The Indissoluble Effects the Holocaust has left on America, German, and Jewish Society The Greek meaning of the word Holocaust is “sacrifice by fire, burnt offering”. The meaning fits perfectly with the actions that took place during the Holocaust. The Holocaust has somewhat burnt modern society, as Nazi activity is still prevailing now, in the present. German Society will forever have to deal with the horrible past of Nazi Germany, the shame and guilt provoked by the mass industrial killing of 6 million people, but Germans are trying to put out the flames that Hitler left. American Society seems to not be able to handle the flames as the amount of Anti-Semitic Hate crimes seems to be proliferating. While the Jewish community is doing the
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There were 1,986+ anti-Semitic incidents reported in 2017 in the United States. This includes physical assaults, vandalism, defacing Jewish institutions. This is a massive increase from 2016, which had a total of 1,267 reported crimes. These hate crimes were committed all across the country. You may have heard of the Unite the Right Rally, a rally fueled by hate planned for August 12th. General Robert E. Lee, a confederate icon, had a statue that was planned for removal. This caused a great uproar from white supremacists. The rally held a plethora of Nazis, who attended to the event carrying banners disrespecting the Jewish community. It has been reported that poles and other blunt force weapons were brought to the scene of the rally as well. Clearly Anti-Semitic activity has yet to disperse. Although it does seem unlikely that the memory of the holocaust would evanesce, it would be beneficial for the history of the holocaust to not be repeated. (“Charlottesville attack: What, where and …show more content…
In Florida a person was spat on and called a “lousy Jew”. In the same state, anti-Semitic KKK flyers posted all throughout residential neighborhoods terrified residents. In Nevada, “Kill all Jews” gripped attention as the first piece of graffiti people would see walking into this certain public park in Las Vegas. The list goes on and on, and there seems to be a perpetual number of attacks on the Jewish community. As we can see, this degrading of Jews is very vivid and prejudice, but that being said, it doesn’t erase the fact that this behavior is so detectable. No one can really say that racism against Jews was in the past and was only in Germany, anti-semitic behavior is all around America (“ Semitic-Anti 2017 of List Semitic
There were 1,986+ anti-Semitic incidents reported in 2017 in the United States. This includes physical assaults, vandalism, defacing Jewish institutions. This is a massive increase from 2016, which had a total of 1,267 reported crimes. These hate crimes were committed all across the country. You may have heard of the Unite the Right Rally, a rally fueled by hate planned for August 12th. General Robert E. Lee, a confederate icon, had a statue that was planned for removal. This caused a great uproar from white supremacists. The rally held a plethora of Nazis, who attended to the event carrying banners disrespecting the Jewish community. It has been reported that poles and other blunt force weapons were brought to the scene of the rally as well. Clearly Anti-Semitic activity has yet to disperse. Although it does seem unlikely that the memory of the holocaust would evanesce, it would be beneficial for the history of the holocaust to not be repeated. (“Charlottesville attack: What, where and …show more content…
In Florida a person was spat on and called a “lousy Jew”. In the same state, anti-Semitic KKK flyers posted all throughout residential neighborhoods terrified residents. In Nevada, “Kill all Jews” gripped attention as the first piece of graffiti people would see walking into this certain public park in Las Vegas. The list goes on and on, and there seems to be a perpetual number of attacks on the Jewish community. As we can see, this degrading of Jews is very vivid and prejudice, but that being said, it doesn’t erase the fact that this behavior is so detectable. No one can really say that racism against Jews was in the past and was only in Germany, anti-semitic behavior is all around America (“ Semitic-Anti 2017 of List Semitic