...It seems that the times of Holocaust are already very far away from the point we are standing now, but everything is not as simple as it seems from the first sight. For many people this time will be something they will never forget, the time of struggle for an opportunity to survive. It was a time for fighting for the right to live, the time when Jews were killed just for “being Jews”, a time when a man with a “yellow star” was doomed. It took place in 1939-1945 and was introduced by Adolph Hitler, a man whose idea was to decontaminate the German race from all the minorities. Thousands of Jews were sent to concentration camps, killed or vanished. It was the time of “monopoly on violence”(Torpey, 1997) towards the Jews. This World War II period made an enormous impact on the direction that was taken by the social relations between Jews and other nations. Holocaust divided the lives of Jews into three periods: before, during and after it, which showed how hard was its hit.”…Cats have nine lives, but we - we're less than cats, we got three. The life before, the life during, the life after…"(Joselit, 1995 p.1) Jew people lost loved ones; homes, lives and it took them quiet a time to renew the curative power of their belief. The other main thing resulting from the Holocaust was the influence it had on future terrorism and the appearance of pure racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination. Holocaust the terrorists showed that the “big” goals could be achieved through any possible ways...
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...Anti-Semitism in Modern Times I. Throughout history, Jews have been accused for most of the world's problems. This created a regular pattern of hostility directed toward Judaism. Over time, this hatred received the name anti-Semitism. It originated when Christianity was created. Christians blamed Jews for Jesus' suffering. The establishment of Israel as a nation allowed anti-Semites, people who express anti-Semitism, to direct it toward a particular nation. Anti- Semitism evolved over the years, becoming more violent and more obvious. After the Holocaust, anti-Semitism steadily decreased, however, during 2015-2016 anti-Semitism rapidly increased. Since the Holocaust, anti-Semitism has increased rapidly through physical destruction, personal attacks, and...
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...Ordinary lives during the Holocaust are more likely to conform than prevent the killing when the government exposed them to an extreme level of anti-Semitism. Holocaust was the mass murder of six million European Jews by the Nazis during World War II. Hitler believes that the Aryan race is superior, and he wants to exterminate the Jews to create his perfect society. The Jews are forced out into their homes and they are transferred to death camps. The Jews are forced to do hard labor, starve to death, and groups are killed by poison gas. Hitler wanted to turn the Aryans against the Jews and show them that the Jews will never be as equal as them. Author Daniel Goldhagen argues, “Instead of claiming peer pressure or conformity, he argues that...
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...According to The United States Holocaust Museum Memorial, the Holocaust was the systematic, state sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by Nazi regimes and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community (ushmm.org). To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps for Jews during the war years” (ushmm.org). Nazis deported more than a million...
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...Holocaust Socratic Discussion Final Reflection How does your reading (and memoir) connect to the other readings you learned about in your seminar? All the reading s that we received symbolized in word the different events that lead up to the mass genocide, otherwise known as the Holocaust. The first excerpt was about the events that occurred after World War one. There was a huge economic decline in Germany because of the inflation, debt, and the Great depression as well. The population of Germany was angry at the government, and Hitler took advantage of their anger by directing a t the Jews. The first excerpt once again enforced whatever segregative feelings the average Ayran had against the average Jew with the introduction...
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...Anti-Semitism and Racism 1 Schrita Scott Anti- Semitism and Racism in America PHI 103: Informal Logic Ashford University July 8, 2013 Anti-Semitism and Racism 2 Anti- Semitism and Racism in America Racism is one of the world’s major issues today. Many people may not be aware that racism still exists today. Within our schools, workplaces, in the public, and anywhere social lives are occurring racism is evident. It is sad but racism is still a major problem in the United States of America. Anti- Semitism is another form of racism which Is the intense dislike and prejudice against Jewish people. It wasn’t until the years of 1865-1900 that an anti-Semitic society emerged. From the end of the civil war to the beginning of the twentieth century did the United States saw the full fledge dislike for Jewish people. People in the United States apparently was intent on that Jews impinged on American lives. (Pinnerstein, 1995, pg. 35). People in America assumed that Jews were Christ killers and would not accept the Truthfulness of Christian...
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...1) ‘The teachings of Rubenstein on post-Holocaust theology are more convincing than of Fackenheim.’ The Holocaust can be considered the greatest tragedy of human history, it included the cold blooded extermination of 6million Jews, and millions of others who were disabled, homosexuals or whom didn’t agree with the Nazi regime. The Nazi’s came to power because they were depressed from the German defeat in WW1 and humiliated with the reparation payments. Consequently, the National Socialist Party, (Nazi’s) rose to power in the weak environment using propaganda to blame the Jews for the war. The Nazi’s never started anti-Semitism, they just bought a political dimension to anti-Semitism- there was still the suspicion that Jews were blood libels. The Nazi’s rose to power from 1933-1945 and within that time, millions of people were humiliated, beaten, starved, gassed to death, cremated and burnt in mass graves. Over 6million Jews were killed during the Holocaust in evil ways, and those that survived were left with the mental scars and images of what they lived through miraculously. The cruelty that they witnessed, along with the personal and communal sufferings that they endured left the Jews that were able to survive with a shaken faith and the ability to question G-d’s existence. Four theologians; Eliezer Berkowitz, Emile Fackenheim, Ignaz Maybaum and Richard Rubenstein provide the main sources and viewpoints that Jews after the Holocaust base their beliefs on. Eliezer Berkowitz...
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...INTRODUCTION: In many, the ordinary citizens of Germany had a large responsibility to the Jewish people and therefore, some responsibility over the Jewish Holocaust. It may have been that without the participation of ordinary citizens, there never would have been a holocaust and Germany’s history would have been forever changed. However, without the dedication and ideologies of the Nazi Party, the holocaust may have never been invented. And without the Allies ‘by-stander’ position, the holocaust may have never been so successful in their mass murder. ORDINARY PEOPLE: When the ordinary citizens of Germany cast their votes to elect Hitler the Chancellor of Germany they were unknowingly signing the death sentence of between five to six million...
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...Some of the leaders like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini took full control of their land by reorganization of paramilitary units as well as exiling, murdering, and imprisoning former devotees. The idea of anti-Semitism lead to the rejection of Jews as an inferior race that interfered with the economy of Germany. They were the enemy in the Fascist Ideology of Germany. They were also subjected to a lot of pressure due to sponsoring of boycotts by the leadership for their businesses as well as events such as the Night of Broken Glass in 1938 and this fostered increase in violence against the Jews (Stone, 2012). In year 1935, there was the institution of the Nuremberg Laws. These placed various restrictions on Jews and their life in Germany. These included forcing them to wear specific identifying clothes in...
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...doing something could be harmful or even dangerous to yourself or others. The holocaust was made up of a bunch of bullies. This is because Hitler and the Nazi’s didn’t see the jews as a race. They made people feel like they needed to hide in order to be safe. This is what bullies do to make people scared of them even though the bullies are the ones actually threatened. The Holocaust is like bullying because the Nazi’s felt threatened by the Jews. Hitler felt eliminating Jews was the best option....
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...There are many reasons on why the Holocaust happened. One of the main reasons was because it was Hitler’s belief that the Jewish people had been responsible for the downfall of Germany at the time. As I just stated, probably the biggest reason on why the Holocaust happened is because Germany’s dictator, Hitler thought that the Jewish people were responsible for the misery that Germany had been going through at the time. What doesn’t make sense is that there had been roughly 550,000 Jewish people (Out of the 66 million percent of the population in the country) that had been contributing to the country’s economy. Another fact is that 10% of the doctors were Jewish, at least 16-20% of lawyers were Jewish and more or less than 5% of Germany’s...
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...Alexia Gonzalez Political Science 4823: The Holocaust/ the Shoah Final Paper December 12, 2013 The Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust Ethnic cleansing and genocide are considered to coexist in a spectrum of assaults on nations or religio-ethnic groups. These threats were more prominent during the 20th century which caused massive violations of human rights and jeopardized the overall security of humans. Determinants of ethnic cleansing and genocide root from socio-political factors influenced by deeply embedded ideologies which are manifested by political leaders of specific regime types. During World War II, German authorities targeted Jews and other minority groups like the gypsies and Pols due to their perceived racial inferiority. The German ideology in attempt to eradicate these auxiliary groups led to the conflict known as the Shoah. The Shoah is the biblical word meaning destruction and it is the standard Hebrew term for the murder of European Jewry. The Shoah was the systematic, bureaucratic and state sponsored persecution of six million Jews. Comparable to other ethnic based genocides, Germans believed they were racially superior and that Jews were inferior; and deemed a threat to the “German racial community” resulting in their mass murder. Various interpretations of the Shoah has given rise to similar attitudes and opinions regarding its historical events. The Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, is one of the largest resources of its kind which includes...
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...The Holocaust was a tragic event that struck the lives of many people personally. No one deserves being hated, even if you disagree with their beliefs, we are all still people. Hate is a very widespread and horrible thing. It was much more noticeable during the Holocaust and civil rights movement, but it can still happen now. We need to stand up and fight for what we believe in and help the ones being hurt. Kristallnacht was a horrible event that should have never occurred. Many Jewish people were affected by it. During this night, Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses, synagogues, and homes. Sick children were taken out of hospitals and dragged over broken glass. Everyone was devastated, many people were left in broken homes. ”Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander” this was a quote by Yehuda Bauer. This means that you should stand up for what’s right and not just watch the bad things happen. If we just wait around and watch, history could repeat itself....
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...remove this darkness from one of the most tragic events to ever happen in history, the Holocaust. There is a classic German legend about a man named Faust. He was a highly successful scholar but was dissatisfied with his life. His legend has created stories of his success in art and music, but the legendary of this man doesn’t end there. According to the legend, Faust sold his soul to the devil in exchange for vast earthly rewards. Millions of innocent Jews were killed by this so called legend, driven by a force of madness and evil of his own ancestors. In his own sick twisted mind he saw an opportunity to solve the problem once and for all by killing off the Jews. It is said that the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or even inaccurate representations. With so much controversy and doubt on the Holocaust did or did it not really happen, everyone has their own point-of-view. Ironically for the people of Germany this legend had an all too real comparison to true events on its history. According to stories from survivors the voices of the dead can still be heard crying out for help. There are many authors who wrote books with great detail on the Holocaust, giving their perspective point of view on this tragic event. During the Holocaust it is said that over six million Jews suffered countless amounts of obscenity throughout the history of time. In the book Histories of the Holocaust by Dan Stone, the author describes the legendary of one man, the will to survive, the...
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...Ray Cai Period C Mrs. Chappell 5/9/13 Ray Cai Period C Mrs. Chappell 5/9/13 The Rising of a Racist Dictator-- Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler is the leader of the Nazi Party (Nazi is the abbreviation of the Germen word “Nationalsozialismus”) (Shirer Foreword). He improved Germany to a powerful country rapidly after the World War I. Also he is one of the main sponsors of the World War II. He used to lead the Germans to the peak of the power and conquest. His Nazi spirit leaded people to the top of the anti-semitism. With his Nazi Party, Hitler killed at least five million Jews, eight million Bohemians, more than two million Polacks and six million Soviet soldiers and citizens. He started the World War II and it made the death of about twenty million soldiers and twenty million women, children and seniors (Shirer Foreword). In recent study of Hitler and his holocaust against the Jews, he rose to power and spread his anti-semitism throughout Germany and Europe, with the establishment of the concentration camps and his doctrine of hate called “The Final Solution”. I found that the disaster for human beings was not only caused by Adolf Hitler, but was also caused by the everyday people in Germany. In some ways, his “success” represented the common aspiration of the German people at that time. The Treaty of Versailles attacked the finance of Germany and it made the Mark (the German currency at that time) become pieces of useless paper. The army and some large...
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