The Holocaust

I believe that many people just stood by and watched the Holocaust take place because they were scared if they stood up and said something to try and help Jews or anyone else being affected by the holocaust, they would be the ones that would either get killed or also hurt. I think what inspired others to stand up and or even resist the Nazis was that they saw so many people and some of them being friends, being hurt or even killed when the Holocaust was happening. I think that those people who stood up just wanted to change the way things were going. I think that those people were tired of being scared and not being able to do anything. I learned that the people who stood up didn't just sometimes just killed, but some also lost their family members because of it. Many people that were upstanders didn't think much before they said something and tired to stop the Holocaust. The reason I say this is because if they did think too much about what they were going to do they might have just thought about themselves and stayed out of it. But the great part about them not thinking about themselves is by not being selfish they were able to get out their and try to stop what was going on. Of course some people did not get far on their protest because they were killed or something happened that they had to stop trying, but the ones that did get far in what they wanted to do to change the way things were helped save so many wonderful lives.