American Jews

The tragedy known as the Holocaust was the systematic murder of 6 million Jews (Strahinich 7). However, not only Jews were ruthlessly murdered by the Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ Party, or the Nazi Party. Approximately 5 million gypsies, handicapped people, Soviets, homosexuals, Slavs, and anyone deemed sub-human by the Nazi regime also perished in the Holocaust (Strahinich 8). The Holocaust took place mainly in Germany and its annexed countries like Poland, but it was present in…

Einsatzgruppen murdered an estimated 1.5 million Jews in large-and small-scale operations. Einsatzgruppen was mostly made up of the SS and volunteered German policeman. Among their ranks were both conscripts and volunteers. Each division was comprised of several companies or platoons and contained between 700 and 1,000 men. The Einsatzgruppen divided into four battalion sized groups A,B,C,D.“ Einsatzgruppen came directly to the home communities of Jews and massacred them”(United States Holocaust…

The Sultanate rule is known for the destruction of hundreds of Hindu temples across northern and central India. The rulers persecuted Hindus and promoted the forced conversion of the local population to Islam. This period saw the establishment of a Hindu Kingdom, Vijayanagar Empire, in south India in 1336 by two Hindu brothers, Harihar and Bukka. It was an attempt to protect the Hindu culture from the invading Muslim armies from north India. In 1398, the Delhi Sultanate was invaded by Timur the…

After Nazi Germany invaded Lithuanian the situations for the Lithuanian Jews got worse. A panic grew within the Jewish community. Many Jewish men fled right because of the concern about their fate (Tory, Gilbert, Porat, & Michalowicz, 1990, p. 5). The Lithuanian Jews suddenly had no rights and were now considered a lower class. Soon the Jews had vanished from the streets and the city. “They fear that death lies in wait for them around every corner.” (Tory, et al., 1990, p.7). No one could have…

horrific time to be alive. Jews were being distinguished by a major military organization known as the Schutzstaffel. Adolf Hitler and his men were separating Jewish families from each other by assassinating them and stealing the wealth they accumulated. But no one would soon believe that a survivor would have the abilities and the strength to publish and write such a memorable book that would soon inform the world about the Holocaust. Night, a novel produced by a first hand Jew named Eliezer…

1) Journal of the Jews 2) Model of the ‘Before’ and ‘After’ effect of the uprising in Warsaw Ghetto 3) Food the Jews ate during (1942-1943) 4) Armband of a jewish person/ID card 1) The journals the Jews wrote into and the food given to them by the Nazis would soon be an example in the future as to what horrible things the Nazi did to the Jews, being a lesson as to what humans should not do in generations to come. 2) Before races and ethnic groups despised one another and certain groups were…

About 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. The book Night written by Elie Wiesel is his account of what occurred to him and the others around him during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the worst genocide in the world because the Nazis killed people of any age, the concentration camps had the worst possible conditions, and the Nazis treated the prisoners like animals. One reason the Holocaust was the worst genocide in the world is the Nazis killed people of any age. One piece of…

persecution. Anti-Jewish pogroms were used in Russia when the government forced Jews to live in ghettos and if they wanted to leave the ghetto they had to convert to Christianity. Once the situation ended the word wasn’t used again until 1933. The next time the world was used, probably one of the times it was used the most in history, and the next time was 1933 during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the mass murder of six million Jews during the 1900s. The word Pogroms gained use to refer to…

Holocaust of the Jewish people in Eastern Europe during World War II under Hitler’s Third Reich is one of the most well documented horrors of the 20th century. The extermination of six millions Jews shocked and disgusted the world. However anti-Semitism, the prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as an ethnic, religious, or racial group, was not something birthed in the twentieth century with the rise of Hitler. World War II did not invent anti-Semitism, the historical…

Jews were targeted with aggressive actions and given no mercy if they had done something foul. They were treated poorly without restraint during the Holocaust and some groups are still against them for what they believe in. Vladek and his family had to…