possible by segregating the Jews and creating laws that robbed them from their basic human rights. The word “Ghettos” was used in the middle ages and meant: a segregated area away from a city where some are forced to live. The word and idea was revived by Hitler and his men. The Ghettos had many uses and each different from the other. One thing that remained the same was the injustices towards the Jews. Some Ghettos were used as holding grounds‚ for those who were soon
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‘volksgemeinschaft’ began to take effect on the Jewish community. Hitler aimed to achieve a society compromising of strong‚ healthy Aryans. In ‘Mein Kampf’‚ Hitler further developed the idea of the Jews as an evil race struggling for world domination. Hitler believed the Jewish race was vastly inferior. He blamed the Jews for every problem Germany faced and believed they were the cause of defeat in World War 1. In 1933 anti-Jewish action began from Hitler youth and SA activists ordered by Adolf himself
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their human qualities. The Germans threw the Jews into harsh concentration camps. They placed sanctions on their everyday ordinary lives. If the guards felt like a person was not worth anything‚ they would be sent to the gas chamber or an inferno. The Germans were a harsh army that desensitized the life of the Jewish. In the novel Night‚ translated by Marion Wiesel he describes how a life can be dehumanized at a split second. To begin with‚ The Jews of Sighet always felt inferior and less human
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The Night of the Broken Glass The Nazis killed over 11 million people‚ including 6 million Jews and 1.1 million children between 1930-1945. The Night of the Broken Glass took place on November 9‚ 1938‚ and gets its name from the glass that lay on the streets the next morning. On this night over 250 synagogues were burned‚ and over 7‚000 Jewish-owned businesses were destroyed. The Nazi’s blamed the start of The Night of the Broken Glass on the killing of a German ambassador in Paris.
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people of their basic rights and were a major catalyst to catapult the Nazi policies against Jews and the Final Solution of killing the Jewish people. The three main components of the Nuremberg Laws were German Jews stripped of citizenship‚ relations between Jews and non-Jews made illegal and Jews forbidden to work with non-Jews. This really began the major division and creation of the out-group of Jews. People could no longer go to the bakery they loved down the street or go to the doctor they’d
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The lives of the Jewish people changed tremendously as Hitler came to power. Before 1933‚ the Jews assimilated quite well into German society. They experienced some discrimination‚ but life in Germany was rather peaceful. As Hitler came to power‚ the Jews were held responsible for Germany’s problems. Due to his anti-semitic views‚ the lives of the German-Jews changed for the worse. When the Nuremberg Laws were enacted by Germany‚ Jewish influences were completely removed from Aryan society. These
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Imagine if you‚ were a jew during the Holocaust. How would you have felt? Probably pretty awful. Although you may not want to live during the Holocaust‚ there were many who did and they didn’t have the choice. The Holocaust involved many people including rescuers‚ children‚ and adults. As a rescuer during the Holocaust‚ they faced the threat of the death penalty if they were caught helping a jew. By hiding a jew‚ Polish people put themselves in great danger. This threat was also feared by and extended
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betrayed himself‚ his religion‚ customs‚ values‚ and even his father‚ if only in his own mind. Betrayal was a major aspect of life for Jews in the Holocaust‚ especially Elie. Elie felt betrayed by the Germans for treating Jews like they weren’t humans and taking away the Jew’s self-worth. Elie also felt betrayed by his own god‚ who allowed Elie and his fellow Jews to be treated the way they were by the Germans. Betrayal started the sequence of poor events in Elie’s life and affected him during the
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happened to the Jews and so we are prepared so the Holocaust never happens again. It’s important to give recognition to how cruelly the Jews were treated in the concentration camps by simply just being themselves‚ human. For example‚ in
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” Amon Göth’s cruelty to Jews in the movie‚ Schindler’s List is an example of human’s undeterminable mind. The morning when groups of Jews arrive to his work camp‚ Göth randomly starts shooting the Jews from his veranda. At first‚ the Jews thought they are now safe since they have survived the chaos in the city. Therefore‚ Göth shoots them to rise up the tension of the scene. His shots cause chaos at the camp and the view of the chaos from his veranda makes the Jews look more animal like and vulnerable
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