Kaplan's Theory Of Anti-Semitism

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Kaplan argues that anti-semitism was mainly focused on men. He claims this because from his studies he has found that men were treated worse. Men had a harder time dealing with the gestapo. After losing their jobs and realizing the severity of the situation, families decided that it was best if the men fled the country and made a place for them to live elsewhere. Alongside this decision, women and children were to stay back for a little, while their fathers/husbands made a future somewhere else, due to the fact that the women and children had an easier time with law enforcement then the men did. Marsha (Senderowski) Taplin fled during the war and survived. When she came back a man helped her go from house to house looking for the things that had been looted from her family during the war. …show more content…

Rosa (Binder) Sirota was about seven when a woman gave her and her mother shelter to hide them from the gestapo. The first night they were there a “gestapo” tried to take Rosa (Binder) Sirota mother away. Rosa (Binder) Sirota mother ran away from this “gestapo” and hid in a little booth where an actual gestapo was. This man, the real gestapo, let her mother go. Lilly Appelbaum Malnik’s German boss spared her and her family. Her boss gave her aunt and uncle the key to their business so they could hide overnight, while Lilly Appelbaum Malnik would stay with her German boss. Their kindness saved Lilly Appelbaum Malnik’s life. These three things are examples of how Jewish women were treated better than Jewish men during and after the

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