Bohdan: The Unnecessary People

When I visited a concentration camp, it felt like I was in a film. Because it was really hard for me to imagine that I was in a place where hundreds of thousands of people had been killed. People in the concentration camps were given numbers and letters depending on their punishment. The greatest crime was to be born a Jew. It Is hard for me to believe, but it

is actually a complete dehumanisation of a race of the people. Even if you commit a terrible offence, you would not get the "worst" number, but a Jewish child would. Although they literally did nothing. The census emphasised race and ethnicity. Where one nationality and group of people turned out to be valuable and other nations were not needed. And with these unnecessary people they did terrible things. Experiments and working under impossible conditions killed people. Genocide is a terrible thing and it is almost unbelievable we are still allowing them to happen today.