Jews : A Religious Group Of People Originating From Israel

The story of the Local Charters, specially relating to Bishop Rudiger of Speyer, demonstrates Elukin’s theory of successful integration and relations between Christians and Jews in a local scaled setting. In 1084, a population of Jews departed from Maize because of a fire they feared to be blamed for, and were welcomed by the city of Speyer in Germany. Bishop Rudiger offered the Jews kindnesses such as safety, the right to practice their religion, the right to sell meat and good, and the right to have a legal status. The Jews not only were welcomed into the city, but helped the city thrive economically due to their rights to loan money with interest, rights that Christians do not have. The Jews spoke

After a short time, Hitler put restrictions on the Jews so they could feel like even less of a human. "After May 1940 the good times were few and far between: first there was the war, then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews. Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees: Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn in their bicycles; Jews were forbidden to use trams; Jews were forbidden to ride in cars, even their own; Jews were required to do their shopping between 3.00 and 5.00 p.m.; Jews were required to frequent only Jewish-owned barbershops and beauty salons; Jews were forbidden to be out on the streets between 8.00 p.m. and 6.00 a.m.; Jews were forbidden to go to theatres, cinemas or any other forms of entertainment; Jews were forbidden to use swimming pools, tennis

Between 1933 and 1935, the issuance of laws against the Jews was torrential. Jewish doctors and lawyers were boycotted, then they started to be excluded from state job positions and, in the end, they were marginalized from the social life. However, in 1935, the Nuremberg Race Laws were adopted. They were mainly based on two main ideas: the “Reichsbuergergesetz”, which stated that Jews were deprived of the German citizenship, and the “Gesetz zum Schutze des Blues deutschen und der deutschen Ehre”, which prohibited marriages between Aryans and inferior races. Because of the adoption of these laws, Jews started to be excluded from many professions, from the military service and, in some cases, were forced to leave Germany and they could not take

The holocaust began in 1933 and was when millions of Jewish people were being tortured and killed in concentration and death camps. Hitler, who was the leader of Germany at the time, was an anti-semitic and thought of the Jews as lesser than the Aryans. The Nuremberg Laws, which were enforced in 1935, stated that if someone had a Jewish grandparent, they were considered a Jew and stripped of their civil liberties. In 1938, anything owned by or in relation to the Jewish people was destroyed-this was known as Kristallnacht, and the brutality towards them only got worse. During 1939, Germany invaded Poland and set up ghettoes, where Jews were forced to stay in terrible living conditions. During this time, thousands of mentally and physically disabled

Jews are human beings with their own history, philosophy, and eccentricities. They are a people apart from others not because of their separate religious beliefs, but because they are an ancient cultivating group of people who have their own original antiquities. At the end of the 19th century, millions of Jews are living throughout Europe, and Jews do not have the freedom of movement and live in areas where the government gives them special authorization . Anti-Semitism exists all in the nineteenth century European societies. During the First World War, large Jewish communities advance around the capitals. This concentration of Jewish population in large cities have a strong impact on their lifestyle and make them more visible in the economy and in the culture .

Obviously not the first to initiate anti-Jewish policies, the German Nazis began the era of annihilation, or the attempt to kill all European Jews. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist Party in Germany, excluded Jews from the protection of German law by allowing Jewish property to be seized and Jews to be sent to concentration camps where they underwent forced labor, torture, and execution.6 Hitler’s anti-Jewish policy continued with the passing of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 "for the protection of German blood and German honor."7 These laws resulted in Jews losing rights of citizenship and marriage to Aryans, the requirement that Jews carry special identification cards and give their children specific Jewish names, and the framing of the definition of a "Jew" for legal purposes. Through the Nuremberg Laws, Hitler was slowly taking away Jewish liberty and as a result, making it difficult for Jews to resist their annihilation, which unfolded with mass killings and continued until the end of World War II and the operation of death camps. Becoming apparent throughout the Nazi's annihilation of Jews was that "The Germans…were engaged in no random game of terror and

September 1, 1939 was a nightmare in history for the Jews and it even “hit home” for some of the people across the seas. When the books usually talk about the Holocaust the almost immediate thought that comes to the brain were the Nazis, the horrible, the “bad guys”, but there are those people that were there that gave the Jewish race hope, and we call those our Heroes.

Can you imagine not being able to go to public places because of your race? That is what the Jews went through. The Nuremberg Laws caused this to happen. This all started in 1933. The Nuremberg Laws were extremely prejudice against the Jews because they banned them from public places, judged them by their race, and prohibited certain privileges.

The Jewish population in Germany was around 9 million in 1933. Most of the European Jews also lived in places that the Nazi’s would occupy in World War II. As part of the “final solution”, a Nazi policy to murder European Jews, two out of every three European Jews had been offed by Nazis by the year 1945. Hitler went around collecting Jews and other minorities he found inferior for 12 years and executed them. Those who were not immediately killed were brought to concentration camps where they would either be killed off in gas chambers or worked to death. When the camps were liberated, many of the Jews had no place to go because their homes had been destroyed by the Nazis and the war all together.

In Pre-Modern Europe, Jews would be the largest minority. Jews would follow their own law of Judaism (which had rules such as how to dress and when to work) that would differ from the Christian way. Because of this difference, there was a little tension between the Christians and Jews, but they did co-exist. However, Jews did sometimes get expelled from certain regions. Furthermore, Jews would not be treated as people who practiced a different religion but as people of a separate biological race. Now as countries and borders became more and more apparent, nationalism came on the rise. In order to be nationalistic and band together with others of the same nationality, one must have something or someone to band together against, and unfortunately but predictably, Jews were the target of this newfound nationalism. This resentment of the Jews in Europe had been instilled in their mindset going into the interwar period (“Racism, Anti-­‐Semitism, Colonialism”).

The persecution of Jews began in 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws were passed, invoking Jews citizenship in Germany. The Nuremberg Laws also has several other things, such as forbidding the marriage of Jews and non - Jews. They were prohibited from sitting on park benches, swimming in public pools, and other things which heavily discriminated against them.

Jews - an ethnic/religious/cultural group of some 12M people who trace their descent to the ancient people of Judea who have been exiled by the Romans in the first century CE.

The effects of the second world war in Poland was almost an extinction of an entire race. (Luongo 32-35) Less than ⅓ of the Polish Jew population was wiped out from September 1, 1939 to January 17, 1945. In the beginning of the war, on the day of the Polish invasion, the population was around 35,100,000 citizens in total. This number would be cut in half and then some at the end of the war. The drop in population was due to the fact that the Nazi’s captured and tortured the Polish Jews all around the country and in particular, Warsaw. Warsaw along with other cities in Poland isolated the Jews in their communities and were starved and diseased. (“warsaw” 1) In Warsaw before the resistance, the Jews were captured and sent to their death, in either concentration camps like Treblinka or in isolated 10 foot wall confinements known as the “Jewish Ghettos” there was no way out of the Nazi grasp for these defenceless Jews. (Bond 370)

      Laws were being implemented to force Jews from having a public life.  All Jews were even forced to sew a yellow star of David with "Juden" in the center of the star this was placed so that the Nazi's could easily identify the Jewish people. Quickly, Jews were soon not wanted at public schools, theaters, stores, and they were even banned from certain parts of Germany where, if they were seen they would be shot on the spot. Things became a whole lot worse for the Jews after World War II detonated in 1939 Germany gained full control over Poland. This is when the enslavement began. The Nazi's first target was to annihilate their main leaders and most powerful people. Once

“Now you are finally with me, you are safe now. Don’t be afraid of anything. You don’t have to worry anymore.” Oskar Schindler was just a normal man, but he proved that there was hope for the Jews during the Holocaust. He did the impossible by saving over 1,200 Jews, impacting the Holocaust.