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In 1939, Hitler was unsure of what he was going to do with the Jews; the Nazis were tossing around options and ideas with the goal of removing Jews from the population. The German invasion into Poland, allowed for the first ghetto, regarded as a provisional measure to control and segregate Jews. Ghettos were enclosed, isolated urban areas designated for Jews. Living under strict regulations, with unthinkable living conditions, and crammed into small areas, the ghettos destroyed all hope of retaliating. In this paper, I will discuss what life would be like to be a Jew inside one of the 1,000 of ghettos within Poland and the Soviet Union. I will imagine myself a member of the Jewish council, describing the

Prior to the onset of WWII, conditions throughout occupied Poland & Belarus varied greatly. In some areas, especially in eastern Poland, which the Soviet Union invaded in 1939, and subsequently "formally" annexed, the situation was particularly volatile.1

One central focus of Nazi propaganda was anti-Semitism. Germans were fed stories of Jewish greed and assistance to foreign enemies (Welch). During periods preceding legislation or executive measures against Jews, propaganda campaigns created an atmosphere tolerant of violence against Jews, particularly in 1935, prior to Nuremberg Race Laws of September and in 1938, before anti-Semitic economic legislation following Kristallnacht (Welch). Propaganda also encouraged acceptance of anti-Semitic legislation, as these appeared to depict the Nazi government as stepping in and “restoring order” (Welch). Newspapers in Germany, such as The Attacker, printed cartoons depicting Jews with stereotypical features and personalities. After the Germans began World War II with the invasion of Poland in September

This essay is going to discuss the ways in which the Nazi’s persecuted the Jews between the years of 1933 to 1938. Through the rise of Nazism, Nazi beliefs and propaganda, Nuremberg laws and the Kristallnacht in which will be explained in detail, I will provide a knowledge based analysis of pre-war life and the initial lead up to the war.

Warsaw, the capital of Poland, witnessed firsthand the highs and lows of World War II. After numerous bombings and invasions the city still stands and people live to tell it tale. Warsaw was a targeted by Germany during WWII by Hitler, who had plans for the city to be destroyed. The change Warsaw went through can be pieced together by looking at the invasions and bombings that took place within the city and country. Further analysis of the events that actually occurred in Warsaw during World War II show the general condition of the people within the city.

On September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler and his army of Nazis attacked Poland, marking the first day of six years of war, fear, and suffering. Hitler had long since came to power in Germany. After World War I, Germany was stripped of many things; money, cultural worth, dignity and power. The Germans needed a place to look to for help; they needed a promising future, and Adolf Hitler promised them just that. Blaming the Jewish religion, Hitler began to rise from the masses of Germans. He convinced Germany that the Jews were “untermenschen”, of what roughly translates to in English as “subhuman” or less of a human. So eager for hope of a better way of life, the rest of Germany trusted and gave him the power he needed to carry out multiple acts of destruction.

By the summer of 1943, the German army was retreating to Poland. The city of Lublin fell, and Warsaw fell afterwards. Unfortunately, the Poles discovered that their “liberation” only meant that the Nazis were replaced by the Soviets.

The occupation of Poland took place from September 1939 to January 1945 (USHMM.com). During this time, almost all polish people were segregated from the normal life they used to possess, especially the Polish Jews. These people had to endure many struggles, including being thrown into Ghettos, being sent to Concentration Camps, and a lot of times, death. During 1941, Germany took over the part of Poland that Russia had originally claimed, now making all of Poland, German (USHMM.com). The lives of the Polish Jews made their way in a downward spiral, that would begin with the

Warsaw is the capital of Poland. The city had a population of about 1.3 million before the holocaust. Before the war, the city had the most Jewish people in all of Poland. On September 1, 1939, the German army invaded Poland. Shortly after the invasion, Poland surrendered to the German forces. After the invasion, Poland had suffered damaging bombings and artillery attacks. Jews in Warsaw were now forced to wear white armbands with the star of David. The police soon closed Jewish shops and schools. ("Warsaw")

Warsaw is the capital city of Poland. Before World War 2 the city was a major center of jewish life and culture in Poland. The Jewish population of warsaw prewar was more than 350,000 which made 30 percent of the cities total population. When the German invasion of Poland occurred on September 1st 1939 German troops arrived in Warsaw September 29th, shortly after the surrender.

In September of 1939 Germans invaded Poland and the United Kingdom and France declared war on Nazi Germany. The Nazi’s began to establish ghettos in Poland for Jews. In the ghettos the Nazi’s crowded the Jews and starved them. Thousands of Jews died as a result because of starvation and diseases. In 1940 Germans invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and Denmark. During 1940 Germany bombed the United Kingdom and in the middle

(Bielski Brothers)The book states and lets us know that a strict quota system limited the entry of most Jews into Polish universities, craftsmen were forced to pass a discriminatory Polish –language test. Just as in Botwinick she mentions “that the advocates claimed that Jews are forever aliens who cannot share the national ethos; differences prevented Jews from assimilating with the superior cultures of the host countries (Bowinick).Anti-Semitism in Germany was introduced by Wilhelm Marr, the hatred of Jews was at the core of Hitler’s obsession, the claim that Jews were the bearers of a genetic flaw enabled the Nazis to rationalize their nearly successful genocide. Duff also brings up the subject of Zionism in his book; a movement that increasingly influenced the Jewish advocates “the new government’s tolerance of Jewish expression was a boon to Zionism, the increasingly influential movement that advocated Jewish return to the Land of Israel” (Bielski Brothers). Zionism was very important in the Jewish culture it was a struggle to create a national homeland for the Jews. Political Zionism, which is the organized effort to bring about national Jewish state, evolved from the confluence of several historic streams. It was always important for the Jewish community to be recognized and that recognition dates all the ways back to the 1920’s. Jewish people have struggled enormously to receive their own piece of land, which in the end

This book reveals the tragic, fascinating history of Jews in Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania. It brings readers into the horrific events of WWII and post-WWII. More than a mere

“1938 March 31 – The Polish Senate passes he Expatriots Law, canceling citizenship for Polish Jews living outside the country, unless their passports are checked and stamped by Polish consular officials by the end of October.” (7) In other words, if Polish citizens living abroad failed to meet with appropriate officials, they were no longer welcomed to the country. This conflict of German and Polish laws left thousands of Polish Jews on the border, between Poland and Germany, in the cold and with little or no provisions. This deportation also led to the next step accelerating the events of Kristallnacht.

Poland played a large part in World War II, especially in the start. It was a hard time for the Poles, my late grandfather, George Burak experienced this first hand during his adolescent life. Many of these years were filled with resistance against unwanted powers.