The Pied Piper reminds me of the Holocuast because alot of people were taken away with the promise of a safe place.  Both of these event focused on one group of people and getting rid of them leaving a lasting impression on everyone whose heard the story of it or about it. Even though the pied Piper story is fictional it was based on the true events of the Children Crusade in England in 1212.

   During the holocaust alot of Jewish citizens in Germany and other surrounding countries were taken to concentration camps and brutially murdered or tortured over a long period of time. This is very sad to me because many innocent people were killed because of one evil person and the idiotic people that followed in his beliefs. Its something that has affected everyone from that time on in all parts of the world, showing how cruel any person or group of people could actually be.

   In the story the Pied Piper a man is promised by the British government that he would be payed if he could get rid of all of the rats/mice that were roaming the city. When the man does as the government says they dont hold up their end of the bargain and pay him, this results in the Pied Piper taken all of the children in their town and leading them somewhere that the parents of the town would never find them. This story was told as a historical fictional twist on the Childrens Crusades.In the Childrens Crusades over 30,000 children over Europe all went to Genoa to the Pope saying that they were their for a Christain were and that he difed them. The children then were turned around and sent back the way they came. None of the children ever made it home and that lead to the myth of the Pied Piper.