How Did The Nuremberg Laws Help Jews Respond To The Holocaust?

There were many cruel acts committed against the Jews in the 1930-40’s throughout Europe. The Nazis and Germans were horrible to the Jews. They tortured, killed and injured millions of Jews throughout Europe. We, as Jews, try to remember these horrible acts done to fellow Jews and promise that they will never happen again. The Nuremberg Laws were a new set of laws made by the Nazi’s in 1935. These laws were mainly against the Jewish people living in Germany at the time, but also against the gypsies and the blacks. These laws prevented the Jews from intermarrying and having sexual relations with Germans, from having German citizenship, and from hiring a German maid under the age of forty-five. On September 14, 1935, the Nazi officials’ showed

He said that these laws would help the Jews by making “a level ground on which the German people may find a tolerable relation with the Jewish people”. These laws actually did help many Jews find out their Jewish heritage and how Jewish they really are, but did not help them in any other way. Peter Gaupp, a Mischlinge, said that in between 1933-1935, Jews did not really know whether they were German citizens or not, until these laws came out. He called these years the “lawless years” since nobody knew whether they were citizens of Germany or not. Lots of Jews did not take these laws seriously, although there were many that took these laws into consideration and abided by them. Following the Nuremberg Laws in Germany, many other countries made anti-semitic laws against the Jews. The Nuremberg Laws had a very big impact on the Jews; their non-Jewish friends stopped speaking to them, their businesses had to close down due to the lack of income, they lost their high-power jobs and therefore had to work very low paying jobs. A few years later, in 1938, it became almost impossible for the Jewish people to try to find a better life by leaving Germany since most countries were not accepting Jews at the