...Chris Pilkati Philosophy 219 Professor Johnson April 24, 2013 Jewish Life during World War 2 Anti-Semitism – the hatred of Jews has traumatized Jews around the world for a long time. Most of this occurred during the holocaust, which started in around 1939, will be remembered throughout the world, not just among Jews but all people that inhabit the earth. The holocaust was severe tragedy that caused distress among all the people involved on the wrong side of it. It is known as the as the mass genocide of around six million Jews during World War 2. There was extermination by the German Nazi’s who followed their leader Adolf Hitler. On September 1, 1939 was the turning point the people because the most horrifying event was yet to happen. On this day Hitler began his reign and terror with his Autocratic leadership over the people of Germany. Adolf Hitler was on a mission to make the Nazi party the strongest power and have all people follow his reign. Hitler thought the Aryan race was the most intelligent and perfect race and sought out to exterminate all who were not. Hitler believed that the superiority of the Aryan race was being in danger of the Jewish race. Hitler also thought that the Jewish race, who was a small part of the population, were slowly taking over the country. While Germany was starting to take a turn for the worst Jewish owned companies started to take big hits as they were collapsing under financial pressure and declining profits. As part of Germany’s Reign...
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...Jews in Israel are categorized into two major different groups known as Sephardim and Ashkenazim. All Jews are known to have the same basic beliefs but have some differences in their culture and traditions. The Ashkenazim Jews decedents are from France, Germany, and Eastern Europe. They are a group of Jews that were able to form communities in Central and Eastern Europe, which were areas that are their primary region. Many Ashkenazim Jews were known for being economic pioneers, which allowed various opportunities to build trading connections with the Mediterranean and the East. In addition, Ashkenazim primary language was Yiddish and Polish because it was popular in the Eastern and Central Europe. The Ashkenazim individuals were known for being...
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...were fighting the allied forces and the Jews were being persecuted. In 1942, the Nazis began to transport million of Jews from all over Europe to forced labor camps and extermination camps. Literature can help us honor and remember the past because when we read about their struggles, we know about what they went through. It can also help us know how it was such a terrible time because of the way the Jews were treated. The Jews were treated unfairly and their rights were taken away. The Jews could only go to places they were wanted, for example, Jews were only allowed to go to Jewish shops (Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl page 214). The Jews were segregated from everyone else. The Jews were only allowed at Jewish schools (Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl page 214). The Jews had to follow rules that the others didn’t and it was talking about how they could not come in contact with christians. My cites support my reasons because they explain how the Jews were treated unfairly, but then things got even worse. Although the Jews were being persecuted their lives still went on in spite of everything that was happening....
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...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, when a life of a human being is not worth of anything. Many contemporary people deny this kind of influence but objectively thinking leads us to the understanding that the base of everything...
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...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 millions of personal records from the extensive collections of archival and library materials, oral histories, artifacts, photographs, films and other materials that could assist in researching the fates of Jews during the Holocaust. Inclusive to the extensive records, there are multiple books relating to the different perceptions regarding the treatment of Jews during the holocaust;...
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...the Nazi policy towards the Jews by the German People. Source B says that ‘Anti-Semitism has undoubtedly taken root in wide circles of the population’, implying that many German people were in favour of Anti-Semitism. The source then goes on to say that if a German citizen was to buy from a Jewish person, it would have been just to annoy the Nazi’s, not ‘in order to help the Jews’. This also suggests that many German’s were not in favour of the Jews. Source B also mentions these people being in favour of ‘restricting Jews to certain activities’, once again supporting the Nazi policy. This relates to my own knowledge on the Nazi policy, as I know that the Nazi party bought in many laws which restricted Jews from certain activities; such as the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, which forbade marriage between Germans and Jews. Many German’s supported such Laws opposing the Jews. This source originates from A Socialist Party report in 1936, therefore the reliability is debatable. As an opposing party to the Nazi’s, the Socialist Party would be like to give biased information, against the Nazi Party. Similarly, Source C discusses the ‘reprisals were carried out against Jewish buildings and places of businesses’, suggesting that many German’s participated in the Kristallnacht. In this Source, Goebbels goes on to say that ‘the whole population is now firmly asked to abstain from all further action of whatever nature against the Jews’. Goebbels uses the phrase ‘the...
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...regard to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. According to, Jspace News, Kovner was a Jewish-Hebrew poet who used his voice to shed light on the details of the Holocaust, and he strived to make a difference for those being persecuted. The Holocaust may be the most famous instance of Jewish persecution, but it is not the only occurrence. Throughout history, Jews have been targeted as a popular scapegoat, which has led to their history of extreme persecution. The persecution of the Jews has occurred on many occasions. To start, persecution has always been a huge aspect of the history of Jews. Their persecution has affected the history and the development...
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...distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Fear is an emotion known far too well for the Jews during the holocaust. Nazis have taken over their lives and left them with nothing, but fear. Jews fear for the lives of themselves and their loved ones. Elie Wiesel was a lucky individual that got to escape this fear. His book Night describes the trepidation of physical abuse, the consternation of stolen identity,and the apprehension of the way they are transported. Night has an overall theme of dehumanization. The Nazis take away all of the Jews human qualities in three ways that cause their fear....
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...Anti-semitism has existed for about two thousand years throughout Europe, but despite this, the life of German Jews was reasonably peaceful before 1933 (Berenbaum 2018). Anti-semitism existed in many forms such as the Jews being scapegoated for the cause of the Black Plague and the death of Christ, as well as employment...
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...many people all over the world. The name holocaust comes from the Greek word “holokauston”, meaning sacrifice from fire. The holocaust killed many groups of people such as the Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled for persecution, but mostly the Jews. When Hitler first gained power, he formed an advanced police and military force to smother anyone who criticized his authority. With this force, Hitler developed the first concentration camp, Dachau. A concentration camp was used to work and starve prisoners to death. Later Dachau became a huge concentration camp to exterminate Jews. Hitler made life miserable for Jews. On April of 1933, the Nazis initiated by boycotting all Jewish ran businesses. The Nuremberg Laws issued in September of 1935, made it so Jews were excluded from most public life. The law included exposing the German Jews of their citizenship, and outlawed marriages and extramarital sex between Jews and Germans. This law was the start of all legal standards for additional anti-Jewish legislation. After the Nuremberg Laws, many new laws against Jews were created. These laws kept Jews away from parks, fired them from civil service jobs, forced Jews to register their property, and prohibited Jewish doctors from working on anyone other than...
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...as many Jewish lives as he possibly can. It is ironic because at this time, being on the Nazi’s list meant death but Schindler's list was salvation for 1,100 Jews and it will never be forgotten. “We’re receiving a new ‘shipment’ ” – Goethe This quote is when Goethe needs to “make room” for a new ‘shipment’...
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...European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War 2. The Holocaust was a thing that people, mostly Jews, would be brought there and murder them and one way they killed them was gas chambers. Think of it as if you were Jewish and you were the person that was murdered for being innocent and did not do anything. Also imagine if you were starving and had no clothes and had one small blanket to sleep with, how you would feel. The way you feel is the way that the Jews feel. Besides Adolf Hitler, Nazi Soldiers and German Army and SS officers were the most responsible for the Holocaust because they both plotted and maliciously murdered the innocent Jews....
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...He felt that the Nazis were superior to the lower classes, such as the Jews, Gypsies, disabled, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Communists, and Socialists. There were many groups that were persecuted by the Nazis but the Jews were the group that the Nazis targeted the most. The Nazis killed over at least six million Jews. The Hitler demanded the extermination of the Jews because he felt they were to blame for Germany’s lost during World War I. This paper will explain: how Adolf Hitler came to power, the pre-war experience of German Jews; the treatment of the German Jews during the war; the implementation of “Final Solution” and why this event should be considered the most destructive event, committed by members of the human, in history. Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1919. This was considered the interwar period for Germany. When Germany lost in World War I the German leaders had to sign the Treaty of Versailles. This document was sign on May 7, 1919. The treaty put limits on Germany. It caused them to have to give up territories, reduce their military, and “perhaps the most humiliating portion of the treaty for defeated Germany was Article 231, commonly known as the “War Guilt Clause,” which forced the German nation to accept complete responsibility for initiating World War I. As such Germany was liable for all material damages…” This is one thing that caused Germany and the Nazis to blame the Jews. In the 1920s the reparations that Germany had to pay caused a period...
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...Judaism 1. The real impact of the ancient Jews lies in the extent to which Western civilization took over their perspective on the deepest question life poses 2. The achievement of the Jews lies in neither in their antiquity nor their land size, but rather, for their passion in meaning. Philosophy: 1. Being of the Other (god) must be taken into account - No human being is self-created -Everyone, at some point finds his or her power limited 2. Hebrews refused to acknowledge God as having the these qualities (i) Prosaic: Its center is a being of awesome majesty (ii)Chaotic: coalesced in diving unity (iii)Amoral/ indifferent: its goodness was “from everlasting to everlasting” 3. Unlike the rest of the world, Judaism affirmed the world Opening chapter of Genesis concludes with God surveying his handiwork and finding it “very good” However desperate the situation, meaning was always waiting to be won Pressing for meaning in every direction, the Jews refused to abandon physical aspects of existence as illusory, defective and unimportant (unlike Buddhism) 4. Even though know the human self is limited and weak, they saw its unspeakable grandeur Moral weakness weighed heavier for the Jews “I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me” Sin comes from people forging their destinies through free decisions Jews believe that people are God’s beloved children 5. The Jews believed history is important. Reasons: (i) Context in which life is lived affects...
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...the Germans believed they were a superior race, Jewish people were denied many rights, and the Jews were victimized by the Germans. The Nazis began to combine racial theories and theories on evolution to come up with the idea that their race was superior to the Jews as well as other groups. This caused them to be obsessed with the idea of making the master race. This “Aryan Master Race” include people who were of pure aryan descent and those who were tall, fair-haired and light-eyed. Ultimately, Hitler’s...
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