Jewish People Genocide

Genocide of the Jewish People In 1939, WWⅡbegins when Adolf Hitler invaded Poland, causing six million Jewish people to fear for their lives. This fear began when all citizens had to complete a Census about their race, religion,and ancestry. Second, all people had to carry ID cards, and the Jewish people had to wear the Star of David. Third, Germany passed the Nuremberg Race laws, which took away all Jewish rights, even to the point where they were sent to ghettos. Fourth, the Jewish people were taken to concentration camps to be killed in. The effect that the Holocaust had on people who lived through it had been fear among people and their family that had been killed during this time.
The Holocaust affected thousands of people by creating a sense fear due to the creation of the Jewish people. In “The Gestapo is Born,” the author informs us about
People who weren't Jewish had trashed, destroyed, and vandalized Jewish business or houses. In “Parallel Journeys,” the author, Eleanor Ayer, writes, “On direct orders from Heydrich, Jewish homes and businesses were destroyed and synagogues burned. “Demonstrations,” the SS called the violence, and they informed police that they were to so nothing to stop them (paragraph 7,pg.2).” This quote explains that even when people were destroying the Jewish lives, the Jews had nobody to turn to. The police that were there to protect, didnt do anything to help or defend the Jewish people from the SS soldiers or Nazis. The Jews were terrorized on that night because of the anger of the Germans by the assassination of the German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager. The condition of the Jewish people had worsened from then on. More and more Jews had been shipped to the concentration camps or ghettos. Some Jews had stayed and hidden in their homes with their families and hoped for the