Shoulder the responsibility —Reflection journal

It was a Wednesday when I entered the Museum of Tolerance who designated themselves to “examine racism and prejudice around the world with a strong focus on the history of the Holocaust.” Though the majority of contents emphasized on Germans killing Jews, I found it educational and truly universal. It’s everyone’s prejudice which wrote the unpleasant history. It’s particularly we collegians who shoulder the responsibility, to promote tolerance, to absorb ideas, to contribute to the future.
It suddenly struck me when it came to a wall carving the names contributing to Jewish survival. I was stunned by the lacking name as I previously consider saving others as human nature. On the other side was a industrialized genocide machine executing restlessly involving immense resources and intense manpower. It was without doubt that few managed to pass the humanity test while the vast majority participated in the crime. Extreme impact was imposed on me and shaking my values vibrantly as I previously believe men were born kind and “People” is always right. I was completely impressed and shocked to find the majority, which I used to call ”People”, doing massive scaled crime.
It’s far beyond the Nazis who own an apology. They initiated the crime, but as for execution, it’s far beyond Nazis alone. Despite people’s will to be kind, Countless German residents commited crimes, scientists determined to follow the example of Hilbert and Planck, musicians used to perform Mozart and Schubert, workers concentrated on manufacturing Volkswagen, who ought to leave their contributions, positively, not negatively. It’s definitely not Hitler alone who initiated hatred towards Jews. Now I consider him only a trumpet, who declares some people’s hatred publicly, who released and backed their idea of hate crime, who turned what they WANTED TO do to what they actually did—braking Jewish stores and removing their shelters.
It terrified me that everyone can turn into devils instantly. I failed to guarantee myself to maintain kind confronting the situation and I’m truly afraid of turning evil one day without even awareness. It was then when I began to understand “Tolerance”—without eliminating tolerance tragedies will reoccur, undoubtedly. History tends to repeat itself unless human learn lessons, even if human learn lessons.
It was also than when I began to realize our responsibility and seek our actions. I consider knowledge as the weapon combating lies, ideas as the shields confronting evil thoughts. We promote equality by releasing and searching essays on the Internet without restrictions to receivers. We eliminated prejudice by discussing leading edges and exchanging professional references online. We enhanced tolerance by cooperating with LGBTs on contests and researches respecting their decision. Books never fails to treat people equally. We should shoulder our responsibility, equip ourselves with advanced ideas and detailed knowledge, take actions immediately, right away.
The Holocaust is a mirror, indicating our hidden wicked side, reflecting the lack of tolerance for every individual. Fortunately, we can shoulder responsibilities, we can take actions. Future is ours and we’re bound to make the future better.