The Holocaust: The Repatriation

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The Repatriation The Holocaust during the years of 1993-1945, was a time of despair since it involved persecution and murder. It took many years to defeat the Nazis and rescue the few Jews that were left. After World War II, the Jews were able to to go back home. Though, their return wasn't very welcoming. Close your eyes and imagine coming back to your home and see others living in there or is no longer there. This is what the survivors of the Holocaust came to after the inhuman conditions and situations they were put. Because the people who took over their houses were embarrassed and if you recall, people who are afraid are most likely to humiliate others to hide that they are afraid. To add on, there were pogroms, or riots where the town gathered around to kill the Jews that came back home. Despite the Holocaust being over, the non-Jewish people did not accept the Jews coming back to their homes, and they often persecuted and sometimes killed them. Because the Holocaust pointed out Jewish people, the local populations began to discriminate them. When the survivors of the Holocaust were released, they were able to go back home.Some didn’t, scared to be free and most of their relatives were dead anyways. During that time, the German living there were very unfriendly that they returned. The Germans had formed an anti …show more content…

These camps were held where some concentration camps once were. As they waited to be shipped off to foreign places for refuge, many countries like Palestine and the British government closed their doors to many, because they limited the number of refugees. Some refugees attempted to cross Palestine illegally, but wound themselves deported back to Germany. What the United Nations did that helped calm the situation was separate Palestine into two: the Jewish and Arab states. To add on, the United states expanded the number of refugee entry (“The Fate of

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