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    should ask, what big part of those people who died are? Well, that large group of people was jews, people with disabilities and homosexuals. Back in those days were the World War II was going to start, Adolf Hitler (the person most known as a dictator with vitriolic), decide to start getting all the jewels and sending them to concentration camps, he had a large group of troopers who were in charge of sending jews to concentration camps. All this start because of a law made it by Germans in…

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    Adolf Hitler’s childhood and young adult years had a sequence of unfortunate events that led him to develop a hatred for the Jews. On April 20, 1889, Adolf was brought into the world by his mother, Klara, and his father, Alois, near the German border in Braunau, Austria (Mishra). Alois, despite his rejection in society due to his illegitimate birth and underprivileged beginnings, worked his way up to an acceptable position in society from exceptionally poor beginnings (Weinberg). Klara was an…

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    Why Do People Hate Jews?

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    Throughout history, Jews have been the aim of prejudice and hatred, which has resulted in Jewish discrimination, persecution, and expulsion from various lands. I always use to think about what it was about Jews that made people hate them throughout history. They were God’s chosen people, but it seems they had the worst luck ever. Do you believe the Jews may have acted in a manner that made other countries in which they resided turn against them or could it be they were just unfortunate,…

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    How Did Hitler Kill Jews

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    Jews were killed in many different ways at the concentration camp Auschwitz. Auschwitz was known as the most terrible and horrific camp there was. Most of the Jews or people in these concentration camps died horribly. They were also making up new ways to kill these people. The concentration camp Auschwitz changed how Hitler dealt with the Jews because he wanted them to suffer while being separated from everyone else. and once they arrived at the concentration camps they got killed. The…

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    Throughout years in history, the Jewish people were always alive and strong even though many people tried to suppress them. The Gift of the Jews, a bestselling book written by Thomas Cahill went all the way back to the origins of the Jewish people and why they are important today. The book was a delight and interesting read, from learning about Avraham and his sons to different scriptures. I grew up in a moderately Jewish household. We kept kosher, or tried to at least, have Shabbat dinner, and…

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    targeted in Germany was the Jews. Hitler blamed Jews for Germany’s defeat in the first war. The persecution started in 1933 by banning Jews from certain professions and would occasionally boycott their shops. By 1935 the Nuremberg Laws were put in place, making Jews second class citizens and prevented them from marrying Non-Jews. They lost the right to vote and had to use only yellow painted seats on the bus. In 1938 Crystal Night happened after a nazi was Murdered by a Jew in Paris; Jewish…

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    who they are, like their eye color or religion, now imagine all of those things being the reason for their persecution and inevitable death. This was the terrifying reality for German Jews in the 1940’s. No matter how hard we try to put ourselves in their shoes you will never know the pain and suffering that these Jews underwent. However, we can always learn about the events that lead to these dreadful events. Germany, suffering the defeat of WWI, signed the Treaty of Versailles losing all of…

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    When defining what an ideal Jew is, many factors can be considered, such as religious observance, relationship to Jewish culture, relationship to Israel and the Hebrew language, and connection to God. My ideal Jew is someone who really supports the community aspect of Judaism, and encouraging others within the community to participate in Jewish culture. An ideal Jew also incorporates certain Jewish values into their lives and allows them to govern their behavior and uses them to improve their…

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    a significant event where the Nazi’s present a genocide of 6 million Jews. The mass murder was motivated by the influence of strong anti-Semitic traditions in Europe, and Germany's ethnocentrism over the Jews who were seen as a threat to German racial community. However, this was an effective strategy for Adolf Hitler to rise to power and become an admirable leader in Germany. Aside from Hitler’s decision to destruct the Jews, he also desired to exterminate the Gypsies, Poles, Slavs, the sick,…

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    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…

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