Ashkenazi Jews

witnessed. He said “He had a pistol in his hand and anything he saw moving, human beings, he shot, he used you for target practice.Life was absolutly,totally worthless to these people. That I remember.”(Lowenberg) Lowenberg was one of the millions of Jews who witnessed the horrific costs of war. He and many others will have to live with the memories, regrets, and loss for the rest of their lives. Their treatment in the concentration camps will not be forgotten. In William Golding’s “Lord Of The…

non-Jewish Polish governess stated, “It’s those Nazis stirring everybody up.” Anja replied, “When it comes to Jews, the Poles don’t need much stirring up!”(I/37). The Kapos in the books were non-Jewish Poles and they were brutal. Vladek states that all day they would kick, hit and yell until some dropped dead. They did this for “sport” (II/30). Some were anti-Semitic. The Kapo screamed at Vladek, “You Jew! You’ve only been here a few days and you’re ready to do business!” (II/33). He tells the…

the Holocaust that they grew up living as a reality. Transgenerational trauma not only affects those with direct relations to actual survivors, but impacts those who are a part of the culture through a strong collective identity. In the case of the Jews, this collective identity of resilience and victims of the past is appealing to many people who are Jewish but have no relation to any survivors of the…

The people of the dominant race are taught and bred during this stage to regard the lesser race as less than human. To Adolf Hitler, the jews, once a resected people were nothing more than rats that had infested his country. He had them taken into concentration camps and fed practically nothing. Some were then escorted to “showers” where they met a gas chamber, where they were killed. Genocide…

The Holocaust was a horrible event in history, and a time of terror for millions of Jewish people. The ultimate goal of Hitler and the Nazis was to exterminate all of the Jews and create a perfect Aryan race. The first step in this awful process required the establishment of ghettos. Ghettos were mainly used to keep the Jewish population in one place until the Germans could find a way to kill the entire population. The first ghetto was established in 1939, and the largest ghetto was the Warsaw…

ghettos were established for the Jews. Jews were then deported from their homes to live in these overcrowded ghettos. Due to the lack of food, water, space, and sanitary facilities, many died from deprivation and starvation. The ghettos assisted the Nazis in a sense by assisting with the elimination of the Jewish communities. By 1941, the “Final Solution” had begun; this consisted of four mobile killing groups that went into every town and gathered all the Jews, stripped them of everything,…

The popularization of Anti-Semitic behaviour and allegations have a long history in Europe. Particularly during the fin de siecle, anti-Jewish sentiments had increasingly found themselves to be in vogue, as much of the European population viewed the Jews as their misfortune. This notion was further agitated by the press running sensationalized stories that villainized the Jewish population. This paper will examine the extent to which the rise and vitality of Anti-Semitism during the fin de…

Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Ghandi, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, Malcolm X, our teachers and professors, Sonia Sotomayor, and even Jennifer Lawrence all have a common traits; they are all leaders known by many people worldwide. Not all were favorites in the eyes of the public, but all had a common goal to make the world or their country a better place, according to their own perspective. Everyone has their own definition of what they believe a leader is; some might say that a leader just…

in his body. After Wiesel trades his name for an assigned number, he realizes that he has already started to lose his identity by no longer recognizing his own name. Wiesel receives a taste of what is to come when Moishe the Beadle warns his fellow Jews of the violence he has seen, “Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine…

Lasting 12 years, the Holocaust was the mass genocide of Jewish people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and gypsies. It was estimated that 11 million people died during this time period, 6 million of which were Jews. The name Holocaust comes from the Greek word ‘Holokausten’, which means sacrifice by fire. According to most historians, the Holocaust began on April 1st, 1933, when Germany, under Nazi control, passed the first anti-semitic law, effectively boycotting all Jewish run businesses.…