Over six million Jews was killed during Holocaust which was really unbelievable tragedy for all of the Jewish people and according to Zvi Kopolovich said in the article, he thinks that he already took the revenge. “And so, within seven months, I lost my father, my brother, and my mother. I am the only one who survived. This is what the Germans did to us, and these are things that should never be forgotten. On the other hand, we had our revenge: the survivors were able to raise magnificent families – among them myself. This is the revenge and the consolation.” Also, because the outbreak of an aggressive and anti-Semitic nationalism that made racial and social claims and which saw the Jewish as a dangerous race. Therefore after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany this situation of racial anti-Semitism became worse than before. He started separated all the Jewish people from society. Which according to Walter Zwi Bacharach who is Professor Emeritus of General History at Bar-llan University, he said “That was the heart of the problem of German Jewry: it was so much a part of German society that the Nazi blow hit if from within. It didn’t come from without, as far the Polish Jews, who were occupied. No one occupied…
In the short time frame of about 6 years around 6 million Jews were murdered in a horrible event called the holocaust. The holocaust was an event lead by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party from 1933 to 1945. It is the reason for the mass genocide of European Jews and many other European people. The Nazis targeted the Jews, Russians, Catholics, Communists, and many other European places because they believed that only people of pure European blood should live and the Jews were the cause of the Great…
Over the course of six years, from 1933 to 1938, countless number of innocent Jews were heavily subjected to extreme degrees of discrimination by the anti-Semitic Nazis. Although, there were many different methods that Nazis used to persecute Jewish people, some methods were more effective than others and thus were utilized more extensively. This essay will focus on the psychological, political and physical persecutions from the events of rise of Nazism, Nazi propaganda, Nuremberg Laws and, finally, Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass). To begin, Nazis politically persecuted Jews after the rise of the Nazi Party.…
Anti-Semitism was felt in many other extreme forms in the Middle Ages. From the ecclesiastical and secular aspects of society Jews suffered violence and general mistreatment. Intense Jewish suffering began in France and Rhineland, where entire communities were killed, and synagogues were burned while Jews were inside singing songs. Jews suspected of crimes for which they were usually innocent resorted to suicide, instead of being found guilty and killed. Life was so horrible, married couples killed each other, and mothers killed their children. Jews felt the pressure of anti-Semitism and its toll was abundant. There was a magnitude of conscious suffering by Jewish martyrs that is only comparable to the suffering experienced during Nazi Germany.…
World War II was a terrible time for the Jews. Close to six million Jews died over the course of the War in Europe. This meant America had the largest Jewish population in the world. After the events of World War II, Jews didn’t know where to turn to; the once great sanctions of Judaism were in need of guidence with no one to lead them except for the dominant reform judaism in the United States and eventually Israel with the more conservative view on Judaism. While rebuilding Judaism in post-World War II America was widely accepted by most Northern Americans, the South however did not accept Jews because of their determination to end Jim Crow laws. The South grew more anti-semitic as the Jewish community fought for equal rights for all. In…
The Holocaust was one of the world’s greatest tragedies that was made possible by hatred, widespread anti-Semitism, and outright discrimination. It was the state-sponsored murder of six million Jews by Hitler and the Nazi party. In 1933, the Nazis came to power in Germany and they believed Jews were an inferior race, a threat to the superior Aryan community. Hitler also targeted other groups such as homosexuals, Gypsies, Poles, and the disabled because of their racial inferiority.…
The hatred towards Jews has existed since the beginning of it’s religion, but the four main reasons that have been helping its growth explain why anti-Semitism, is still among us. First, this hate has been around us from along time, and it has been universal, this is one of the main causes of the constant migration that supported this. The other two reasons, is the intensity in which people and rulers have put into this hate and the confusion and ignorance between people of why they hate Jews.…
A foundational part of being Jewish is to struggle. Throughout history, the Jewish people have struggled both physically - with the hardships that they had to face – and intellectually - with what is called a cognitive dissonance. In fact, one of the earliest struggles can be traced back to the prophet Jacob, who had to struggle with God himself. By writing this paper, I wish to explain why ‘to struggle’ is such a foundational part in the Jewish tradition through the story of ‘Jacob’s wrestling with God’ and two other examples which are the story of ‘King David and Bathsheba’ and ‘Abraham and Sarah’.…
Many Jews at the time wanted to go about things in a legal manner, but Perl saw the speed of events happening, and acted against the establishment to get people out of their countries before a legal decision was made. He also took a stand against the Nazi’s, opposing their power over the Jews by not allowing them to take and kill Jews without a fight. Perl had a large impact on 40,000 thousand lives, through giving them the opportunity to survive a dangerous time. In history, Perl impacted the death rates of the Holocaust, and the success of Adolf’s campaign. Perl’s stand against the Nazi’s and the Jewish establishment was significant to many and to history…
The first areas that we look at that were prevalent and were used to lay the foundation during the holocaust were those of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism. Racism can be defined as a “prejudice and discrimination on a basis of race”, and prejudice can be defined as an “attitude or prejudging, usually in a negative way” (Henslin, J., 2014). Finally anti-Semitism is a “prejudice, discrimination, and persecution directed against the Jews” (Henslin, J., 2014). The leaders of the Nazi party used all of these elements (racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism) in the 1930’s to come to power by uniting the German people in a common cause and that was to purge Germany and ultimately the world of what was keeping Germany from being great and that was seen as the Jewish…
Some said they were too powerful, some said they were too different. Words like ‘inferior’, ‘outsiders’, and ‘scapegoat’ were their labels. Those not afraid of them would ask: Did you actually cause the Black Plague? What about the spread of AIDS in Europe? Did you kill Jesus Christ? Regardless of how peacefully they walked down the street, people would cross to the opposite side. Ever since the first recordings of Judaism in 1400 BCE, the Jewish people have been persecuted as a religion, and even as a race, but the largest case of this discrimination was certainly the Holocaust. In the case of the Holocaust, or World War II, which took place in the 1930’s and 40’s, the Jewish people were being blamed for causing the first Great War, or World War I. During this time, it seemed like all fingers pointed to the Jews; they had no where to turn but to other Jews. The average person closed their door when a Jew knocked. Not only hatred, but fear of association caused the public to turn their backs on this constantly bullied group of people. With the masses on standby, the President of Germany at the time, Adolf Hitler, led the Nazi Party to kill an estimated 6 million Jewish men, women, and children. “The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust…” quotes former Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon. The only people who stood up for the Jews were their fellow Jews. The Holocaust was undoubtedly the largest slaughter of Jewish people in history, but the question is, if they had no one to help them, how did any Jews get out alive? Well, as few as “195,000 survivors and family members” lived through the Holocaust, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (“Frequently Asked Questions.”). Only a portion of these survivors were Jewish, and out of those Jews, very few shared…
The Holocaust was the country that sponsored mass murders for of over six million Jews by the Nazi government during World War II. It was the culmination of close to a decade of official discrimination, racial segregation, and brutal violence against the Jewish residential district in Germany. Under the shield of the war, the Nazis turned to systematic genocide after 1941, setting up industrial-style “extermination camps” planning to execute the detained Jewish population of Germany and Europe. While other groups targeted for extinction by the Nazi state, including gypsies, gays and communists, anti-Semitism was a fundamental tenet of Nazi ideology. In fact, Hitler believed until the end that the “war against the Jews” was a more important goal than victory in the conventional military battles of World War II. The Holocaust is today known as one of the worst mass crimes in human history.…
Catholic and Judaism are considered opposite religions, yet they share very similar rituals and ceremonies. A Catholic child typically around twelve or thirteen years old goes through their confirmation. This is a ceremony where the young adult promises to follow with the religion and continue to learn about the faith. In the Jewish faith when a girl is twelve and a boy is thirteen they celebrate their Bah Mitzvah if they are a girl or Bar Mitzvah if they are a boy. This ceremony is also when the young adult promises to follow their religion and stay close to and learn more about their faith.…
The first time I know about Jewish was from the history class. At that time, my Chinese teacher told me that Jewish were persecuted by Nazis during the Second World War, and the reason is because the ruler of Nazi-Hitler hated Jewish. From the video and books, there are many pictures about how Nazi persecuted Jewish such as the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. However, there always is a mystery puzzled me, why were Jewish persecuted by Nazi? From the videos which are talking about the Second World War, they are only saying that Jewish are innocent. Nevertheless, there is an old Chinese saying goes, ’ A person’s poor situation can always attribute to his own fault.’ From my opinion, this sentence is also effective on Jewish. There must be some…
As recent as 60 years ago, a vast amount of people were isolated and treated cruelly because of their beliefs and appearance. This time was known as the Holocaust, and the hatred was heavily focused toward the Jewish community. Hitler and his army persecuted those whose views differed from his own. It is clear that they made this possible by segregating the Jews and creating laws that robbed them from their basic human rights.…