The Halocaust

Bruno Bettelheim's essay "The Holocaust" made me think about how we deal with difficult times in history. In this essay he states that the name "Holocaust" takes away the horror and emotion of the event. He believes that by using names like these, people can talk and refer to events like the Holocaust, without having an emotional attachment to it. He thinks that this is a bad thing because when people stop thinking about the horrors of events like this, they might forget. Forgetting about the holocaust and it horrors means that history could someday repeat itself.