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    well as unjust human suffering. It had many effects on the path of world history, and can still be seen in today’s world. The immediate effects of the Holocaust includes the seven to nine million of displaced Jews. Several countries struggled to take in the extensive amount of homeless Jews. Following the Holocaust, Germany experienced financial complications as well as the destruction of social class, struggling cities and worldwide outrage (Harvard Gazette). The social class…

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    effect of anti-Semitism; which was one of the main reasons that the Holocaust was such a large genocide. Many Jews were afraid to leave their house during the period of the Holocaust. Anne Frank was a Jew whose family was impacted by the war. Although any example of genocide is very serious, the Holocaust is one of the largest known types of genocide, with approximately six million Jews killed. Holocaust is a Greek word with the meaning “sacrifice by fire.” The Holocaust era lasted from the…

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    million people died during the Holocaust, 6 million were Jews, and 1.1 million were children. During the later years of World War 2, Nazis started ordering all Jews to live within a certain area, called a ghetto. Some ghettos began as an “open” environment, which meant the Jewish residents could leave their homes, and community during the day but must come home before curfew. Later, they were forced to be “closed” ghettos, trapping the Jews inside the confined ghetto. The largest ghetto was…

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    The expression discrimination against Jews was authored in 1879 by Wilhelm Marr, a German political dissident who established the League of Anti-Semites to counter the impact of Jewish individuals in German culture. His scorn of Jews was established basically on racial, as opposed to religious, grounds. Today, discrimination against Jews portrays any individual who loathes the Jewish individuals and looks for their damage on the premise of their Jewish personality. It has taken the type of…

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    of it or not. In text one it is seen that people do seem to prefer living among others who resemble them. Alan Wood talks about discrimination between Gentiles and Jews, portrayed in a non violent manner. The literary device is shown best through his use of situational irony. In Alan Wood’s excerpt from “I sell my house”, he explains the segregation affecting Jews and the discrimination between Gentiles and Jews. For example, ”Of the thirty-two children invited, thirty were Jewish,” he said.…

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    The documentary we have been watching is “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.” The Third Reich is about the Germans, the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis who are in control and have the power of every other person who is not in the Nazi political party. The rise of the Third Reich was the high level of belief in Hitler. The Fall of the Third Reich was the lack of trust and confidence in Hitler because of his wrong doings. The Germans know they were going to lose WWI. The 1919 treaty…

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    that describe non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. This is because, resisting the Nazi movement during World War 2 was deemed as a capital offense; accordingly, people who helped Jews would have been incarcerated in camps and executed. However, Père Jacques, a French Roman Catholic priest, is an example of someone who audaciously went against the Nazi ideology, following his beliefs. When asked why he had disobeyed the laws against sheltering Jews, Jacques said, "I…

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    that if the Jews don’t share every detail and horror of the Holocaust would be unfair to current civilization. It’d be unfair because it’d give history a chance at repeating itself. The book NIght is written by Elie Wiesel, a Jew who survived the concentration camps during the Holocaust. He shares his story of being treated inhumanely. The jews had been dehumanized and Elie Wiesel uses that as a theme to his story to achieve not forgetting. In the book Elie along with the other Jews were…

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    Wertheimer claim contribute to the Jewish Community’s continuity challenge. Cohen and Wetheimer claim intermarriage, lowered birth rates, and decreased social interactions between Jews are responsible for decreasing involvement in Jewish activities and in the Jewish community. While a high number of people identify as Jews, few have a strong connection to the religion or culture, belong to any Jewish communities, or do many mitzvot or rituals. The authors also claim that non-Orthodox movements -…

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    Most Jews believe that the very righteous got to Gan Eden while the rest go to Gehinnom for spiritual cleansing . Rather than being a place of eternal punishment, a soul that goes through Gehinnom is stripped of the sin it committed in its life so it can experience…

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