Essay On Jewish Underground

The Jews claim that they are only a religion, but the fact is that they are a race. Whether Orthodox religious, atheists, capitalists or communists, they all still claim to be Jews. They consider themselves to be God’s chosen people but if this true, why do they suffer so much? What were they actually chosen for? Were they chosen to suffer over the course of time? Famous thinkers in Jewish history such as Moses and Abraham have also asked similar questions. Moses asked why the righteous had to suffer and the wicked were allowed to prosper? Abraham asked whether the Judge of the entire earth would give them justice or not. This shows that the Jews have been through a lot for these great to even question their God. The fact is that God has chosen the Jews to be a “Kingdom of Priests and Holy Nation.” All the sufferings they have been through have introduced the most vital concepts to humans such as the value of human life, the concept of history, the value of good deeds, predestination and the rights of an individual. They are predestined to be eternal people, so when a Jew dies, he or she still lives on. As in the Mishnah,

Jewish people were tortured, abused, and subjected through horrific unfathomable situations by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Despite all of the unpragmatic hardships Jews all over Europe faced, many stayed true to their faith and religion. There are numerous stories in which Jewish people tried to keep the roots of their religion well knowing the risk of torture and death. The never ending fear of Jewish people living in the Ghettos and trying to survive concentration camps was difficult, but not impossible for the Jews to keep religion.

Every religious group has suffered a time when their religion was not considered to be popular or right. Out of all of these religious groups that have suffered, no one group has suffered so much as that of the Jewish religion. They have been exiled from almost every country that they have ever inhabited, beginning with Israel, and leading all the was up to Germany, France, Spain, England, and Russia. Not only have they been exiled but also they have suffered through torture, punishment, and murder. Thus, because of the history of the religion, the Jewish people have become a very resilient people. They have survived thousands of years carrying their religion with them from one country to

The Jews used many types of ways to resist against the Nazis. One of the any ways the Jewish people resisted against the Nazis was by spiritual. “The Germans forbade religious services in most ghetto, so many Jews prayed and held ceremonies in secret - cellars, attics and back rooms - as other stood guard”

From 1933 to 1945, hiding Jews was a massive event in Germany. Many Germans risked

During this time the Jews were not expecting for what came, and was very unprepared for the step by step process that happened to make them disappear (Boag). “Up until the nationwide anti-Jewish violence of 1938, known as Kristallnacht, many Jews in Germany expected to be able to hold out against Nazi-sponsored persecution,” (“Holocaust Memorial Council”). The Jewish people of Germany looked at themselves to be German and did many things to prove it, like fight for their country in World War I (“Holocaust Memorial Council”). More than 10,000 Jewish people died fighting for their country in World War I, and many others that didn’t die were congratulated for the work they did by receiving a medal (“Holocaust Memorial Council”).

They had the mentality that they would never give up, they would not be defeated no matter how hard the difficulty. Many choose the mindset which focused around never giving up through the help of God. Faith played a part in the mindset of the Jewish people. Without the perseverance and the will to survive, they would not have fought nearly as hard as they had. I believe that mindset and perseverance was the main reason as to why some survived and others did not. Adding to this, if you did not have the will to live, there would be absolutely no point. If you were not willing to get up and fight for your life, you were basically dead. Perseverance and mindset were a vital quality to have in order to survive the appalling concentration

War. History is filled with it. Some great, some small, and some tremendously horrific. World War II can only be categorized as one of these and to say it was horrific is only putting it lightly. Consequently, those who suffered the brunt of this time was the Jews. They maintained hope through the mental, physical, and emotional abuse forced upon them by the Nazis. The Edelweiss Pirates were a group of teens who rebelled against the Nazis, even before the beginning of the war. Their rebellion filled the Jews with hope.

Fear; that is what the holocaust drove on. Fear gave Jews the need for survival as they began to notice that hope did nothing for them and neither did faith, from a response Elie says to a man who asked where god was,”this is where---hanging here from the gallows”(Wiesel 65).This shows that their

How did the Jews keep their spirits alive? The Jews had went through some hard times during the Holocaust. Jews were forced to live and work in concentration camps until they had died. They found a way to overcome their hardships and still try to get their happiness.

In Elie Wiesel's book, Night, the overlap of optimism and will for survival and faith kept many people in the Holocaust alive, including Elie Wiesel. The Holocaust was an agonizing time for many people. It was a mass persecution and murder of 6 million jews and 5 million non-jewish people. Some people targeted in the Holocaust were Jewish People, Homosexuals, the disabled, Gypsies, Jehovah Witnesses, Communists, and Socialists. They were sent to camps most of the time. Those who were deemed fit to work normally would be anybody over the age of 14 and appearing to be healthy, anybody else was sent to be executed. The Elderly and Women with Children had no chance of being deemed fit to work.

In 1930 there was a horrible crisis. The germans invaded the jews and killed millions of jews, Americans, gypsies, gays, blacks, ect. The germans created a concentration camp and started sending jews to them and made them work for them untill death of later on when they were freed. Those camps help any jew no matter what age/condition they were in, even if they were the richest the Nazis were still gonna kill them.

During the 1930s and 1940s, there was prejudice and discrimination against the Jews. The Nazis blamed them for Germany’s problems, and many people followed them. With people hating on the Jews, the Nazis were able to manipulate and control the people. The Jews were treated badly by not just the Germans, but many others as well. When Hitler came into power in 1933, he commanded the extermination of German Jews. The Jewish people were mistreated and it should not have happened. A ship called the St. Louis carried Jewish people that were fleeing Nazi persecution. They went to many countries, but they were refused and had to find somewhere else. Hitler wanted to get rid of them, so the Nazis gathered them up and placed them in concentration camps were they would be

The Nazis began taking Jewish people in Germany and surrounding countries from their homes and sending

“Certainly, the world without the Jews would have been a radically different place. Humanity might have eventually stumbled upon all the Jewish insights. But we cannot be sure. All the great conceptual discoveries of the human intellect seem obvious and inescapable once they had been revealed, but it requires a special genius to formulate them for the first time. The Jews had this gift. To them we owe the idea of equality before the law, both divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of human person; of the individual conscience and so a personal redemption; of collective conscience and so of social responsibility; of peace as an abstract ideal and love as the foundation of justice, and many other items which constitute the