Who is a Jew?

survivors of the Holocaust are absolutely frightening from even the beginning of the persecution of the Jewish people. As the Jews were made to give up their belongings, Frima L described how the Gestapo's hit her mother with a rifle because she did not take her earrings out fast enough and how a Ukranian neighborhood laughed at the undressed Jews parading in the city. This was not even 80 years ago and apparently people genuinely enjoyed dehumanization upon a specific group…

say, or vote, in the matter they looked for expanded suffrage. The liberal Jews participated in this fight in the hopes it would grant them equality civilly and politically with the rest of the groups fighting. Some Jews fought side by side with non-Jews but mostly it brought more hostility towards them. There was a large fear that the Jewish community, if they gained equality, would come to dominate the country. The Jews were associated with the bourgeoisie class that supposedly wanted to…

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…

Auschwitz -Birkenau extermination camp. Lodz was located in Germany and occupied by the Poland's. There were a total of 68,000 Jews that passed through Lodz. Out of the 68,000 people only 877 survived. Diseases were a major problem. Medical supplies were also very limited and Lodz was very packed. In January of 1942 10,000 Jews were sent to Chelmno extermination camp. In Chelmno the Jews were killed. They were killed with exhaust fumes. Next, In September 1942 parents had to give up their…

⅓ of all of the Mobile Killing Units deaths, which in turn proved it causimg significant change during the Holocaust. “For the nazis, shooting so many people became hard for them so they invented the Gas Van,”(Stille 37). “The SS men would herd the jews on a truck and gas them,”(Stille 38). After the “Gas Van” started to become less and less effective they discontinued the use of it. So, then after this, the Germans just went back to shooting large groups of people or taking them to…

Schindler’s List, a true story about the Holocaust and one specific Nazi who protected his Jewish workers, represents life in Europe from 1939 to 1946 from a German point of view. Beginning with hiring Jews merely because it was cheaper, Oskar Schindler ended with hiring them in order to protect them from the concentration camps where the vast majority would find death. Over time, he realized that what was occurring was terribly evil and had experienced a change of heart. Now known as…

The film The Believer, is a film about Danny Balint who is a Jewish boy that becomes a neo-Nazi. He grows up to be an angry, violent guy, attacking Judaism and Jews. Throughout the film, the paradoxical anti-Semitic view of Jewish self-hatred can be seen but along with this, viewers see that as much as Danny hates Jews and Judaism, he cares about the traditions as well. Although Danny kills himself, thus ending the protagonist, the ending of the film is inconclusive. One could argue that Danny…

normal day, but they do not realize that this is what some of the Jews experienced before the Holocaust. The daily lives for Jews in the Holocaust were something far from normal. Men, women and children from all ages and backgrounds were taken from their homes. They were forced to experience inhumane activities that made them feel like they were less than a human being. The daily life in the concentration camps was designed to make the Jews…

as being label onto the Jews. the Christian Anti Semitism hated the jews and wanted them to become christian. In a way that the two groups had similarities is that it didn't matter if you were a Jew, Christian, Muslim, etc someone hated you and had issues with you. Why most people hated the Jews was because they were Monotheistic belief in one god. While other religions where polytheist, who believe in more than one god. B) Assess the respective dangers posed to the Jews of Europe by the…

survivors who wished they could forget. The crimes that took place during the Holocaust showed humanity’s darkest side. People were tortured and killed. Those who survived are forever scarred by their memories. Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, writes about his ordeal in his memoir, Night. For some prisoners, the brutality that the Nazis treat them with leads to their deaths. For others, it morphs them into the animals they are believed to be. The Nazis’ inhuman plan to exterminate the Jews…