Ghettos, concentration camps, starvation, and deaths. These people were put through everything during this terrible, grueling time. The Nazi forces were overtaking the people day by day throughout Europe. In the ghettos and concentration camps either killers or starvation took the lives of many innocent people. These people did not deserve the treatment they received in such short notice. During the Holocaust the Jewish people should have fought back against the nasty, intolerable Nazis. Opposing views claim that people during the Holocaust should of gone with the flow and should of let the Nazis push them around. Others believe that if the victims would of went with the flow they would have mixed in; however, they would have to do what the Nazis told them to do. Some commodities they were told to do included manual labor, walking the death marches, and to go without eating for days. Even though these people had to do these things, they would have blended in, and it would of been less likely for the people to get hurt or killed by the terrible Nazis. Believing that you could sit back and not deal with the situation is not the way to stand up for yourself. The people should have fought back and fought back powerfully! The Nazi force was breaking the law throughout this whole tragic experience. Torturing these people was against the law, and the law should not have been broken. The Jewish people should have fought back to save themselves and seize this bad practice. Many of the people did not know what to do when someone would show up at their house one beautiful day to take them away; however, this would never have happened if the law had been enforced. The people should have argued this situation. They have their own rights and... ... middle of paper ... ...these people had was heart-shattering. Children in some cases were alone and did not know what to do without their family. Dying to save the lives of others could have been the best thing you would have done for yourself and these people; someone could of been in this situation and would of been that wonderful hero. Many people in this rough position stayed tough and unbreakable, but others could not stand the pressure and crumbled to pieces. The abandoned children were sometimes taken in by other families, so they would have a home to live in and a family to comfort them. Standing up for yourself and fighting back would show that these people were not backing down to anyone, especially the Nazis, who were destroying them and their meanings. People that took part in the uncontrolled Holocaust should have fought back to win their freedom and dignity from the Nazis.
During the Holocaust the Jewish people and other prisoners in the camps had to face many issues. The Holocaust started in 1933 and finally ended in 1945. During these 12 years all kinds of people in Europe and many other places had so many different problems to suffer through. These people were starved, attacked, and transported like they were animals.
The Holocaust has many reasons to it. Some peoples’ questions are never answered about the Holocaust and some answers are. The Holocaust killed over 6 million Jews (Byers.p.10.) Over 1.5 million children (Byers, p.10.)They were all sent to concentration camps to do hard labor work. Jewish people weren’t the only ones sent to concentration camps. People such as people with disabilities, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Communists, and Socialists (Byers.p.12). Everyone that was sent to concentration camps was sent via Train cars (www.historychannel.com). They had no food, water, or rest rooms up to 18 days. Many people died from the lack of food and water (Byers, p.15.). They children under 12 and elderly were sent to death camps because they were too weak or young too do the hard labor work so they were exterminated quickly (Byers, p.17.). Everybody at the camps were ordered to wear a certain colored star so they were easily spotted. The Holocaust went on from 1939 to 1945. Throughout all those years it was BAD.
The point of view of a rescuer during the Holocaust had a whole different perspective then the Nazi’s or people who agreed with it. The Holocaust brought devastation to many people.
...ey survived. These were usually young girls. That disabled them for life and your letting the people that did this to them walk off with a short sentence to jail and then they can go off and live their lives again? This is plenty justified. These people had to stand for hours on end, threatened by dogs and whips, they were hungry and thirsty beyond belief, their families were taken from them, and their hope was taken from them. The Nazis definitely got what they had coming to them.
Extremely hostile environments forced people to make fast decisions that could have been right or wrong. In some, their conscious came through, but in others their bodies needs were greater than their minds. Everyone is different and everyone deals with devastation in their own way. Although many people made decisions during the Holocaust and in present day that they may regret or be proud of now, they should never have been put through this experience just because of their religion or any other beliefs they may
In the Holocaust millions of Jews lost their lives because of simply who they were. Many however hid and survived this dark event in history. It was the year 1933 and WW11 roared on, some saw it as a war against countries but eventually everything dark and ugly came to the light. Adolf Hitler was the chancellor of Germany and had obtained great popularity with the German people. While beginning to attack nations he was also trying to destroy all Jews in a horrific mass genocide. Creating concentration camps and taking all that the Jews owned he began to round up these human beings as if they were cattle. The stories account for them as being kidnapped at midnight to being tricked into going to their death thinking they were going for a better life. Not all stories ended in despair, there were many who managed to outsmart the Nazis and their allies. Many hid from them, blended in or fled to safe countries. Even under all the pain and horror many prevailed and won the prize of life. People, no matter who will fight to live no matter what the circumstance. These are the stories of those fortunate survivors who hid, fled, lived to tell their perilous account of the holocaust.
What does the term “propaganda” say, what does one think of, when approached with this term? Would one think it was of a positive of negative connotation? What about the association it had with the holocaust, would it then be considered negative? Did the Nazis use the role of propaganda overtly?
...d decisions that were need to be met, most will lie to one another or to themselves. It becomes a time where everyone is on their own. It just will not work trying to help others and still help yourself. It has been shown that when in the heat of the moment, most will reveal sides of themselves that either oneself or others may not have even known to be there. Now, after realizing not only the physical, but emotional ties that came along with the Holocaust, do you think that it was right to come to an “every man for himself” type of survival or should have they stuck together. This leads to the other question of would there have been a different outcome if had done so? Lies and deceit has shown not only a change in people at this time, but how in the end decisions that were made because of the shift of the inmates had really instigated the situation versus helped.
The persecution of European Jews by Nazi Germany was described as a cruel act of racism led to the mass murder of the Jews. Ilse Koehn experienced all of this first hand as a little girl in Berlin, Germany. She was classified a Mischling, second degree meaning she had a jewish heritage in her family line. The holocaust was a matter of defining the issue of race but it was also mixed with nationalism and businessman getting rid of Jewish competitors. Ilse Koehn was one of the many people affected by the holocaust during World War II she writes about it in her wonderful memoir called, “Mischlings, Second Degree” it tells how the life of people in germany at the time were treated, it impacts us now today with racism and learning about it in schools.
If the “killers” of the Holocaust were not put in the situations they were in, many of them would not have committed the crimes they did; whether they were killing the Jews or just delivering the Jews to camps, they were part of the extermination of innocent people. Most of them were killing in fear, they didn’t want to be persecuted and murdered so they made it look like they were for the Nazi party. Anne Frank once said, “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” I believe that this quote, which is saying that some people do bad things but that does not mean they are bad people, many are doing things out of fright, hoping it will save their lives, is very true. All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein which is about a Jewish family, mainly on the little girl in the family who goes through the unimaginable during the Holocaust, popped into mind when I heard the quote. Also two short stories called “Tiengen” by Maurice Meier and “Rescuers” by Irene Opdyke came to mind when I read this quote.
6.5 million Jews were sent to concentration camps during the holocaust. Jews were put through a lot during the holocaust, from the time they got picked up to the time they were brutally killed. The holocaust has to be the most horrific and cruel true story known to man. The Nazis had no heart or sympathy for the Jews. The Nazis thought and felt they were better than the Jews and that they were a disgrace to mother earth. Germans put the Jews through Hell and back. The stages of the holocaust was that the Jews would be picked up, then sent to the ghettos, then lastly to the concentration camp to be tortured and/or killed
The Holocaust All throughout history, Jews have been persecuted. The Jews were blamed for killing Jesus and the idea of anti- Semitism has been around centuries before Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Adolf Hitler led the Nazis to power in 1933 promising to make Germany powerful and respected by the rest of the world. He promised to fight Communism, to find jobs for the six million unemployed workers in Germany, to restore law and order, and to get rid of the “Jewish influence” in Germany. Hitler’s speeches were full of hatred for the Jews and this encouraged his followers to attack Jewish people.
”We are the children of the holocaust. We are both Germans and Jews. We are the children of the victims. We are the children of the oppressors. We started out on opposite sides but the memory of the holocaust will join us forever. We shall never let the victims be forgotten, for if we do, we will forget that the perpetrator can be in all of us.” This poem expresses quite well the sensation that most individuals feel when they hear the word “Holocaust.” Although they may not have been there, or known someone who was, they may still feel an underlying sadness or anger due to the events that took place during World War II. I myself am neither a Jew nor have German decent, and I too become emotional at just the thought of such a devastating occurrence. It is in this sense that I will discuss how the Holocaust has affected not only the Jewish world, but other peoples as well.
The other opposing views about not fighting back are that some people could have made it out alive without risking their own lives. Most of the non-Jewish people let the Holocaust happen without thinking how bad it was that thousands of innocent people were dying every day. The Jewish people who didn’t fight back might have made it alive if you would have listened to what the Nazis had told you what to do when you were in their camps. But it all depends on which camp you are at, and the type of people who are controlling the camps if they are nice to you or not because some people that were in those camps could care less about killing innocent people. Most of the people who were in the camps feared the Nazis so they were scared that if they would fight back that they would kill them; therefore, most people just listen to what the Nazis said. If the Jewish people fought back it would have risked their lives even more than it already was. Most of the people that were in the camps had a fear of the Nazis and were afraid to d...