The Values and Responsibilities That Arise From Holocaust Study

I learned about the Holocaust in school. I then had much of what I learned reinforced in a very visual way when I traveled through Europe. In university, as a student of political theory, many of the theoretical concepts I studied grew out of the aftermath of the Holocaust. I have watched many documentaries related to the Holocaust and, most recently, have watched much of the Eichmann trial that took place in Jerusalem. I found the trial particularly fascinating in its references to international legal instruments that were implemented in response to the horrors of the Holocaust and destruction of World War II: the Charter of the United Nations, the Geneva Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, for example.
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