Where did they get these radios? From us, of course” (Dworkin 56). This is an indication that the Nazis during this time were treating the Jews very unfairly and expresses their superiority by taking away their valuable items. Additionally, without these radios, cameras, bicycles, electrical appliances, and other valuables, the Jewish citizens would be more isolated and more easily terrorized because these items could be ways of showing their financial status and a way of communicating with others. As a result, when the main character Edith of the story realizes that there is a prejudice against Jews, she avoids her cultural ways and obeys the Nazis in hopes to protect herself from future abusive behaviors induced by the German culture. The Jews had to go undercover and evade the Nazis as much as possible for their safety and protection, and thus other individuals would provide aid to help them to stay low and unseen. Numerous Jews had to move from their residence because of the maltreatment they were receiving from the Nazis. Additionally, they had to lay low and remain unseen …show more content…
In this way, it leads to a central solution for Edith to escape many of her cultural ways for her safety and survival. Overall, Hitler’s philosophy of the Jews being evil and were of an inferior race had widespread across Europe leading to an Anti-Semitism. Europeans would begin to join in on this hatred towards Jews and discriminate them. In addition, the Nazis would take away Edith’s freedom by demanding her family’s radios, cameras, bicycles, etc as it is ‘essential to war efforts’ and causing her to constantly hide and seek help from others to remain in the darkness where she is unseen to prevent herself from being killed. Thus, this isolates her from society ultimately because she is Jewish. Furthermore, as things began to escalate Edith was forced to work in asparagus farming to supply for the home front where she is separated from her family. Additionally, she had the luxury of having aid and was able to relocate in Reich away from Vienna, the central location of the holocaust. Most importantly, the drastic number of Jewish deaths during the Holocaust has been unreasonable due to the inappropriate reason for this cause. In addition, it is illogical to make a race bend down on their knees and make them suffer by discriminating them and taking away their freedom only to