Antisemitism

How many Jehovah’s Witnesses were killed in the Holocaust? The Jewish Virtual Library says 2,500-5000. Purpose: The author's purpose for the article was to inform the reader of the plight of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust. The intended audience is anyone who wants to know more about the Persecution of Jehovah’s witnesses. The Article’s premise is the Jehovah’s Witnesses were persecuted by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The author reaches the conclusion the Jehovah’s Witnesses were…

Throughout the book, Elie was always curious why nobody said anything about the whole situation of kicking the Jews into concentration camps. There were many predictions on why the townspeople remained complacent. Of course, this far in time, there is no longer a correct answer. Townspeople may have remained complacent for multiple reasons. One reason may be that they were scared of Hitler. The townspeople may have feared Hitler, and didn’t want to go to a concentration camp just like the less…

Simon Wiesenthal’s memoir, The Sunflower, told the story of Simon when he was trapped in a concentration camp. During his time in the camp, he was told to make a decision of forgiving a SS officer. An officer who Wiesenthal was contributing to his daily torture. Instead of verbally saying he forgave Karl, Simon implied his forgiveness by staying silent. I agree with Wiesenthal’s actions because I have relatable instances from my life that make it understandable. Such as, my parent’s divorce and…

Peter Gay states he does not believe he is a ”survivor” of the Holocaust because his family fled Berlin before they could be subjected to the horrors of the concentration camps. While he did live in a Nazi controlled Berlin for six years he writes that his family was never individually persecuted during this time. Gay and his family were in the minority of refugees who had a successful journey out of Germany and to a safe place, in his case, America. He does not write his book like he is…

Problems of socio-economic class in Boyne’s novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Hitler’s regime in Nazi Germany caused a major issue of socio-economic class and a great divide between the Germans and the Jews. In John Boyne’s novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, these issues are illustrated through the eye of a Nazi Soldier’s family who have to move to Poland after the soldier becomes commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. In a place where the soldier’s son whose name is Bruno comes…

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…

The 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…

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…

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…

The article “The exodus from Russia” focuses on the migration of Jewish people to America and the way they lived their life. Before their migration, they were seen as an odd group of people in Russia. Even the government planned on creating violence against the Jews. They were prohibited from owning land. The Russians killed many Jewish people thereby destroying their shops and other businesses. They were forced to leave. During World War I, some Jewish people migrated to America. They expected…