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anymore. I was just a Jew. He put the blame on me and my people for war and everything bad. He made mean men come and place yellow stars on us so everyone knew who we were. People started treating me bad when they saw that. My mother and father and the other grown ups were banned from their rights such as owning businesses, government service, and marrying citizens that weren't Jewish.. In November of 1938, they found enjoyment in the destruction of our synagogues, our homes, and our businesses in Kristallnacht. Then after that is when I was banned from going to school and I was no longer allowed in places like grocery stores and barber shops. All because I was a Jewish child. Then one night, I was taken to a horrible place. It was so dehumanizing
and I knew that this wasn't where it would end even though my parents tried to convince me otherwise. Getting there was a nightmare, we were packed in by the 1000's on train cars where we could hardly move. It only got worse from there. When we arrived at Auschwitz my two baby sisters and my parents were taken away from me. I figured that maybe because they were older and much younger, they were taken to a less intense place. It took a long time for me to realize I was wrong. A lot of the people who were around me in the bunks thought it was just a labor camp until the war was over. I knew this was untrue, because when the officers got mad at someone they would disappear. We were being worked almost 15 hours a day and we got little to no food. When we did get fed, it was often old and moldy bread or a cup of soup. I heard that the Americans thought that what they were hearing about these camps were just rumors at first and I think that's logical because it must have seemed too horrible to comprehend. I think tried to defeat Hitler from America rather than come see for themselves what went on here at the camps. I don't blame them for that either, I wouldn't have wanted to see the camps if I were them. I'm uncertain of what the future holds, honestly. Not too many Jews are as lucky as me when it comes to being rescued. Many of us can not go back to Germany and many of us are deemed DP's. I may go to the US, I know they are allowing us in by the 100,000s, or to Palestine, I hear talk that many of my people wish to go there. Wherever I do go, I know it won't be home. I'm not safe there. Nothing will ever be the same to me because my home and health have been taken away. I write this from a hospital where they are treating me for malnutrition and slight pneumonia from the harsh and cold conditions. I know that I am now free, but I will never be viewed the same again. Now I am a Jewish Holocaust survivor, not a girl.
After listening to a testimony from Ralph Fischer, a Holocaust survivor I have gained a new level of understanding to what happened in those few years of terror when the Nazi party was at power. On top of that I have learned that they are just like other people in many different ways. As a child, Ralph went to school, played with friends, and spent time with his family. All that is comparable to any other modern-day child. However, as the Nazi party rose to power he was often bullied, left out, or even beat for being Jew. Although not as extreme, I have often been mistreated because I was different, and it’s easy to understand the pain of being left out just because you are not the same. Eventually he had to drop out of school and then had
Prior to being taken, it is known that Wiesel was very strong in his beliefs of God and the ideas behind the Jewish religion. However, he questioned God while he endured the torture that the Nazis inflicted on many different races. He questioned why God had done this to these innocent people. Elie Wiesel lost much of his faith while in the Most people have never experienced anything near as awful as what Wiesel experienced. He was one of the only people who found a way to hold onto their faith.
That was all I knew,” (Wiesel 4). Even though he was so young, his faith in the Lord was stronger than most of the other Jews in the area, whether they were younger or older than him. Sadly, throughout the story you can see his faith deteriorating when he moves from one concentration camp to another after he and his family were captured and deported by the Nazi’s. He questions if God was ever there for him and where he is when he needed him the most. He wonders why this is all happening to him and his family when he has done nothing wrong.
"It was illegal to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am
Murders inflicted upon the Jewish population during the Holocaust are often considered the largest mass murders of innocent people, that some have yet to accept as true. The mentality of the Jewish prisoners as well as the officers during the early 1940’s transformed from an ordinary way of thinking to an abnormal twisted headache. In the books Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi and Ordinary men by Christopher R. Browning we will examine the alterations that the Jewish prisoners as well as the police officers behaviors and qualities changed.
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children" (Nelson Mandela). If this statement is considered true, then it's fair to say that during times of the Holocaust, the German society was at an all time low. Children during the Holocaust did not have a carefree childhood, like they should have, but instead were placed under strenuous conditions. They had to go through being separated from all family and friends, being chosen the first to go to, and in most cases a permanent loss of family members. The Holocaust was undoubtedly a horrific experience for everyone involved but for children it must have been traumatizing.
“He’s the man who’s lived through hell without every hating. Who’s been exposed to the most depraved aspects of human nature but still manages to find love, to believe in God, to experience joy.” This was a quote said by Oprah Winfrey during her interview with Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor. No person who has not experienced the Holocaust and all its horrors could ever relate to Elie Wiesel. He endured massive amounts of torture, physically, mentally, and emotionally just because he was a Jew.
of the Holocaust and Hitler's attitude towards the Jews, he hits home for most of us. Despite
Everyone is different and that is what makes the world a wonderful place, at least one would think. But 1944 and 1945 German folks called Nazis discriminated against anyone that was different from them. Nazi soldiers made people feel less o f a person, all because they believed in different faiths. In the story The Night written by Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor he tells of the dehumanizing ways of the Nazi soldiers and how they made Jews feel less of a person day by day. Jewish people were at the very top for being different; they were hated by the Nazis. It was believed that everything bad that ever happened were the Jews fault. They went through unfair treatment just because of their religion.
... During the rule of Adolf Hitler, many children who were Jewish lived a very frightening and difficult life. They were never given the love and compassion that every child needs and deserves growing up. The Holocaust is a story that will continue to be shared until the end of time. Works Cited Peabody, Halina.
In the Summer of 1941, Adolf Hitler started exterminating Jews and other non-Aryans, as a part of his plan to create a perfect Germany and to carry out his ‘Final Solution’ to the ‘Jewish Question’. Before exterminating 6,000,000 Jewish people, Adolf Hitler had already performed several actions which singled out the Jew as an evil person and one who should be killed. In 1923, Hitler was caught while trying to overturn the Bavarian government and was imprisoned for 5 years. In prison, he wrote the famed autobiography, Mein Kampf, in which he stated his first publicly known anti-Semitic beliefs and his ‘Final Solution’ to the ‘Jewish Question’. While imprisoned, there was a worldwide depression as economic markets crashed worldwide. This would help Hitler because once out of prison he would use this to help gain power both for the Nazi’s and for himself politically by promising better things to come in the future. In 1933, while preaching in front of a large Nazi crowd, Hitler used the Jews as scapegoats for Germany’s loss in World War One. “If at the beginning of the War and during the War twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the people had been held under poison gas, as happened to hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers in the field, the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain.'; Many people were upset at the loss, and blaming the Jews made many people anti-Semites. Once he was named chancellor in 1933, Hitler preached about creating a Germany for true German people and a more centralized Germany. This included eliminating those who were non-Aryans and/or non-German. He would later detail about what a true German was in the Nuremberg Laws. He stated that Jews were not really Germans but instead, they were non-Aryan, and they were malignant tumors.
It did not matter whether you were a good person at heart, if you were a Jew, you were scum. The hatred of Jews went on in schools, the streets, and in homes. Kids in school would get talked down on by teachers; they would even tell other kids not to talk to certain students just because they were Jewish. One writer gave a personal example about her experience the day she was made to seem less of a person, while in school, “Even later that day I couldn’t remember what he actually said, but at some point while he was talking he pointed his finger at me and he said, ‘Get out you dirty Jew’,” (Smith 52). This was something that took everyone by surprise. Even when people would be walking along the streets, Germans would run over Jews with their cars.
All the Jews had to wear all the same clothing so that they could be
“One of the most extraordinary aspects of Nazi genocide was the cold deliberate intention to kill children in numbers so great that there is no historical precedent for it.” (Lukas, 13 Kindle) About 1.5 million children were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust—one million being killed because they were Jews (ushmm.org) The Germans had a clearly defined goal of killing the Jewish children so that there would be no remnants of their race to reproduce, resulting in extinction. Not only were the children that were victimized in the Holocaust persecuted and murdered, but they were all stripped of their childhood. Children were not allowed to be children—they had to, for their own survival, be adults. The oppression of children because of race was a direct result of Hitler’s cruel policies and beliefs. In order to stifle the Jewish race from growing, the children were the first to be slaughtered at extermination camps (ushmm.org).
In 1934, the death of President Hindenburg of Germany removed the last remaining obstacle for Adolf Hitler to assume power. Soon thereafter, he declared himself President and Fuehrer, which means “supreme leader”. That was just the beginning of what would almost 12 years of Jewish persecution in Germany, mainly because of Hitler’s hatred towards the Jews. It is difficult to doubt that Hitler genuinely feared and hated Jews. His whole existence was driven by an obsessive loathing of them (Hart-Davis 14).