1st Draft Author's note

Bruno Houtzager

Class 810 1/19/15

Have you ever been a bystander, and have had to watch someone being bullied? Most people have seen many people being bullied but never stood up to the bully because they were afraid that they were going to be bullied too. Bullying can happen between you and your brother or sister, but also between countries and between religions. During the period of the Holocaust Nazis discriminated against many different races, Jewish people mainly. The Holocaust started by doing little things against these different races, first it was that Jews weren’t allowed to work at government jobs. The bullies, the Nazis, started pushing the boundaries, they wanted to test how far they could go. As the Jewish people were being discriminated against no one stood up and said, “this is not right this should stop”. So the Nazis continued bullying the jewish race, now Jewish doctors weren’t allowed to work on non-jewish people. Hitler made the lives of many Jews almost impossible. “During the first six years of Hitler's dictatorship, from 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939, Jews felt the effects of more than 400 decrees and regulations that restricted all aspects of their public and private lives.” (Paragraph 2)  No part Germany was untouched the Nazis.  

This topic is so important because kids around the world are being affected by this  problem. Kids being bullied can only be helped with bystanders. The bystanders can control the whole situation. I have seen a few problems in bullying that the bystanders solved the problem, but also the bystanders can make the situation much, much worse. In this book I tried to make the people be like animals, this gives allows me to go more indepth in the story. If I would use people the story would be more personal, personal cannot always be good for little kids.  

With this story I hope that you all have learned that the bystander has all of the power in the world against bullies. In this book I want to show you how bullies can have such a dramatic effect on people and how you can stop it. There only has to be one person standing up, so let it be you. “If you see something say something” (NYPD)

Works Cited

"The Aftermath of the Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 20 June 2014. Web. 18 Jan. 2015. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005129>.

"Anti-Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 20 June 2014. Web. 19 Jan. 2015. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005681>.