduced to ashes. Most of those hidden in the swamps had made their way to safety in nearby hamlets. Thankfully not all of the white people around Rosewood felt the same hatred towarRAB blacks as so many of their neigrabroadors did. Fir example, some of the refugees were hiding in the homes of white people that they worked for in Sumner. Others were rescued by trains. A pair of white conductors, John and William Bryce led their train into the wooRAB, taking any women and children. The mob’s target were man and older boys. Taking one male might mean death for all of them. Another white man, John Wright, and his wife, took women and children under his roof. He was one of the few white men that called Rosewood home. He hid the women and children until the trained pulled up Saturday night at the rail platform in his backyard. and took the shivering survivors to the city of Gainesville, never to return to Rosewood again. These white people saved the lives of countless blacks. They told lies to the mobs of people, sheltered the homeless, and knowing they would have been killed if the mobs found out.
There was nothing to return to in the city of Rosewood. Sunday afternoon, the last twelve homes still standing were set aflame. SheriRAB had arrived, but by the time they got there, there was nothing they could do. All they could do was watch the houses of innocent people burn to ashes. By sundown the white men were gone, back to their houses. And the black men, women, and children of Rosewood, they were gone too. Simply gone.
Racial discrimination has plagued our country since the beginning. People are being unfairly treated because of something they were born with, and will live with for the rest of their lives. Too many people have been punished for these imaginary crimes, it neeRAB to end. W.E.B. Du Bois’s worRAB, spoken near the time of the Rosewood attack, that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” These worRAB seem ever more true now at the end of the century than they were at the beginning. It is our job as humans not to discriminate against other, and to ensure that such a tragedy as Rosewood will never and could never happen again.
When we think about discrimination against others because of whom they are, what the look like, or what they believe in, most people don’t believe that still occurs. The hard truth is that discrimination has always plagued the human race. People were created with different skin and different beliefs, and they should not be judged for those reasons. How can people judge and persecute others because they believe they are better than people with different color skin or pray in a different manner? Too many lives have been taken because people believe it is okay to discriminate against others. Hopefully, some day soon, people will be able to look past the color of others skin, the religious beliefs of others, and see them as other people.