Narrative Essay About Being Jewish

Being in the camps was horrible. They smelt like dead flesh and were as cold as Antarctic. Ever since I was a kid, my mum said I had a big heart and the camps had proved that. Even though I was on the Germans side, I didn’t support anything they were doing; it was disgusting, to say the least. The Germans would shoot the Jew’s as if they were wild animals just running around waiting to be shot. Their faces so stiff, that they no longer seemed human themselves. Days spent hearing cries of despair and sadness, all caused by one guy who believed that, this is what they had deserved. A human life being put in the hand of another. I hated it, and the worst part was being able to do nothing but watch on and see hundreds, thousands lose their precious lives. It was silly and stupid, an unimaginable experience that doesn’t even sound real. How someone could be that evil is something that I could never comprehend.

I believe in having responsibility for my actions for the rest of my life. Responsibility can earn me a ton of things, such as money and treats. If I do an action or sometimes help my mother with an action, I gain a dollar or two or my mom gives me a treat, like Sweet Frog’s. In this case, I wouldn’t mind being responsible because it involves something that I care about dearly.

My father said I was safe here in Paris. But after the Nazis came, nobody was safe. I am the youngest of three children in my Jewish family. My Polish father was a former officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, which is amazing. I grew up speaking French just like my sisters did. Mom says it’s safer in Paris than in the poor town she grew up in. But everyone on the street just stares at me as if I were a curse. I tried to talk to them but they wouldn’t listen. I would have told my parents about how the people looked at me if I had the courage; I was too embarrassed. The school that I went to was special, funded by the Rothschild family, my parents said. My dad reassured us by telling me that we would be safe away

“Certainly, the world without the Jews would have been a radically different place. Humanity might have eventually stumbled upon all the Jewish insights. But we cannot be sure. All the great conceptual discoveries of the human intellect seem obvious and inescapable once they had been revealed, but it requires a special genius to formulate them for the first time. The Jews had this gift. To them we owe the idea of equality before the law, both divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of human person; of the individual conscience and so a personal redemption; of collective conscience and so of social responsibility; of peace as an abstract ideal and love as the foundation of justice, and many other items which constitute the

be a Jew. One must first answer the question of what is being Jewish? Is it

On October 7th, 1944 a Jewish prisoner group,"special detachment", revolted and blew up Crematorium IV killing many guards. I felt a spark of hope coming and all I could think that there was a chance to stop all of this. Sadly, my hopes we destroyed almost immediately. I had no choice but to join the group of German solders that killed all the revolters. As I partook in this I began to wonder who was truly the prisoner here. The innocent Jews who cry for liberation or the German who keeps them from it.

While we speak about the tenuous relationship between Christians and Jews dating back to the time of Christ, the seeds for the schism within Judaism may have been planted more than 500 years prior. Jeremiah was one of a group of distinguished prophets whose works became part of the Old Testament canon. The Jewish "wisdom" prophets lectured, warned and blamed all who would listen about the sins of their own people, the resulting punishments that God had prescribed for them, and what they had to do to get back into God's good graces.

The brisk wind rustled the leaves and the branches murmured. The morning had been chilly and opaque, with a curtain of drizzle sweeping across the plains. The decaying morality and despair of humanity has affected the weather, or have I just ceased being able to see colour?

As I rushed through the fields there was probably no use, about 20 germans rushing after me. Keep running I told myself, keep running. I’m just a kid why are they going after me. Why are there bombs being set off every night and missiles being launched and gunshots, and leaflets.

What does the term “propaganda” say, what does one think of, when approached with this term? Would one think it was of a positive of negative connotation? What about the association it had with the holocaust, would it then be considered negative? Did the Nazis use the role of propaganda overtly?

The Holocaust was one of the lowest points in the history of this world, which anyone and everyone can agree on. Although, without it I wouldn’t have been able to learn the following lessons.

On March 4th, 2018, I, Officer Albert, was working as a Police Officer for the Wichita State University Police Department. At approximately 0150 hours I was dispatched to Shocker Hall for a suspicious character report. The suspicious character was a white male wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt riding a skateboard. I arrived at approximately 0151 hours on the south side of Shocker Hall and walked down the south steps towards the courtyard. Officer Andrew Abbey was on scene talking with an individual fitting the suspicions character description, see Officer Abbey's report. I spoke with the individual later identified as Tyler Micol Dane Kuhn. Kuhn's eyes were glassy and his pupils were large. Kuhn's hands were shaking and he seemed confused. Kuhn wasn't able to

Growing up I never truly identified with my jewish community, yet I was forced to participate and be a part of it. From a young age I questioned the things that I was taught in school and by my family. I am very lucky that at the age of 8 my parent let me and my siblings decide if we wanted to continue practicing strict religion in our household or not. But although I had more freedom at home after that, I was still forced to attend religious schools, we still lived in a religious community and all my extended family still were extremely orthodox. Although I had the freedom to question things at home and get straight answers from my parents, at school I was not so lucky. Any question I ever asked any of my teachers eventually came back to the

Experienced Jewish immigrants seem to have a mocking nostalgia of “the old country”. They are Americans and strive to get away from any “greenish” behavior or associations, so they behave as if they never shared the experiences of new immigrants. We can see this in the second half of the first scene where fresh off the boat Navasky, whose purpose was to highlight the difference between a newcomer and an assimilated Jew. They mock his smell and journey, play with his hat, and then cackle as they coo over his conservatism and prayer before he drank. Experienced immigrants have built new lives and believe that they have no need of old country values or custom, even so much as to hate them, while newer immigrants cling to them not only because it is something familiar, but also because it is their culture. They believe that they should not have to sacrifice their beliefs just because it is the way of

What I did to deliver WOW: When I was in my boyfriend’s room the other day, I over heard them talking about something I felt I could help with. My boyfriend and his roommate did not have a fridge, and had been sharing with their sweet mates (who often weren’t in their room). Normally, this wouldn’t seem like such a big deal, but to the guys (who are both athletes here at Lindenwood) it was because they drink about four bottles of water a day, each. I realized that my mini fridge hadn’t even been plugged in yet, and that they would get more use out of it than I would. So my big wow was that I gave them my fridge, and then got it all cleaned out and set up in their room for them.