Fighting To Live During The Holocaust

What was it like to live in the time during the holocaust? What made the holocaust so revolutionary? Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler had a masterplan to eliminate the jews in Germany, the Nazis became powerful in a way that they saw the Jews as inferior. Through 1933 till 1945, roughly more than 11 million people were murdered. During the holocaust 1/3 of all Jewish people alive were persecuted. They created transit, concentration camps to monitor the Jews during the war. The concentration camps took away the rights of the victims as they were put through such traumatic experiences. The victims were racially discriminated to the point where they were treated poorly at the camps. Inmates were put through forced labor and were abused. This became

Once, Elie Wiesel a Holocaust survivor stated, “Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Elie is explaining how innocent children would be killed just for being Jewish. During the Holocaust, about 6 million Jews were killed. They were first highly discriminated and then that led to the concentration which they were forced to work to the death. During the Holocaust, the discrimination impacted the way people viewed Jews and helped Hitler’s ultimate plan. To begin, there were many political laws implemented against Jews. Secondly, Following all of the political laws implemented against the Jews, there were also many social laws that the Jews faced. Lastly, the Nazis separated the Jews from the rest of society by creating ghettos.

This statement depicts a glimpse of what the Jewish people had to endure during the holocaust. The holocaust was an extreme form of massacre. It is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The duration of the holocaust was from January 30th, 1933 to May 8th, 1945. The holocaust began in the year of 1933 when the Nazi party came to power, the leader Adolf Hitler believed that the Jewish people belonged to a 'low' and 'evil' race, and they were affecting the lives of the Germans pessimistically. Hitler's motto was to punish, alienate, and torture anyone who differed from him, with religion being a main factor. The Nazi’s blamed the Jews for all the social and economic problems

Over 11 million men, women and their children were killed during the Holocaust, but, more than half of them were Jewish. Innocent human beings were abducted and put into concentration camps from 1933 to 1945, where they were tortured and forced to work long hours, each day, without food or water. Eventually, more than half of the Jews were killed and only a small amount of them survived. The Holocaust happened because of one man’s plan to rid the world of all Jews. He was determined to succeed. Adolf Hitler began a movement that resulted in the execution of six million Jews.

There are lots of books about the Holocaust, and what it was like to be in a concentration camp as a Jew, or what it was like being an SS officer during that time, but barely any focus on what is was like to grow up in the Holocaust as a civilian onlooker to the war. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak he tells the story of Liesel Meminger who travels to a foster home in Munich Germany, and experiences what it’s like to live in a war. She deals with rations, knowledge limited to the learnings of what Hitler wants the children to know, survival of the fittest, and the reality of death around her. With the Hubermann family, and her best friend Rudy, Markus takes us on a journey that shows that life as a child in Nazi Germany is difficult when

The Holocaust was the worst genocide in history. The obstacles people went through would almost kill them. It is important people know about this topic so they do not make the same mistake again. Studies have shown that 5 in 10 millennials do not know about Auschwitz, let alone the Holocaust (CBS News). Many European countries have made Holocaust denial illegal. Obstacles were overcome in many Holocaust books/videos including PAPER CLIPS, multiple childrens books, THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS, and THE BOOK THIEF.

To be resilient one must be faced with an obstacle to overcome to grow stronger. During the Holocaust everyday they came close to death with no guarantee of seeing tomorrow. They were constantly fighting to survive doing whatever they could. The Holocaust survivors showed resilience by overcoming their difficulties through their faith and hope and love of family which lead them to a better tomorrow.

World War II ended in Europe on May 7, 1945, but to many survivors of the Holocaust, the war would remain with them for the rest of their lives. Not only had it brutally stripped them of their families, but also of their own humanity. As the survivors came to realizations that their families would not return to them and the initial hardships of returning to a normative life wore off, the memories of the concentration camps and the shock of brutal separation from family came flooding back into their minds. These memories often caused radical change in mental behavior and, to a degree, somaticized themselves into the “survivor’s syndrome.” (Niederland 14) The symptoms seen in “survivor’s

“Number of Jews who lived in Europe before 1933: Approximately 9.5 million, 60 percent of the world’s Jews” (Haaretz). The Holocaust started Jan 30, 1933 and ended May 8, 1945. Hitler was the leader of Germany, he hated Jewish people and blamed them for everything. Hitler is the reason why 6 million Jewish people were murdered. In the Holocaust, the Jewish people did not give up easily, they formed two types of resistance to fight or survive the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, there was various acts of Jewish resistance both armed and unarmed in order to preserve honor and faith.

If there is any matter of defining Jewish resistance during the Holocaust it is with a quote by Maya Angelou, “You may tread me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I’ll rise”. Though these words are not from a Jew, it is still implied to their resistance. On the year of 1933, during World War II, Nazis forced Jews to relocate themselves into the ghettos. While in the ghettos, Nazis made every effort to dehumanize Jews in forms of extermination, liquidations, shootings, and many unexplained cruelties. Once the community had enough they reacted with resistance. In order to maintain their humanity, Jews used armed and unarmed resistance.

Nazis which proved to the world the Jews are not that easy to extinguish. The Jews had several ways of exhibiting resistance, but "Organized armed resistance was the most powerful form of Jewish opposition"(Jewish Resistance). Armed resistance is an important aspect to revolting not only because it reinflicts the pain lashed upon the Jews, but it also shows the Jews have the ability to fight back and gives the world the knowledge that Jews do not go down easily. However, resistance is not only an act of violence since the Jews demonstrated several non-violent forms of resistance while locked up or

The holocaust was a time people were surrounded by humiliation, exploitation, hardships, loss and death. It was barely possible for people to stay human during this time. The Holocaust was a severe tragedy that happened in the early 1940s and will forever be remembered. There were many people,The Bielski brothers in particular, who remarkably fought against the beliefs and doings of Hitler and the Nazi party.

The Holocaust during World War II was the toughest time for all the Jews. A man named Adolf Hitler came in control of Germany Government and the Nazi's was created and intruded into many countries in Europe. Some of the countries included Poland, Greece, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, France, Norway, and Netherlands. The Nazi's soldiers stands by every corners and capture every Jew they laid their eyes on was then send to the concentration camps. The Jews are later put on a train for a long period of time with no life necessities available for example food, water, and a bathroom. After arriving at the camps the females and males are separated, and they went their own ways. The Jews were forced to work for the Nazi's; however in the end the German

The Hardships of Living During The Holocaust By:Anali Moreno There was many things going on in the beginning of the 1930’s - the 1940’s. This was the time of the biggest murders of the century have begun. If I lived during the 1930’s - 1940’s in Germany I would be careful of the people I would talk to,the sickness and diseases,and the kidnapping of the Jews. To begin, a lot of people in Germany had to be very careful and suspicious about the people around them during the Holocaust. According to “The Book Thief” page 85 it states,” Toward the end of 1939,Liesel had settled into a life in Molching pretty well.

The Holocaust was a really tragic event that took place in the period from January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945, during the Holocaust about 11 million Jews were killed (Wikipedia) by a german group that saw the Jewish people as an inferior race, the Nazis, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, mercilessly killed all of those unfortunate to be caught. To this day, there are still survivors that witnessed this horrifying event, there are also journals and articles that explain in great detail how the Holocaust survivors were affected physically and psychologically. In the article “The Holocaust and Its Effects on Survivors: An Overview” Paul Chodoff describes how the survivors of the Holocaust were psychologically affected by their horrific experience during the Holocaust. The article “Disorganized Reasoning in Holocaust Survivors” by Abraham Sagi, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Tirtsa Joels, and Miri Scharf compared Holocaust survivors with people who did not experience the Holocaust to see how they were different when it came to psychological health, this was to conclude how the Holocaust survivors were psychologically affected by the Holocaust. “Sense of Coherence Moderates Late Effects of Early Childhood Holocaust Exposure” by Elisheva A.M. von der Hal-van Raalte, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn and Marian J. Bakermans - Kranenburg describes what the children that had survived the Holocaust had to go through to survive and the psychological trauma that scarred them for the rest of their