British Jews

If you were transported to live somewhere else away from your family how would you feel? After Adolph Hitler became Germany's leader, he blamed the Jews for the war that the Germany didn't win. Many Jewish parents were worried about their children because they could’t go out in public because a lot of German people hated them and treated curule for what they believed. People in Britain and other European countries responded by helping taking in their children to a safe place where it would be…

50,000 people died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from poor sanitary conditions, lack of food, shelter and water, and an outbreak of diseases. The concentration camps held Jews, Poles, Soviets, Dutch, Czechs, Germans, and Australians. All the information in this article is from “I saw Anne Frank die” by Irma Sonnenberg, and “Bergen-Belsen” from the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Bergen-Belsen was a death camp, because of the terrible living conditions and the many diseases. It wasn’t and…

liable to be charged for the accessory of the murders of over 300, 000 people, most of the Jews. Many say that his court case was different from other like him because he was not a guard…

Holocaust was the genocide and extermination of people who shared the Jewish culture. They slaughtered men, women, and even children. The man mostly in charge of this act was the name of Adolf Hitler. The Jewish people, or as Hitler called them, “Jews”, were taken to concentration camps all over the world. But, the biggest concentration camp was Auschwitz in Poland. There were many unknown survivors, and known survivors. Knowing that a lot of people have died for being someone that they…

“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” (Elie Wiesel) What this quote is trying to show is that people should not forget the terrible times when the Jews lived in those horribles concentration camps. Although the concentration camps were terrible, that has happened in other parts of the world, in a similar manner as the Jews. The Moriori tribe was in a terrible situation of being almost killed by enemies and some other people living around the same place. (Te Ara Encyclopedia…

the extreme, power can lead to corruption within individuals and society and can be demonstrated in scientific experiments, books, history and film. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Said Lord Acton, a 19th-century British historian. Now, after a century of Acton’s accusation, it has been proven scientifically. Professor John Antonakis from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland,…

The Day The Jews Were Saved They were lost. They were scared. They had lost all hope for themselves. But little did they know the worst yet to come. Over eight million lives had been taken and only one third of the eight million survived the wretched twelve years of their imprisonment. The liberation of the concentration camps was soon to come. If you told the prisoners they were to be saved in a few days, they probably wouldn’t believe you. They had given up. They were drained of their strength…

In his article, “Jews and the Courts in Weimar Germany,” Donald Niewyk describes the court system in Weimar Germany, citing several legal cases against both anti-Semites and Jews. In Weimar Germany, it is clear that democratic principles clouded the perspectives of those prosecuting anti-Semites to the full extent of the law. Niewyk states “The most…

Einstein’s Travels and Immigration to the USA After his first visit, Einstein traveled to U.S. for the second time in 1930 December. This time, he didn't give any speech or accept awards instead of that, he worked in Caltech as a fellow scientist. During his second visit in New York City, he enjoyed the life in America of visiting Chinatown and watching Carmen at the Opera. He met with famous Nobel awarded scientist Millikan in Caltech and Charlie Chaplin in the Universal Studios. Immigrants…

systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of derived from Greek meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were racially superior and that the Jews, deemed inferior, were an infectious and parasitic threat to the so-called German racial community. Killed along with Jews, were other groups because of their perceived "racial…