Mischling

Eva Ginzova, born February 21st of 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, kept a diary from June 24th, 1944 till May 14th, 1945 while she resided in the Terezin Ghetto. Despite the horrible, atrocious conditions of the ghetto, Eva was considered lucky because she was there for less than year and she was a child. Jewish children in the ghetto received protection from the elders who tried to shelter them from the ghetto and war as well as provide secret schooling. Eva was born to a mother who was raised Catholic but late declared herself atheist and a Jewish father and raised in a liberal, but traditional household ( ). Growing up, she kept kosher, attended synagogue on major holidays, celebrated mitzvahs and Christmases, and went to a progressive Jewish school. When laws similar to the Nuremberg Laws passed in June after Germany annexed Czechoslovakia in March of 1939, Eva was defined as a Mischlinge of the first degree because she was born in a mixed marriage but had two Jewish grandparents. So when the law passed in September of 1941, Eva, too, was forced to wear the yellow Star of David because she was raised Jewish. Her status as a Mischlinge eventually led her to be sent to live in a ghetto away from her parents. In May of 1944, Eva arrived in the Terezin ghetto travelling alone, taking what little possessions she could carry with her. Six weeks after her arrival, Eva starts her diary hopeful because “people said two months at most,” and she was excited to see her brother…

again to the street, now listening to some melancholic ballad by Bob Dylan... A heavy winter night, its millions of snowflakes of all sizes falling, embraced me, as I entered a teeming pub where I sat at the first available bench I found at the bar. I asked a pint of Buzz amber lager, which a young blond woman served me immediately. As I was having my first sip, a guy sitting with his back next to me turned around me and smiled at me, and as he did so I realized he was Hitler, who with a…

Also working against him was the fact that his mother was Protestant and his father was Jewish. As a mischling (“child of mixed blood”), he was despised by the Nationalsozialists. Although his homosexuality did not play a huge role in how he was treated by those around him during his adolescence, it made him a target for the Nazis, just as his religion did, despite only being a mischling. Beck realized he was different from those around him when he was not allowed to participate with his…

of 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws were established. The laws stripped Jews of their citizenship once again. Sexual liaisons among a Jewish person and a non-Jew were prohibited. If anyone chose to violate this law s/he would be sent to a concentration camp where death was probable ("Holocaust" World History). The laws did not delineate Jews by their personal religion or how they chose to distinguish themselves. Their identification was established by the religion with which their grandparents chose…

there are children who are of lighter skin tones and darker skin tones: the darker skinned children are called “Negroes,” and the lighter skinned children called, “mulattos.” Doering even claims that “most of the children of these colored people show in their skin color all.” Goering is interested in whether these children should or should not be considered German citizens. He observed that “without exception Mischlinge are counted with the native population.” For Doering-and for the Conial…

In 1935, all Jews were stripped of their citizenship and any other standard rights of German people (“Holocaust Timeline”). In 1933, Germany was home to around 525,000 Jews, or about one percent of Germany’s population. Nurenberg Law of 1935, stated that anyone with three or more Jewish grandparent was considered a Jew, Germans with two Jewish grandparents were considered, “Mischlings or half breeds.” Under this new law, Jews were ordinary subjects for stigmatization and persecution. From 1933…

legal system and giving the state police force, the Gestapo, the right to arrest and imprison anyone for any reason. Laws no longer protected the citizens” (Howes 107). Hitler and the Nazis took away the citizens’ civil rights and made the Gestapo a powerful police force in society. This section is also affirming that Hitler, and the Nazis, gained total power of Germany, eliminated the civil rights of their people, and gave the Gestapo carte blanche. To further prove this point, one of the first…