Ky’Asia Williams
Buchtel Community Learning Center
Word Count- 842
Anti-Jewish Laws; Crumbling Rights
~The years of 1933 to 1939 were filled with darkness and despair. Hatred and prejudice against Jews, and many other groups, has bothered our world for a very long time. As a great example, during times of the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a overwhelming tragedy that happened in the early 1940s after many years before being filled with preparation. This event will be remembered forever through those living today.
~It is well known, throughout the world as one of the largest genocides in history. Approximately six million Jews died by an extermination by the German Nazis leader Adolf Hitler in the …show more content…
The people who believe these things are called Holocaust Revisionists. This group of people may also known as deniers. Holocaust revisionists believe the Holocaust existed, they just disagree with the evidence supporting it despite the facts. The deniers suggest that witnesses who survived this drastic event lied about it and that they evidence left behind are fake. Types of evidence include, pictures, videos, documents, and remains. I think that the Holocaust revisionists are wrong. The facts and many different types of evidence supporting the Holocaust is very true or else it wouldn't be called facts.
~ Anti-Jewish laws were a large part of Germany in those significant years. Some examples of these laws include; no Jewish doctors, no Jewish citizens shall receive governmental services, no Jews could have certain occupations. The Star of David was found anywhere where Hitler ruled. Painted along streets and business windows was a common Anti-Jew slogan; “Kauf Nicht Bei Judan”. This slogan can be translated to “Don't buy from the Jews”. This slogan was reinforcement for the anti-Jewish law. Government rarely did anything in the instances when Jewish business owners were assisted and their property was …show more content…
An example of an annexed family is the family of Anne Frank. Anne Frank was a Jewish teen who lived during these times in small class-like room. She lived there with her family and later on a few other Jews that needed help. There was a total of eight people. Anne was given a diary on her thirteenth birthday. She used this diary to write the notes of her life and feelings. Years later, the population of the secret annex dwindled to less and less people. Anne was found and taken away with the others who were left on August 4th, 1944. Her father Otto Frank was the only person who survived the concentration camps from the annex. He later found and published Anne's diary and it is now a book which has been read by millions all around the