Between 1877 and 1920, white southerners were persistent about limiting the rights of African Americans by setting out objectives they soon wish to accomplish that demanded blacks to remain inferior throughout society. The Jim Crow era was characterized by legalized segregation, lynch mobs, and white supremacy which caused a dark oppressive period of American race relations from 1890 to 1910 (Campbell). The period which the states of Confederacy were controlled by the federal government and social legislation which granted African Americans new rights consisted of a time frame called the Reconstruction period. The Reconstruction period resulted as one of the main causes of why the Jim Crow era began rising throughout the nation. In 1865, the…
Did you know that 11 million people died in the holocaust? If this event didn’t happen, then many people’s lives today would be much different. The holocaust was a terrible thing. People were thrown in gas chambers just because of how they looked or what type of person they were. Jews were the main targets, because that’s what the leader insisted. Although many terrible things happened during the holocaust, there are still some people, still living today, that have escaped.…
Start of the Holocaust, 1933 one man, Robert Freund, 40 at the time was forced from his house with his daughter and wife by the Germans. Later on 2 months later Robert lost his business because of Nazis that were taking over where he lived and his job, as well as his children being forced out of their schools. As we can all tell this had changed his life forever as he lost his job and home. Things would only get worse from then on, Robert Freund would lose his family as the Germans had his family move near the train station on October 22, 1940. He would be getting on one of the many trains to carry people to concentration camps.…
We were stuffed into train crafts, over crowed without any space to sit. We had a bucket as a toilet for about 35 people. I felt the presence of evil from the begging, and even though I know were heading to Auschwitz I don't have any predictions for my future. As soon as we stepped off the train we were separated into two groups. To me the groups were workers and the other were the useless. I haven't seen my mother or baby sister nor my grandmother. Me and my father escaped and are once again in hiding. We tried locating our family but we cant find anyone from the other group, but have seen bodies being disposed and the crematoria. I haven't slept but I've cried, consistently. As well as my father were torn down we understand what is going and are hopeless. I know the year, 1943. But not the day nor month. Help? I don’t expect it, not after 4…
One fact that is most disturbing about the Holocaust is that they were forced to hide. People shouldn’t be treated like this and people shouldn’t treat other people like this. For example, in the Diary of Anne Frank the Franks and Van Daans and Dussel had to go into hiding because they would be forced to go to concentration camps. Their families would have been distributed and they would’ve not seen each other for years.…
The night when we had to move from Auschwitz we were once again put into cattle cars with no roof at all. I remember the snow falling hard as ever. A few hours into our journey and we’ve reached Poland. They stopped the cattle cars and went to the back. As I was concerned for a few minutes I then realized what they were doing.…
I look outside and see all Jewish businesses being burned down, or severely damaged. Not only are their businesses being destroyed they are being pulled out from their homes a lot of the times dragged out and beaten. The Nazi mobs were vicious towards them worse than ive seen before sometimes beating the Jews in the city by the hundreds. I have a choice to make, do I try and save my girlfriend and risk being caught or do I just give her up to them and never see her again. I can’t do that to her I need to find a place for her to hide a place they would never think to look here. The mob is almost to my house I have to think quickly or I will loose her to those monsters. I told her to go outback and under the stairs outside there’s an opening she would be safe there. I had no intention of telling Goebbels to see if he could help because he was the one that put in the newspaper to do this so all he would do is turn me in. as I started to calm door I hear a knock at my door but there was no shouting I open it and before my eyes was a family, a Jewish family that had escaped and asked for my help. I had to think but think quickly cause the mob was only down the street, so I told them to go where I had told my girlfriend to o and wait till I came and got them. The mob was finally at my door they asked if I had any Jews in here I said no. The people barged in and started to raid my home…
It was a Thursday morning in November. I woke up, got dressed and got ready to take a taxi to 42nd Street in Manhattan with my mother. I was so upset that I had to leave to upstate somewhere I had never been and the thought of living there? Lord knows I wanted to throw up so badly. When I got to 42nd Street I saw the guy that I had an interview with. He said, “Hello Nikki. Are you excited to go to Job Corps?” I lie and said yes. When it was time to leave I said goodbye to my mother and got on the bus.…
It was my job as the Hitler Youth. I had to go to the home of a family that had been killed and burn all the “un-german” books. It reminded me of the first time that I had seen a Nazi act of aggression. This is because they burnt a bonfire in the middle of the street for everyone to see. Burning books was a big celebration type thing where that nazi’s celebrated being stupid. Every one of the Nazis that were there were very happy to be there. But, the only reason the the Hitler Youth was there is…
So we went up and brought all of our important stuff up into the attic and stayed very quiet. We have to stay very quiet because our attic is right above another apartment. during the day we can move around a little bit and at night we can, not because there will probably be people down there that count rat us out. Then, once we heard the nazi police down there and did not know it was them and then we made a little bit of noise and all of a sudden we heard what is that. Then we heard this running up the attic stairs so we hid in the corner…
By the 1890s, the freedom that was given to slaves after the Civil War was abolished by the Jim Crow Laws. The Jim Crow Laws commenced around 1830 and were legalized in 1910 by every state apart of the former Confederacy. Signs and posters were placed to separate races from places of recreation, water fountains, hotels, restrooms, and modes of transportation during the Jim Crow era. The Jim Crow Laws were so highly enforced that over 3,000 victims were lynched during the time of 1889 and 1930. Violence towards blacks grew during the Jim Crow Era. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan, that reached over 6 million members, supported mob violence towards them.…
There were many ghettos that were filled with hundreds of thousands of jews in the biggest ghettos and their life was not easy. They had barely any food and most of them didn't have jobs. They sold their clothes for food. They were just trying to survive with basically nothing. In this paper i will tell you about what all the Jewish people had to go threw.…
My husband became super busy with work, Bruno is always outside exploring and most importantly Kotler left. I lost any attention I was getting. I am now once more in the pit of darkness. During my naps I reflected on my old life in comparison to the life at Auschwitz. I could endure the pain. The life at Auschwitz was intolerable.…
There have been times in my life where I have been lucky and ashamed at then same time. I know many people such as friends, family etc who have been lucky & and ashamed but some at the same time and some at different times. For example my friend Natalia and her Parents have been lucky people within the last few years. It was 2010 when they won the LOTTERY!! Now that’s what you call being lucky. But being lucky isn’t always about winning the lottery or having things other people don’t have and you enjoy having it. Being lucky is basically waking up thanking god he blessed you with another day!…
Although his story is very different from the original Holocaust experiences we tend to think about, it is unique in its own way. I feel as though you could feel some safety by not being in the concentration camps, but at the same time you had to work really hard and stay on top of your duties because you were doing it directly for a SS Officer, and if he felt you were not doing the job the way he wanted, he could just kill you right then and there. It would almost feel so overwhelming and stressful to do the manual duties for a SS. This man’s story is very straight forward and factual. The emotions he felt during this experience seem to be almost too strong to put down on paper. They may be too hard for him to explain. Arthur looks like such a nice man, to be honest. If I had the chance to sit down and meet with, I would definitely ask how he felt during these situations. I would ask him if he felt safer in the house of a SS Officer or more intimated, rather…