Argumentative Essay On The Holocaust

People who were involved with the resistance movement risked their lives to hide the Jews. Once her family went into hiding, they had to split up. Eva went with her mother and Heinz went with their father. They had to do this because none of the people within the resistance could hide a family of four. “The Germans really wanted to catch every Jew. At night, knocks would come from the street. They had to let the German soldiers in so they could search the homes.” The betrayal: After two years it became really difficult to find safe places to stay. It took Eva’s father three weeks to find a place, until a nurse came forward as a member of the resistance saying that she knew a safe place they could stay. “It turned out she (the nurse) was a double agent. You didn’t know whom you could trust.” The day after the nurse brought Heinz and their father to the “safe house,” the Nazis came to get them. Since the family had been separated while in hiding, Eva and her mother visited the others once every six weeks. It just so happened that Heinz and their father were taken, Eva and her mother came to visit. They didn’t know the Nazis had followed them back to their hiding place. “On my fifteenth birthday, the Nazis stormed in and took us away.” The …show more content…
“The Holocaust took place because individuals, groups and nations made choices or decisions to act or not to act. The Nazis believed that exterminating the Jews was justified because the Jews were not only a “low” and “evil” race, but were affecting the lives of the Germans negatively. Hitler and the Nazis blamed them for all the social and economic problems in Germany. As the pure Aryan race, it was therefore their right and obligation to get rid of the Jews. Anti-Semitism was a large part of the Nazis ideas. Hitler wanted to exterminate all Jews. Many people supported the Nazis and their racist ideas” (How and why did the Holocaust happen?