The Holocaust is looked at as the most horrific genocide and mass murder in history, wiping out over 6,000,000 people between the 1933 and 1945. Most of them were Jews. But, while studying, many people believed that the Jews did not do anything to defy Nazi power. They ask the question, what did the Jews do in order to survive the Holocaust? The Jews did not necessarily physically fight the Nazis because of their brutal force. Although, they did many other things, like send their children to safer countries, hide themselves in the most unimaginable places, or even fight the Nazis, like the partisans. However, while looking at all of these points, one can see that they did not just start doing this. What made the Jews escalate into these things? Well, the awful ostracization that the Jews faced led them to it. Specific laws were even put into place, limiting the Jews basic human rights.
The Nuremberg Laws were unnecessary for the Jews. It gave them a specific curfew, it told them certain places that they were and were not allowed at, and it even told them how they had to live their daily lives: “Goebbel's urgent request ordered Germany’s Jews over the age of 6 to sew on their clothing a yellow Star of David”. The laws made Jews wear their …show more content…
Many times after someone applied, they would be rejected. Unlike those people, a small few got lucky: “My parents applied, and by pure luck, I was one of the chosen ones”. Herbert Levy was a young German boy when Hitler came into power. He was transported to the Netherlands, where he would stay until he would meet his parents: “ They were interned in a British camp for ‘enemy aliens’. Levy recalls being greeted with chants of ‘Bloody Germans!’ (‘This was quite amazing for me,’ he says, ‘because I had been shouted at as a “bloody Jew” until recently’”. Herbert Levy survived the Holocaust because of Kindertransport. Many other Jews used this method, like Ruth
The Nuremberg Laws were unnecessary for the Jews. It gave them a specific curfew, it told them certain places that they were and were not allowed at, and it even told them how they had to live their daily lives: “Goebbel's urgent request ordered Germany’s Jews over the age of 6 to sew on their clothing a yellow Star of David”. The laws made Jews wear their …show more content…
Many times after someone applied, they would be rejected. Unlike those people, a small few got lucky: “My parents applied, and by pure luck, I was one of the chosen ones”. Herbert Levy was a young German boy when Hitler came into power. He was transported to the Netherlands, where he would stay until he would meet his parents: “ They were interned in a British camp for ‘enemy aliens’. Levy recalls being greeted with chants of ‘Bloody Germans!’ (‘This was quite amazing for me,’ he says, ‘because I had been shouted at as a “bloody Jew” until recently’”. Herbert Levy survived the Holocaust because of Kindertransport. Many other Jews used this method, like Ruth