American Jews

against the Nazis to help fight and protect for the Jews who could not.Three brothers who had a rough childhood because of their lost loved ones, still fought to keep as many Jews alive as they possibly could. One resistance group that was sent and trained by the British, would actually jump out of a plane to fight the Nazis and help the Jews who were held captive. And another group would be organized and planned to attack Nazis , later leading many Jews to be able to escape later. The Bielski…

From 1933 to 1945 Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Black and Pink badges categorized millions in camps across northern Europe as they awaited slaughter. Jews, accounted for 6 million, but 5 million others created a remaining portion of those also persecuted. Groups such as Political prisoners, Gypsies, Homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses created many of those 5 million. People Germans considered Sub-human and Anti-authoritarian, Nazis subjected heavily persecution of them during the Holocaust.…

say, or vote, in the matter they looked for expanded suffrage. The liberal Jews participated in this fight in the hopes it would grant them equality civilly and politically with the rest of the groups fighting. Some Jews fought side by side with non-Jews but mostly it brought more hostility towards them. There was a large fear that the Jewish community, if they gained equality, would come to dominate the country. The Jews were associated with the bourgeoisie class that supposedly wanted to…

in America. During the middle 1800's, the Native Americans were viewed as "a savage and inferior race" by the white man, who would "invade, plunder and murder" any Indians who were troublesome (Irene ustrek) . This is exactly like what happened to the Jews. Hitler believed that the Germans were the inferior race and…

“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed” (Elie Wiesel). Since the time of the Holocaust, ghettos have been used to segregate minorities from the rest of society. They are unsanitary and dangerous areas, set up in the dregs of society. Modern ghettos are very similar to those that were established during the Holocaust, however they still have their…

Lucy Dawidowicz’s analysis has three goals to achieve. First, to create a coherent account of how National Socialism came about to killing 6 million Jews, this beginning with 19th-century ideological ideas on race and anti-Semitism. In answering her first question, Dawidowicz delves into political archives and asks, how did it become capable for a modern state to execute mass killings of individuals based solely on their religion. This aspect is crucial for my research, as Dawidowicz helps map…

poverty in America. The three greatest predictors of poverty in America stem from an individual’s race or ethnicity, education level, and gender. In regards to race-ethnicity, 12% of whites are poor, 13% of Asian Americans, 25% of Latinos, 26% of African Americans, and 27% of Native Americans. Although whites have the smallest percentage living in poverty, because it is such a dominant group, whites have the most individuals who identify as poor when compared with any other race. 46% of all…

The American writer, Daniel Goldhagen and his book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust supports the view that the German people also had a part in being responsible for the Holocaust along with Hitler himself. He argues that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were “willing executioners” in the Holocaust due to a “eliminationist anti-Semitism” in the German political culture which had developed in past centuries. In Hitler’s Willing Executioners Goldhagen argued…

of their time there. They then were forced to be evacuated to Gleiwitz, where they ran about 42 miles to reach their destination. They spent about 3 days at Gleiwitz and then they were transported to Buchenwald by train. There they are rescued by Americans and a resistance group that attacked the camp. Sadly Elie’s father died in Buchenwald before the rescue due to a sickness and being sent to the crematory. Dehumanization of the Jewish people in “Night” ,by Elie Wiesel, happened in a variety of…

a short introductory essay by Jill McCaffrey, who was born in Pennsylvania, and throughout her career has written about devastating periods in history like the Holocaust, Columbine, and Apollo 13. Her goal in writing these books is to educate the American people, and knowledge is power. The book chronicled Hitler’s life from him being…