American Jews

in Żegota where she was responsible for the children’s section.3 She began working as a social worker at the onset of World War Two, which two years later proved to be a substantial benefit.3 An outbreak of the typhus disease, with an average of 750 Jews dying in the Warsaw Ghetto per day, resulted in the Germans becoming apprehensive about whether it would be transmitted further into Warsaw.8,14 Thus, in efforts to reduce the advancement of the disease, the epidemic granted Irena Sendlerowa a…

The world we know today is no stranger to bigotry and hatred, often times specifically referring to religious or ethnic groups. With Christianity still dominating American values, whether it is in politics or social services, the two religious factions left out in the cold are the Jewish people and the Muslim people. Though anti-Semitism peaked in the 1920’s and 30’s, the effects still linger with discrimination and all around negative feelings at about 9% today . This is in contrast to…

conflict between the Hutsi and the Tutsi people began many years before the actual genocide took place. The Jews and the Germans conflict however, only began ounce Hitler rose to power and the Holocaust began. The methods in which the Nazis and Hutus used to eliminate their victims differed as well. The Nazis used work camps and concentration camps with gas chambers and shootings to kill the Jews, while the Hutus used mainly guns and machetes to kill the Tutsis. Lastly the Holocaust and the…

Identity is a common technical term used in contemporary sociological social psychology. The term “personal identity” was virtually unknown in sociology before the 1940s. (ERIKSON 5). Identity was a very big concern in the life of Erik Erikson throughout his childhood and even into his adulthood. Erikson was born in Frankfurt, Germany to a Danish mother, Karla Abrahamsen and Dr. Theodore Homburger, whom Erikson was lead to believe was his biological father. As it turned out, Dr. Homburger was a…

camps during the Holocaust was brutal and their lives were in the merciless hands of the SS officers. The Jews were taken from their homes and put into force labor and worked in conditions that were cold, rainy, muddy, and Jews slept on concrete or wooden beds. Jews first started out in the ghettos and then were moved to the concentration camps where selection and forced labor began. Many of Jews were killed and put through brutal lives. The prisoners lived their life through horrible living…

soldiers came to collect him, along with his family and friends as a teenager. The gathered Jewish people from his community were sent to Auschwitz Concentration Camp where many devastating events took place in the life of Wiesel and thousands of other Jews. Wiesel later moved to do incredible things, surviving the camp, writing dozens of successful poems and books, and becoming a social rights advocate around the world. (Berenbaum, n.p) His course through life influenced all of his writings,…

"… It is not an account of exceptional individuals. It is an account of exactly how noteworthy individuals can be… " Helmreich W. "Holocaust" came into our dialect from Greek. It is a word that was utilized to recognize penances that antiquated Jews made to their God. Amid these penances individuals were smoldered in flame. This word is very nearly an equivalent word to "death". These days it brings out pessimistic relationship in the psyches of the living individuals. Regardless of the fact…

in a time horror during World War Two. Over a six year span, this film follows a businessman named Oskar Schindler, on his quest to save more than 1,200 Jews from becoming prisoners in work and death camps across Europe. Through this film, Oskar Schindler’s mentality changes, as he comes to realization with the spiteful, horrific treatment the Jews endured due to the Nazi’s. Not only does this film teach the views about history but also about what affects discrimination can have on the world.…

and “Jewish Responses to Antisemitism” relate specifically to how anti-Semitism was affecting the Jewish people themselves and what their reaction to this kind of governmental hatred was. This solidifies the mindset the Nazi had against the Jews and what the Jews thought of this said attitude of the Nazi towards…

established amongst many places with different cultures, such as Iran, Israel, western Mediterranean, North Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Their roots come from the Middle East, especially Israel. The population of Israel has a mixture of native-born Jews, Arabs, and Jewish immigrants. Arabs is the largest group which in 2007 were 1,400,000 people, which accounted for approximately 20% of the population in this country (Ben-Arye, Lev, Keshet, & Schiff , 2011). Even though there is a diversity…