Breaking the Spirit of the Jews

851 Words2 Pages

“Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin, meaning “complete burning, sacrifice by fire.” When one hears the word, “Holocaust”, one automatically think of the Jewish exploitation that occurred in 1933-1945. The idea of the Holocaust began when Adolf Hitler became a dictator. He believed that the Jews were going to contaminate his idea of the “perfect race” so he decided to get rid of their population. The Holocaust was a traumatic experience where about 6 million Jews. The Nazis both took away and broke the spirit of the Jews by separating them from the world, denying their religion and anything that would define them as a Jew, controlling their rights and by treating them like non-humans.

The main goal of the Holocaust was to get rid of all Jews to save the world from a Jewish domination. In order to do this, Germans would have to wipe out the Jewish population in every location that had a mass amount of Jews. Ghettos were created to hold a large amount of Jews that would separate them from the Germans and make it easier to transport them to death camps where they would be killed. In the ghettos, Jews were “face-to-face” with death through starvation, slave labor and darkness. They were isolated with their own and were prohibited to even look out the window that faced the other side of town where Germans reside. This interfered with the spirit of the Jews because they were being isolated from things like the store, the clothing shop, their German neighbors/friends and they would have to give away what they had everyday to Germans that controlled random house checkings. They now had to live and be surrounded with their own kind which takes away the fun of learning about their background, since they are all Jews, and they couldn’t l...

... middle of paper ...

...d to follow all German orders making it easier to kill them. Also the breakdown of the Jews spirit was another technique of death because without hope one has nothing to hold on to and would prefer the fastest way out of misery to end the pain, which would be instant death. The understanding of the Holocaust is important today because it helps us understand how dangerous it is for one person to have complete power over everything that could result in the cruelty of one person to another trying to wipe out an entire population based on dislike.

Works Cited

Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 22 Apr. 2014.

"WORLD HOLOCAUST FORUM | Historical Data | The Holocaust History."WORLD HOLOCAUST FORUM | Historical Data | The Holocaust History. N.p., n.d. Web. 22Apr. 2014.

Open Document