The picture on the left, Arbeit Macht Frei, is the saying on the gates of Auschwitz, one of the major and most brutal concentration camps during the holocaust, where the majority of the victims of this genocide died in. The saying on the gates, the first thing that the prisoners would see as they reluctantly entered means "work will set you free" which is an ironic lie because the thoughts of the Nazis as they captured these innocent people was "noone will be free" and that everyone that enters would never leave, and would die in that very same camp.

For my project, my partner and I would like to present during class, along with the use of a powerpoint just to reinforce the major points and facts that we would like our classmates to know and understand. Also, we would like to address the dilema behind there being so many bystanders watching these awful hate crimes and acts of genocide taking place. We would like it to be an in depth, thoughtful, and emotional project that we hope our classmates could sympathize with and think of the Holocaust in a different way.

So far for this holocaust project I have researched basic death statistics of the holocaust, just to get an idea of the types of races and people that Adolf Hitler targeted. For example
6. million jews
1.5 million children (approximately)
5.5-7 million Ukranians
3.3 million Russion POW's
2 million Russian civilians
3 million poles
1.5 million Yugoslovians
200,000 - 500,000 gypsies
tens of thousands homosexuals
tens of thousands spanish republicans
2,500 - 5,000 jehova's witnesses

http://www.ukemonde.com/holocaust/victims.html

Of course, some of these numbers overlap and this is not the total number of deaths of the Holocaust

Also, I have researched some reasons why people just stood by as bystanders and watched their neighbors, friends, and family get murdered, and there isn't a set list of reasons available, but I have inferred a few on my own.
1. Fear
2. Ignorance of the entire situation
3. Misleading information
4. Protecting themselves by abiding to the laws and ways of Hitler
5. Indifference

The Holocaust was an intense and horrible example of genocide that our world just let happen without protest. Approximately 12 million people were killed in total, and noone tried to stop them for a long amount of time. In today's society, if people try to kill an animal, or try to cut down a forest, PEDA steps in immediately to help, and there are "treehuggers" who instantaneously protest against the slaughtering of the trees, but we let our own kind be murdered just because one person, one man believed in the "aryan race" and if people did not fit under his idea of the perfect race, they did not have a reason to live and he solved that problem by killing innocent people, women and children, babies. If this type of situation were to happen today, would the world try to stop it? Or would we overlook it just like we did during the Holocaust?