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My book ends with two first hand accounts from Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck. Helen escapes the dreadful Holocaust and and Alfons survives through the war. They state why they wrote about the events that transpired and what they want other people to learn from them. This book matter because it teaches a valuable lesson: Violence isn't the answer. This book shows the ways that this issue could have been resolved without violence. They explain that instead of understanding and communicating with each other we seek vengeance and live with hatred. On page 223, Alfons Heck last words in this first hand account were, “My goal is to share with others the lessons I learned at such a tremendous and painful cost. I know now that genocide can happen in any society where people hate those that are different. When we allow ourselves to live with hatred and seek revenge against our enemies, we destroy all hope of understanding and communicating with each other. It is up to me to plant the seeds of this message in the minds of my readers and listeners. And I hope they will believe me. Only then will I feel that my survival had some meaning”. This message that Alfons and Helen were trying to communicate is still very valuable today. Leaders in other countries should and can think about instead of violence, they should understand their adversary and try to find a solution that doesn't involve war. This lesson can even be applied to something as little as an argument with a friend. That is the lesson from this book and that is why its still valuable today.
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