For so many years, Jews were part of a somewhat peaceful life. When one day Hitler decided to destroy all the Jews, he could. That is when disaster struck! Nazis started destroying all the Jews they could. Despite the dangers, non-Jews sacrificed their lives to help save Jews. In 1933, hell froze over in Poland. Nazis started to take over more and more of Poland every day. When Nazis started taking over Poland they made Jews stay in Ghettos. Ghettos were not fun at all, they had very little resources and barely any say. After a few months, the environment seemed to get worse. Jews had to wear the Star of David and soon after, the Jews were treated like cattle. The Nazis started invading the ghettos and taking the Jews to concentration camps.
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They did not like or agree with what Hitler was doing to the Jews. The non- Jews started to take matters into their own hands. They started helping the Jews escape the Nazis control. The non-Jews would risk there life and help the Jews by hiding them in their own houses. Non-Jews know the risk of getting caught one family took in three teen boys. Their neighbors were caught hiding Jews in their house and the neighbors were hung for it. After hearing this you would think they would get the Jews out of there house for their own safety. The families know the risk of hiding the Jews so the hanging did not stop them. The dad got sick and started taking medicine. Well one of the boys got sick. After a while, all three boys were sick. The dad that was sick would bring medicine home for him and give some of it to each of the boy. One of the boys died and the other two survived and had the family remembered at the Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust …show more content…
They would have to go to bed hungry because they had to share their food with the Jews that were hiding in their house. They also had to worry about someone betraying them. “There are people alive today who remember what those difficult days were like. Many where teenagers then, as were of those they saved” (Toby). “Jewish teens had to grow up quickly” (Toby).
The non-Jews that tried standing up for Jews were usually punished very quickly. Non-Jews learned very quickly how dangers it actually was to help Jews. “On the night of November 9-10, 1938, the Nazi policy of anti-Semitism went wild” (Toby). In every German town all the Jews houses and businesses were burned down. Instead of protecting the Jews property, many police officers joined in. hundreds of Jews were killed and some 31,000 Jewish men were killed. “By the mid-1939 about 300,000 Jews had managed to leave. Many Jews that survived were helped by non-Jews. More than 11,000 individuals that have been honored for their duties of helping save Jews. Teresa was walking home one night past curfew when she heard a little girl start to cry she looked to see who it
They did not like or agree with what Hitler was doing to the Jews. The non- Jews started to take matters into their own hands. They started helping the Jews escape the Nazis control. The non-Jews would risk there life and help the Jews by hiding them in their own houses. Non-Jews know the risk of getting caught one family took in three teen boys. Their neighbors were caught hiding Jews in their house and the neighbors were hung for it. After hearing this you would think they would get the Jews out of there house for their own safety. The families know the risk of hiding the Jews so the hanging did not stop them. The dad got sick and started taking medicine. Well one of the boys got sick. After a while, all three boys were sick. The dad that was sick would bring medicine home for him and give some of it to each of the boy. One of the boys died and the other two survived and had the family remembered at the Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust …show more content…
They would have to go to bed hungry because they had to share their food with the Jews that were hiding in their house. They also had to worry about someone betraying them. “There are people alive today who remember what those difficult days were like. Many where teenagers then, as were of those they saved” (Toby). “Jewish teens had to grow up quickly” (Toby).
The non-Jews that tried standing up for Jews were usually punished very quickly. Non-Jews learned very quickly how dangers it actually was to help Jews. “On the night of November 9-10, 1938, the Nazi policy of anti-Semitism went wild” (Toby). In every German town all the Jews houses and businesses were burned down. Instead of protecting the Jews property, many police officers joined in. hundreds of Jews were killed and some 31,000 Jewish men were killed. “By the mid-1939 about 300,000 Jews had managed to leave. Many Jews that survived were helped by non-Jews. More than 11,000 individuals that have been honored for their duties of helping save Jews. Teresa was walking home one night past curfew when she heard a little girl start to cry she looked to see who it