Question

How can the Holocaust help us find similarities that go beyond race, culture, nationality, and so on?

Answer 1

Similarities to what?

Answer 2

In ourselves

Answer 3

I've often wondered what I would have done if I'd been a Holocaust victim or survivor. What thoughts have you had?

Have you read a <i>Diary of a Young Girl</i> by Anne Frank? I also recommend <i>Night</i> by Elie Wiesel.

Answer 4

I really don't know what kind of similarities your question is asking you to find. We do see discrimination based on lifestyle, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and a good many other things all over the world today. We do sse genocide in our own time, too. Ms. Sue makes a good point about the survivors of such atrocities. Survivors of the Holocaust, remarkable, have been able to forgive in many instances. Others want retribution. Some want "reparation". How we deal with such atrocities, in law, in a moral sense, etc. (it's a spectrum of responses) is probably what we can learn or find similarities to. What do YOU think?