Kristallnacht: Children Of The Holocaust

The event leading up to Kristallnacht was involving a shooting. A young Polish man named Herschel Grynszpan found out his parents were exiled to where he was born in Hanover , Germany. For retaliation on November 7 , 1938 he shot Ernst Vom Rath. Rath lived 2 days after and died due to wounds; Hitler attended his funeral and that day of continuing the next day . During Kristallnacht many destructive things were done to the Jews. Over 250 synagogues and 7,000 Jewish business were burned. Any business owned by a Jew wasn’t allowed to reopen. 91 were dead and over 30,000 men were arrested and sent to camps. The German people made Jews life a living hell and things became harder and harder on the Jews causing them to be prohibited from certain areas of the city and school.

Kristallnacht, or the "Night of Broken Glass", is one of the most crucial events in German, Jewish, and World History. Before, the Jews were simply assaulted and verbally abused. However, on the night of November 9, 1938, an unplanned and extremely violent action against the Jews occurred. In two days, over 250 synagogues were burnt down while the fire department did nothing to stop it, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, Jews were murdered, Jewish cemeteries, schools, hospitals, and homes were looted by SS while the police attempted to preserve them but failed. Before Kristallnacht, Jews ' lives were not threatened. Historically Jews were not welcome by many countries which

The Holocaust was one of the most horrific events in history. It involved the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews and certain groups of people that were unable to meet the standards of the Aryans. The Holocaust involved the slaughter of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators under Adolf Hitler. The three main causes of the Holocaust were, Anti-semitism, Propaganda, and Hitler.

The Holocaust was a great tragedy, but it didn't happen overnight. It was a long process of demeaning Jews as subhuman. This started as early as 1933 when Hitler first came to power. However, Kristallnacht, or The Night of the Broken Glass, was like the dam bursting. It was when the government of Germany encouraged its people to loot and burn Jewish shops, synagogues, and schools. In addition, many Jews were pulled out of their houses in the middle of the night and sent to concentration camps. In some towns so many of the men were sent to the camps that the women and children were forced to clean up the broken glass that littered the streets. Kristallnacht was a very significant point in the Holocaust,

Anti-semitism was one of the factors that lead to the horrific genocide, yet this genocide began with the spread of words and ideas from “Hitler’s” point of view. He started the spread of hate. On November 9, 1938, the Nazis destroyed synagogues and the shop windows of Jewish-owned stores throughout Germany and Austria. Kristallnacht or “The Night of Broken Glass” was a time of horror. Germans (Nazis) invaded Jewish communities and destroyed everything Jewish. The Nazis wanted to strike fear into the Jewish people, so they destroyed

The Holocaust was one of, if not the worst mass murder in history. The Nazis did one of the most horrifying things you could think of, killing so many innocent people. Many different groups of people other than jews were also victims of this tragic event. Some of those other groups were: LGBTQ individuals, the physically and mentally disabled, slavs, and members of opposing political groups. These groups of people were ripped from their homes and put into concentration camps. The Nazis would either separate them from their family or they would keep them together and they would have to watch the Nazis torture their family and friends. During this very tragic point in history, more than six million Jewish lives were taken, in total there were over 12 million victims of the Holocaust. Not only did this affect the survivors it also affected families of the victims, survivors and anybody else that was connected through this tragedy. The Nazis, came to “power” in January 1933, which was during a time Germany was going through an economic hardship. They believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, were "inferior.” Adolf Hitler played a very big factor in everything that went down. Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party and was also known as the dictator of the Holocaust. The Nazis did have others that were Hitler’s “army” and they took orders from Hitler to do awful things to the victims and they were commonly known as

The holocaust was the systematic, state-organized persecution and murder of at least six million jews. 100 days after Hitler became chancellor of Germany, Nazis began having book burnings to get rid of un-German writings proclaiming the death of Jewish intellectualism. This was one of the first acts that foreshadowed the destruction Hitler would have in Germany. Since Hitler and the Nazis felt that all Jewish peoples made Germany impure, their goal was to put an end to the existence of all Jews. Nazis required the elimination of Jews from German life. Their first nationwide action against

30000 Jews were sent to concentration camps during Kristallnacht. The Nazi's came to power in 1932 as they were elected 608 seats in the German parliament. After this event, the Nazi's used fear and propaganda to slowly hypnotize and imbed their beliefs into the minds of every German citizen. However in November of 1938, the Nazi's showed everyone what they really believed in. during "the night of broken glass" or Kristallnacht. The Nazi's ransacked and destroyed many Jewish businesses while they also killed and captured many Jewish citizens . The purpose of Kristallnacht was to strike fear into Jewish communities, which in turn also sparked the beginning of the Nazi war machine that would sweep through Europe over the course of the upcoming years. To assess the significance of Kristallnacht I will look at the consequences, what caused it to happen.

Most people think Kristallnacht was the biggest event during the Holocaust because it started the killing and arresting of Jewish people. Educators and many other people also believe that it was a plan of hitler's to get closer to of getting rid of all the Jews in the world. This affected the Jewish community by making them feel angered and unhappy because they had gotten their shops, synagogues, and homes burned and destroyed. Most of the people in the Jewish community did not fight back either, they just sat and mourned about their

The Jewish race lived in a time of hardships in the mid 1900’s as the Nazis began to take over Germany during the well-known era of the Holocaust. “The Nazis, who came to power in Germany on January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community (Children during the Holocaust).” Therefore, the Nazis began genocide with intentions to kill off all of the Jewish people under the command of Adolf Hitler. Many people were brutally tortured and murdered during this tragic time in Western Europe. However, Jewish children during the Holocaust were the most targeted and tortured groups of individuals.

The persecution rate of Jews increased in 1938 that involved humiliation, beatings, and vandalism. The first action committed by the Nazis towards Jews was limitations on places for Jews the next was Kristallnacht, the night of the broken glass. Kristallnacht was created in vengeance of a Polish Jew Herschel Grynszpan who shot Ernst Vom Rath. Rath was a German embassy official that was stationed in Paris when a 17 year old short him. Days before the shooting Jews were stripped of their polish citizenship living in Germany. Kristallnacht was then taken out of retaliation against Jews. This occurred on November 9-10, 1938, and was planned by the German government against Jews. The government organized mobs that would torch Jewish stores. This did not only occur in Germany it happened in Austria and some areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, occupied by German troops. During those two days Jews were afraid of being attacked by Nazis. Nazis would torch down synagogues, jewish homes, businesses, and schools. Some Jews were so afraid they did not want to take the risk of leaving their homes and getting attacked. Twenty six thousand men were arrested during Kristallnacht and sent to Concentration camps. Such as Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen. In those two days alone at least 91 Jews were killed. 7,500 shops were looted from and 191 synagogues were destroyed. Apart from stealing items from stores mobs would smash the windows that would create disturbances to the neighbors. To torment the Jews even more the damage committed during Kristallnacht had to be payed by Jews. Even though this did not eliminate the Jews if showed them that they were not welcomed and that was just the beginning

Deciding to go into hiding for an unknown amount of time was a major challenge that imposed many hardships on those targeted by the Nazis. To get around the mindful Germans and police force, false identity papers gained through contacts with the anti-Nazi resistance were distributed to Jews who wanted to attempt to pass as “Aryans” so they were able to roam freely. However, the children not able to pass as “Aryans” were forced to physically hide in places like cellars and attics, remaining motionless, while those in rural areas hid in chicken coops, barns, and forest huts; as a result, children often suffered from a lack of human interaction, fear, and boredom. Infant male Jews were ritually circumcised as a sign of the Jewish people’s covenant

The Holocaust is a very large topic with many subtopics within, which many people have never heard of. One in particular is the Hidden Children of the Holocaust. Like a majority of individuals, I never heard of this topic before, until I started my inquiry work. Hiding children during the holocaust was an effort to save thousands of children’s lives. The children were hidden in different ways, either with false identities, underground, and with or without their parents. The children with false identities were allowed to participate in everyday life activities, like attend school and socialize with children their age, which in the long run this lead to less emotional and mental issues. However, the children that were hidden and not allowed to leave their hiding spots often faced boredom, pain, and torment. Some children were capable of being hid with their parents while other children were not. Depending on the situation the child was in, depends on the effects it had on the child during this time. In this paper, I will be discussing works by two scholars, Natalia Aleksiun’s Gender and Daily Lives of Jews in Hiding in Eastern Galicia and Judy Mitchell’s Children of the Holocaust. Aleksiun’s article talks about the daily lives of Jews in hiding and also about how they prepared their hideouts. Aleksiun’s article mainly focuses on children that were hidden with their families. In Mitchell’s article, he focuses on the hidden children and gives examples/survivor stories on what it

Since Hitler was permitted to aggressively continue his fascist tendencies, in effect the other countries aided him in installing his racist program of genocide. As the war progressed, Hitler was able to start up concentration camps, and later death camps to eliminate Jews, and increase land for his Aryan Race. He was able to make the concentration camps because of the many easy victories earlier in the war. With the concentration camps in place Hitler's first step to his Final Solution was completed. Many Jews were killed on their way to concentration camps, "I cannot say how many people in our car alone died on this trip. Everything was so confusing, and always there was screaming. The chaos was unbelievable. Her Germans created it on purpose to upset us, and then used our behavior as an excuse for beating or shooting us. It didn't take long for us to see the full truth of our situation. No on pretended any more. We had been brought here to die." Hitler's racism was out of control. The fact that he exterminated Jews was atrocious, but the way he had it done was even worse, "Close to it, a huge chimney smoked constantly. That building was the gas chamber where many people, mostly Jews, were killed with poisonous gas, 24 hours a day. When I asked him the rather stupid question, "How do we get away from here?" he told me bluntly. "There is NO way out for any of us but through the chimney. We

The holocaust was that Germans just wanted to destroy the race of Jewish people. This was a way for the Germans to try and kill and ruin it for the Jewish. The anti program for the Jewish was wanted by the Germans so badly that they did anything to destroy the Jewish race and so Kristallnacht was a part that played into this. The Germans wanted revenge and decided after Von’s death on November 9th, 1938. They had to do it quickly and it lasted 2-3 days (depending what