Holocaust Impact On Immigration

Many Jews started to flee Germany and were immigrating to other countries. Many countries did not want all the refugees so they put restrictions on the number of refugees that they let in. If the countries had been more receptive to the refugees fleeing Germany there would not have been such a large number of people killed and the Holocaust might never have happened. Yet if some people did not open their homes and hearts to some of the Jewish families, Hitler’s dream would have been realised and the Jews of Europe and then perhaps the world, would have been wiped out.

There were many Jews who chose to stay while others flee their home countries looking for shelter. “It was not until 1941 that official German policy encouraged Jews to leave the country by making life in Germany increasingly difficult for them. Jews were forbidden from working in certain professions and renting or owning homes in many places; they could not hold on to their financial assets and could not move freely” (America, 2017). As a result of these policies along with a hateful campaign filled with anti-Semitic propaganda and increasingly violent climate, life in Germany was impossible for many Jews.

As Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel once said, “To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice,” that is why we are called to remember. Many movies, novels, and story representations of the Holocaust have been created in order to spread the memory of the past. An important part of remembering is learning, and therefore not repeating the same mistakes once again. Movies may find it difficult to represent the Holocaust accurately, while also giving it meaning and artistic expression. The writer, Edwin de Vries, and the director, Jeroen Krabbé, strive to represent the legacies of the Holocaust and Jewish culture in the film, Left Luggage (1998), based on a novel by Carl Friedman through a portrayal of the daily lives of Holocaust survivors and their children in late 1960s Antwerp, their direct confrontations with their memories of the Holocaust, and character development. The film shows us many examples of the legacy of the Holocaust as it is passed through the children of survivors, and how it continues to affect their daily lives. The audience understands the intentions through depictions of muteness and the necessity to remember.

After Germany lost World War I, it was in a national state of humiliation. Their economy was in the drain, and they had their hands full paying for the reparations from the war. Then a man named Adolf Hitler rose to the position of Chancellor and realized his potential to inspire people to follow. Hitler promised the people of Germany a new age; an age of prosperity with the country back as a superpower in Europe. Hitler had a vision, and this vision was that not only the country be dominant in a political sense, but that his ‘perfect race’, the ‘Aryans,’ would be dominant in a cultural sense. His steps to achieving his goal came in the form of the Holocaust. The most well known victims of the Holocaust were of course, the Jews.

There were a number of influential factors that played a role in the development of U.S constituent’s fears and thoughts about the Holocaust during the time periods. These thoughts and fears at the time dictated over U.S legislator and there ability to pass and make laws aiding Jewish refugees. One of the influential roles included the media because, during the Holocaust the press tried their best efforts to hide and mask the full persecution that Jews and non Aryans were facing (IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE ERA OF THE HOLOCAUST, 1). This served to be immoral in the eyes of the future public, because ignorance is not bliss it’s an illusion people portray to mask reality. With this ignorance in mind the constituents pushed their advocates to not pass laws, because they perceived this genocide as a minor inconvenience (IMMIGRATION). Ignorance leads to pain, and people being set in their ways such as laws.

The Holocaust has impacted the world in various of ways. A plethora of Jews were displaced in Germany and severely harmed. The effects of the Holocaust can still be viewed in today's society. The Nazis believed that exterminating the Jews was justified because the Jews were not only a low and bad race, but were affecting the lives of the Germans negatively. Hitler and the Nazis blamed them for all the social and economic problems in Germany. Adolf Hitler then planned to get rid of the all Jews living in Germany, or all around Europe. After years of Nazi soldiers ruling in Germany, Jews were consistently persecuted severely. Hitler’s final solution became known as the Holocaust, under the cover of the world war, with mass killing centers constructed

Power, could there be too much of it? Or not enough? In the wrong hands, too much power lead to millions of innocent lives being taken away. One of the world’s most famous dictators takes power and has control on whether you live or die. He may not like the color of your hair, skin or what you believe in and for that, the price you pay is your life.

To fully understand the importance of the Jewish Refugee question, it is important to understand the context of what was happening in Nazi controlled Germany at the time. The Nazi regime did not start with killing all Jews, though that was how it ended. It started with a concentrated effort to exclude Jewish persons from every level of society, from

Many Jewish people were persecuted and killed during the Holocaust. “They were not allowed to go to most public areas such as the park” (Children and the Holocaust) “ and the Jewish children weren’t allowed to go to the same school with the other German children” (International Institute for Holocaust Research). Many families tried to leave and escape before it became dangerous for Jews to live in German occupied countries, but “lack of money and strict immigration control caused them not to be able to” (Children and the Holocaust). “Some of the lucky families were able to find a hiding place” (International Institute for Holocaust Research), or escape before the Holocaust, but some of the other “families that could not get away were sent to the ghettos or killing camps” (Children

The Holocaust was the persecution and the murder of six million Jews by Hitler, the nazi party and its collaborators. The meaning of the word holocaust is "sacrifice by fire." During the holocaust the government was the Nazi party. The Nazis, who came to power in Germany, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. Germans thought the Roma's (gypsies), homosexuals, and the disabled people were a threat to the Germans as well. They used these groups as a scapegoat due to the depression after the loss of World War II. Hitlers goal during the final solution aimed to isolate Jews from society and drive them out of the country. (ushmm.org)

The Holocaust not only affected the areas where it took place, it affected the entire world. Even though Jewish people were the main victims in the Holocaust, it also left lasting effects on other groups of people. Both the Nazi and Jewish decedents still feel the aftermath of one of the most horrific counts of genocide that the world has ever encountered. The cries of the victims in concentration camps still ring around the globe today, and they are not easily ignored. Although the Holocaust took place during World War Two, the effects that it had on the world are still prominent today.

The holocaust had a major effect on Judaism as a whole. This conflict between tragedy and faith is not new. Jewish history shows us that the jewish people have undergone the most terrible persecutions and genocide at the hands of many oppressors. Whether it be about the pogroms, crusades, destruction of the Temples, the jewish people have been at the brunt of the most terrible atrocities, and yet this does not shake their faith,Anti-Semitism was nothing new. This became even more evident with the unmasking of the holocaust.The philosophical question of “Shall the Judge of the earth not do justice?” applies just as much to the seemingly useless suffering of an individual as to that of six million individuals. If it could be dealt with on an individual basis before the Holocaust, why couldn 't it be dealt with in the same way afterwards? The difference is one of quantity, but the quality of the question remains the same.

Throughout the endless history, there were lots of important and influential event. For example the Dark Age, Enlightenment, Civil War, World War I and II and the Cold War. Over all of these event, there was one event that deeply influence the world and the Jews today, it was the Holocaust. Holocaust, a term that people use to describe the horrible event that happened during World War II which kill millions of innocent citizens. The Holocaust started at January 13, 1933, when Hitler became the leader of Germany. It continued until the V - E Day, which happened on May 8, 1945. 6 million Jews, and 5 million non-Jews were killed during the Holocaust. The causes and effect of the Holocaust was Hitler’s racism, poor economic conditions, and the death of 6 million Jews which led to the creation of the nation of Israel.

The Nazis, between 1933 and 1941, were trying to ‘cleanse’ Germany of all Jews. Many Jews tried escaping to other countries. However, Germany was capturing other countries that Jews were in, such as Austria. The German and Austrian Jews tried to flee to America during the Great Depression, but they were not accepted because Americans were afraid they would take away jobs. To limit the number of immigrants, Congress set up quotas in 1924. These quotas remained even after the election of President Roosevelt, who called for a conference to discuss the international problem of the refugees. Myron C. Taylor, a businessman and friend of Roosevelt, along with 32 other representatives from other countries, met at a French resort in Evian during 1938.

During the first wave of German migration, German’s moved to seek more opportunities both economically and religiously. They wanted to live in a free place free of intolerance and judgment, so that they would be able to believe in and do what they wanted. They saw America as the land of infinite freedom and openings from the outside, but were later dumbfounded by the false representations and by the lack of equality. As stated from a German immigrant, who wrote her parents, “They think that a country like America is made of gold. This is not a golden country, but a new one… and here they exploit people as they did the Jews in Pharaoh’s time, 12 hours’ work day a day.” Some immigrants entering America were taken away from families, and split up, due to the great amounts of poverty that they faced. They were mostly separated once they reached farming land. Many Germans on arrival were miserable and discriminated against as foreigners. The German immigrants were also among some of the lowest-paid workers in the United States, and found that manual labor was amongst the best way of collecting money for their families. They continued to work in the same field but in different stores and factories in order to keep up, due to the lack of jobs in farming and fieldwork. Also, a large amount of immigrants came willing to work and work hard and this created a major impact in labor jobs. These included marketable skills that they brought from Germany. This created a large impact on