Connection Across Time

During the years of World War II a massive genocide took place among the Jewish people. The Nazi party took the lives of over 6 million Jewish people, based on the idea that they were performing an "ethnic cleansing." This genocide came to be known as the Holocaust and events ranged from destruction of Jewish homes and businesses, to outright execution of Jewish people using methods such as gas chambers. Despite the Nuremberg Trials' attempt to right the wrongs done by the Nazis, genocide still happens to this day. Events such as the genocide in Darfur, Sudan in 2004 are similar to, and connect to the events of the Holocaust. In Darfur, the Janjaweed people claimed responsibility for the execution of over 70,000 non-Arab people. They also created over 1.5 million refugees from Darfur. All of this happened while the U.N. stood by and hesitated to act. Hopefully one day we will put an end to genocide all around the world, but as of now, it is still an issue that connects and relates to the events of the Holocaust from the World War II era.