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A shroud of the study of the Holocaust rel- deep black has stretched itself across the sky. evant to students today?" Stars, like shards of fragmented glass, lie First place and $100 was sprinkled and embedded within the shroud. awarded to Ashley Thomas of Their dim light casts an eerie glow across Ferndale High School. Second the sky. How many times have I made place and $50 was awarded to wishes upon these sparkling fragments, hop- Elissa Kaner of Detroit ing with a child-like faith that they would Country Day School in come true? Beverly Hills. Third place and But those days are far away, just as the $25 was awarded to Liah pieces of glass that hang suspended over the earth. What is the use of hope? Hunger stabs me every waking moment of every day. Time ... here is frozen, the fragile pendu- lum that hangs suspended between life and death. A fetid smell overpowers this place, wrapping itself like heavy, damp velvet around me, engulfing me. Flakes of matter float carelessly from the sky, dirty snow blanketing the hard ground The chimneys methodically spill forth their dead, bear- ing witness to a greater evil. One day, I, too, like the countless before me, will be floating silently ASHLEY THOMAS to the unmarked grave of an indifferent Special to the Jewish News blue sky. —Ashley Thomas welve years. On a timeline, 12 years seems incredibly desperation, people will look for scape- short, but in the years that goats — something or someone to pin Adolf Hitler and his Nazis were in the cause of their problems on. The Jews power, the hell that was created is were easy targets because they had a unmatched by anything the world has ever known. During those years, six mil- long history of rejection and persecu- tion. It is easier for people to find blame lion Jews perished at the cold, callous in others rather than in themselves. hands of the Nazis simply because of The Holocaust was allowed to happen who they were. Concentration camps because of indifference. Most of the and gas chambers became a grave reality. German population was not part of the There were many factors that allowed Nazi party, but those who stood by are these atrocities against humanity to occur and there are far too many reasons as guilty of killing innocent men, women and children as those who actu- why we, the living, must remember. ally fired the bullets or poured the The Holocaust, the slaughter of six cyanide pellets into the gas-chambers. million innocent Jews as well as count- Millions died because people listened less others, was permitted to occur due and accepted the propaganda that was to a variety of factors. At the end of fed to them. Millions of people died World War I, Germany was devastated because the rest of the population and humiliated by defeat. Hitler came stopped thinking for themselves. Once to power at a time when people were Hitler had control over the minds of the desperate for answers. 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