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Thoughts After Reading The Girl in the Red Coat

高二庚 覃昭雅

In 1941, Germany occupied Poland. In a cold and dark ghetto, a little two-year-old girl huddled
in the corner of the filthy room full of strangers she didn’t know, hoping after tomorrow there would
be no more grudge, no more blood, and no more dread, but just a peaceful and happy childhood. When
Roma Ligocka was only a toddler, she traveled for thousands of miles with her mother to find a safe
home, always being afraid of curfews, making fake IDs to escape from nighttime raids, and knocking
on one stranger’s door after another’s to find a place to sleep at night. People were facing death, fear,
and separation. This is a story of a historical tragedy—the Holocaust.
During World War Two, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi regime was involved
in a massive genocide, killing millions of Jews and innocent civilians. The Germans established
concentration camps and ghettos to keep the Jews confined, which made it easy for them to have the
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latter transported to gas stations or labor camps. The Jews were also not allowed to drive their own
cars, forbidden to go to entertainment places, and had to turn in all of their properties. The slaughter
continued for twelve years, and finally came to a halt after the Allied troops triumphed over Germany,
saving millions of Jewish prisoners and liberating them from years of inhuman treatment.
The Holocaust reminds me of the Nanking massacre that happened in China. After the Japanese
troops captured Nanking, the Chinese civilians refused to obey the Japanese military junta, thus
causing the huge tragedy that brought about the destruction of one third of the city and took away the
lives of an estimated three hundred thousand people.

When I was in elementary school, my grandmother always told me historical stories after I
finished my homework. One day, she told me the real experience of her friend, who had been through
the Nanking massacre himself. When he was only fourteen, the Japanese invaded his hometown,
Nanking. He was really young then, but he and his family had to flee the village to look for hidings. He
made friends with the head of the military engineers who were stationed in the area they were hiding.
Unfortunately, one night, five soldiers raided the house and drove him and his father out of the house,
and then they started harassing the females. The section head saved them from the sudden attack, but
his grandmother died of blood loss. He was grateful he could survive the massacre, but the killing gave
him a traumatic experience that haunted him for life.
I think it terribly wrong that we should judge a person by his or her religion or race. And it is an
unforgivable sin to kill people just because they are different. What can really help us prevent all these
from happening is that we should respect each other and make the world a much more peaceful place
to live in.

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