New antisemitism

For over a thousand years before the Holocaust erupted throughout Europe, hatred for the Jewish community had been building. The Jewish community had been under attack for many different reasons, most of which were rumors and false accusations that haunted the Jewish faith for years. When mentioning hatred for the Jewish community one man comes in mind. This man is known as Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialists German Workers Party, whose goal was to annihilate the people of the…

The Holocaust The Holocaust was the mass murdering of Jews, politicians, prisoners of war, and social minorities by Adolf Hitler’s idea called the “Final Solution”, which was the idea of the Jew’s extinction (The Holocaust). The Holocaust mainly took place in Middle Europe,because the majority of Concentration and Death camps were in Poland and Germany (Blohm 6).The people that were involved in the Holocaust were mainly Jews and the Nazis, but there were others who played roles such as the…

For many years, people have suffered from war since ancient times. One of them was the World War II, Jews suffered unfairness from the Nazis and being believed that they were the reason of the problems in Germany. There are non-fictional books that talk about World War II, one of them is “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank. She talks about how she suffered during the war with her family during their hiding. Also, fictional books about war have been published, one of them is “Mockingjay” by…

Human life transcends nearly all. If a Jew is held hostage and ransom is demanded, our rabbis permit us to sell holy objects, even a Torah scroll or a synagogue, in order to redeem the prisoner. The Rambam, Rabbi Moshe son of Maimon, writes, “There is no greater commandment than that of redeeming the prisoners…as they stand in danger of their lives, and one who turns his eye away transgresses the biblical command of ‘Do not stand idly by when your fellow man is in danger’ (Leviticus 19:16), and…

The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, takes readers back to a dark period in our world. Where tragedy fell upon countless Jewish individuals in the heart wrenching events of the Holocaust. The world was, and still is left struggling to find answers that can justify the means of this event in history. During the course of the reading, Elie undergoes rises and downfalls in his once strong belief in God. He wonders, along with the rest of the world, how a good God can see such wickedness and leave it be…

The Immortal Jew In his essay titled Concerning the Jews, Mark Twain wrote: "If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one-quarter of one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk.”1 The Jewish…

Holocaust denial The Holocaust was a genocide in which six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime, controlled by Adolf Hitler and its collaborators; the killings took place through Nazi Germany and German occupied territories. Between 1941 and 1945, Jews were targeted and murdered by the Nazi regime. The Holocaust was divided in various parts; first they passed laws to exclude Jews from civil society, later they started to group them into neighborhoods called ghettos, which were extremely…

different and alike in many ways, but after analyzing both, the movie is much more preferred. The story of Anne Frank. (Based on The Diary of Anne Frank movie) Anne was a young normal teen when her life changed forever. The Frank family had heard news of Hitler so they had been planning on going into hiding. One day Margot ( Anne’s sister who had just turned 16) got a summons to be deported. When her parents got this they decided to go into hiding sooner than planned before the Nazi’s came for…

A fiery grave, an unexplainable death, and the bystanders, that could only mean one horrific event, The Holocaust. The author of Night, Elie Wiesel was a teenager during the Holocaust. He and his family were taken into concentration camps. The book Night is the story of his time a little before when he was taken, to the very end of he’s stay in the concentration camps. Years later after the Holocaust and punishing Night Wiesel made a speech in 1999 at the White House. He gave this speech in…

In the autobiography The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal, Simon, who’s the main character went through much heartache and confusion; throughout being separated from his family to being put into concentration/work camps. Simon witnessed many people brutally slaughtered, including close friends. While working one day on the line a nurse pulled Simon aside and took him to a school building that had been turned into a hospital. There he saw a man whose face was completely wrapped in bandages. This…