The Maltreatment of the Jewish
Imagine being forced to live with the fear of being punished or beaten at any second. That is what life was like for the Jews in concentration camps. They were forced to work long hours if they did not get sent to a killing center first. This means that the concentration camp was the better option, which is really bad because of how the Jews were treated. They were also forced to lose their identity as humans for the sake of the Nazi’s protection. There are many facts that support the reasons why the Jews were oppressed. They range from how the Jews were mistreated, to the amount of deaths of Jews by the end of the Holocaust. According to historical documents and journals, it is evident that Jews in concentration …show more content…
One example of a family that had to do this is the Frank family. They were forced into hiding in July 1942 after Margot, one of the Frank girls, received a letter asking her to go to a concentration camp. The Franks were in hiding for about twenty-five months, and during that time, they were limited to supplies and living space. Anne Frank kept a diary about her experience in hiding. On Monday, April 3, 1944, she wrote:
In the twenty-one months that we’ve spent here we have been through a good many “food cycles”-you’ll understand what that means in a minute. When I talk of “food cycles” I mean periods in which one has nothing else to eat but one particular dish or kind of vegetable. We had nothing but endive for a long time, day in, day out, endive without sand, stew with endive, boiled or en casserole; then it was spinach, and after that followed kohlrabi, salsify, cucumbers, tomatoes, sauerkraut, etc., etc. (Frank 195)
This shows that food was hard to come by for the Jews during the Holocaust, and also shows oppression because they were stuck eating the same thing day by day and other groups, like the Nazis and Germans, could eat what they wanted. On Wednesday, May 3, 1944, Anne …show more content…
The Nazis wanted to take the Jews ancestry away: “Personal items- birth certificates, diaries, diplomas, family photographs- were burned. The Germans wanted to destroy not only the Jews, but any indication they had come to the death camps” (Lace 29). This shows that the Nazis wanted to take away each Jew’s individuality and culture. By burning the birth certificates and photographs, it shows that the Nazis wanted to eliminate any factors that showed that the Jews ever lived and had their own lives and culture. They wanted to protect themselves by not leaving any evidence of taking the Jews into the concentration camps, and take away the Jews’ pasts and culture. In doing this, the Jews were being oppressed because of the fact that the Germans were treating them like they did not exist. Very few Jews survived these horrific concentration camps. One survivor, Filip Müller, said: “a soapless cold-water shave with razors so blunt that the hairs of one’s beard were torn out rather than shaved off” (Lace 43). This shows that the Jews were badly oppressed because they were being treated like animals and were not given anything to help them keep their originality. In shaving the Jews heads, the Nazis wanted to make the Jews feel like they were all alike and did not have any individuality. They wanted the Jews to forget their originality and in
Imagine being forced to live with the fear of being punished or beaten at any second. That is what life was like for the Jews in concentration camps. They were forced to work long hours if they did not get sent to a killing center first. This means that the concentration camp was the better option, which is really bad because of how the Jews were treated. They were also forced to lose their identity as humans for the sake of the Nazi’s protection. There are many facts that support the reasons why the Jews were oppressed. They range from how the Jews were mistreated, to the amount of deaths of Jews by the end of the Holocaust. According to historical documents and journals, it is evident that Jews in concentration …show more content…
One example of a family that had to do this is the Frank family. They were forced into hiding in July 1942 after Margot, one of the Frank girls, received a letter asking her to go to a concentration camp. The Franks were in hiding for about twenty-five months, and during that time, they were limited to supplies and living space. Anne Frank kept a diary about her experience in hiding. On Monday, April 3, 1944, she wrote:
In the twenty-one months that we’ve spent here we have been through a good many “food cycles”-you’ll understand what that means in a minute. When I talk of “food cycles” I mean periods in which one has nothing else to eat but one particular dish or kind of vegetable. We had nothing but endive for a long time, day in, day out, endive without sand, stew with endive, boiled or en casserole; then it was spinach, and after that followed kohlrabi, salsify, cucumbers, tomatoes, sauerkraut, etc., etc. (Frank 195)
This shows that food was hard to come by for the Jews during the Holocaust, and also shows oppression because they were stuck eating the same thing day by day and other groups, like the Nazis and Germans, could eat what they wanted. On Wednesday, May 3, 1944, Anne …show more content…
The Nazis wanted to take the Jews ancestry away: “Personal items- birth certificates, diaries, diplomas, family photographs- were burned. The Germans wanted to destroy not only the Jews, but any indication they had come to the death camps” (Lace 29). This shows that the Nazis wanted to take away each Jew’s individuality and culture. By burning the birth certificates and photographs, it shows that the Nazis wanted to eliminate any factors that showed that the Jews ever lived and had their own lives and culture. They wanted to protect themselves by not leaving any evidence of taking the Jews into the concentration camps, and take away the Jews’ pasts and culture. In doing this, the Jews were being oppressed because of the fact that the Germans were treating them like they did not exist. Very few Jews survived these horrific concentration camps. One survivor, Filip Müller, said: “a soapless cold-water shave with razors so blunt that the hairs of one’s beard were torn out rather than shaved off” (Lace 43). This shows that the Jews were badly oppressed because they were being treated like animals and were not given anything to help them keep their originality. In shaving the Jews heads, the Nazis wanted to make the Jews feel like they were all alike and did not have any individuality. They wanted the Jews to forget their originality and in