“Henoch Kornfeld was born in late 1938 in Kolbuszowa to Moishe Kornfeld, and Liba Saleschutz. Around his first birthday, Germany invaded Poland and soon reached Kolbuszowa. After a short battle, Henoch’s town became under German’s rule. Henoch and his family were deported to the Rzeszow ghetto on June 25th, 1942. Then they where moved to Belzec ectermination camp on July 7th, where they were gassed to death. Henoch was three and a half year old.” Literature today helps us remember the victims and the survivors of the Holocaust. If we did not have documents and stories, we would not have any knowledge about the millions of people who died. We would not be able to remember everyone who unwilling lost their lives.
“Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Literature helps are generations, and future generations, know about past and current genocides and it can help us realize the horrors of it. In the quote, it is saying if we forget then we open the door for history to repeat itself. Now we can easily see what has happened in the past and it gives us a greater chance to stop future genocides. If we did not have these documents, we would not have sources…show more content… Because we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.” Elie says this quote in his acceptance speech. It shows that we need to remember the Holocaust, because if we forget them, we can open the door for history to repeat itself. There are many ways to remember. You can go to your local library and pick up a book. Night is a book about a young boy named Elie and his world gets turned from a bright day to a dark night. It is a memoir about his expeirence in the Holocaust. You could also go to the Holocaust museum or their website. On their website they have identification cards that gives you a person and their role in the Holocaust. It can put us into their shoes and make is eager to remember all the lost
