The Anti Jewish Actions Taken By The Nazi Party

First, the Hungarian police made every Jewish family hand over their gold, jewelry, and any other valuables. If they refused to cooperate and didn't hand over their valuables they would've faced death. The Jews were then given restrictions on where they could go and what they could do. They no longer had the right to go to cafés and restaurants, to travel by the rail, to attend synagogue, and couldn't be on the streets after 6 o'clock at night. Along with all the restrictions, Jews were forced to wear the yellow star everywhere they went. By the Jewish people giving up their belongings and allowing the restrictions they showed self-deception. For example, some Jews felt that wearing the yellow star wasn't a huge deal because it wasn't hurting anyone and it wasn't lethal. They believed everything was still going to be okay because nothing too serious had happened yet and things were still going to get better.

In the 1940’s, the typical way to attain News is by radio, so it is a mistake if one takes the only news source he or she has lightly. In Night the Jews of Sighet perform this mistake by ignoring the change of power to Fascist. During the time Germany invaded Hungarian territory, Ellie and his family received terrifying news of how the Fascists are treating the Jews. The Budapest news reported this: “The Jews in Hungary are living in an atmosphere of fear and terror. There are anti-Semitic incidents every day, in the streets, in the trains. The fascists are attacking Jewish shops and synagogues. The situation is getting very serious” (Wiesel 7). Here and there, anxiety begins to stir up, but in a while, confidence begins to settle right back in. Accepting that their Hungarian brothers were being persecuted may have led the Jews to escape but they deny that anything of major significance could happen to them. An additional form of

Eliezer and the rest of the Jewish community were evacuated from their homes in Sighet. The Jews were not able to keep any objects that had meaning to

Day by day the Nazi’s would come and take people off the streets and they would disappear and never return. Adolf Hitler had been in power and declared that Europe would be Jew free. From this point on, Yanek and the rest of the Jewish population in Europe had been hiding, in fear of the Nazi’s.

Less than 3 days later, German troops had come into Sighet and for 3 days, Jews were not allowed to leave their house. A few days later, they were told that Jews had to wear a yellow star. Then, the ghettos were created. I how fast everything happened very interesting. In a matter of a week, German troops came in and turned a city into 2 ghettos. Months after that, Elie’s father attended a meeting, where he was told that transports were coming. He told the people of the ghetto to pack a bag and prepare food. In the morning, the Jews were called outside and at 1:00, they left for their journey. Elie’s family was not leaving for 2 days. When that day came, they were told that they were only moving ghettos, not leaving town. The ghetto his family was forced to walk to was deserted. Following that, they walked to the station, where they were crammed into cattle cars with some bread and water. They traveled for over 3 days. One women had started to lose it; she hallucinated that there were fires and screamed. They arrived at Auschwitz and smelled the burning

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

The Jews of Sighet have an irrational ability to deny reality. The Jews are constantly in denial, disputing any bad news that came their way. The Germans were closing in on Jews all over the country, “ Yet [the remaining Jews] were not worried. Of course [they] had heard of the fascists, but it was all in abstract. It meant nothing to [them] than a change of ministry” (Wiesel 9 emphasis added). It’s almost as if the Jews of Sighet live in their own world of denial. Up until that point, countless Jews had been deported, yet the rest still refused to see the truth. The news of fascists assaulting Jews all over the country “spread though Sighet like wildfire…[but even then] optimism soon revive” (9). Even though the Nazis have passed many edicts

Starting off in Sighet - a quiet and simple town located in Transylvania - Eliezer and his family live untouched and anxiety free. No suspicion of their world crumbling down is present; even with warnings from Moishe the Beadle pleading “Jews, listen to me! That’s all I ask of you. No money. No pity. Just listen to me!” (Page 7), the Jews of Sighet are left carefree. Anxiety does not come until many decrees are passed and a very, very real threat is brought upon the

Women and children were beat and men were murdered and rounded up to go to concentration camps. These attacks came after Herschel Grynszpan shot a member of the German Embassy. In two days, over 250 synagogues we burned, 7,000 Jewish businesses were looted and dozens of Jewish people were killed.

Summary: This article was an introduction to the Holocaust. The German Nazi’s thought that the Jews were a community. Not only the Jews were targeted, anyone with a racial inferiority was targeted. For example, although the Jews were the main threat the gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses, and homosexuals and the disabled were also targeted. The Holocaust was a way to decrease the Jewish population; the final solution was to murder the Jews of Europe or anyone that was a threat to their German culture. Many died of incarceration and maltreatment. During the war they created ghettos, forced-labor camps between 1941 and 1944 the Nazi German Authorities would deport the Jews to extermination camps where they were murdered in gassing facilities. May 7, 1945 the German armed forces surrendered to the allies.

The Germans were pushing the Jewish community towards death to see who survived. The Passover ended, “the curtain rose” (Wiesel, 2008) and the Germans “arrested the leaders of the Jewish community” (Wiesel, 2008). Elie states, “from that moment, everything happened very quickly. The race toward death had begun” (Wiesel, 2008).

On March 19th, 1944, the Nazi’s invaded Hungary. Soon afterwards, Jewish families, like the Davidovitz’s, where forced to wear yellow armbands with the Star of David on them. Shortly after that, the Jews went to go live in the ghettos, overcrowded living areas with appalling living conditions. After about two weeks, those living in the ghettos were told they were taking a trip into Germany for work and to pack their things. Ibi, aged nineteen, was

Survival in Auschwitz written by Primo Levi is a first-hand description of the atrocities which took place in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. The book provides an explicit depiction of camp life: the squalor, the insufficient food supply, the seemingly endless labour, cramped living space, and the barter-based economy which the prisoners lived. Levi through use of his simple yet powerful words outlined the motive behind Auschwitz, the tactical dehumanization and extermination of Jews. This paper will discuss experiences and reactions of Jews who labored in Auschwitz, and elaborate on the pre-Auschwitz experiences of Jews who were deported to Auschwitz and gassed to death on their arrival, which had not been

Three days later, optimism still present, the Jews still refused to believe that God would let dreadful things occur to them even when “German army vehicles made their appearance on their streets” (9). The towns “impressions of the Germans were rather reassuring” (9) at that time, on the contrary of the bloodcurdling conceptions they later gained when the reality of the terrors of Germans had cropped up. Months later, Elie and the other Jews’ faiths become warped when they come back down to earth and the Germans true intentions strike as they enter their long expedition in the death camps.

2). Even though this was not a violent treatment of the Jews, it was an attempt to bankrupt and dehumanize them of everything they had worked for their whole lives (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). As a result, Jews became a segregated people. They had to ride on buses and trains only in the seat that were clearly marked for them (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). Jewish children were allowed to be bullied at school in an attempt to keep them from coming to school. Hitler used this to brand the Jews as a lazy people (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). The Nuremberg Laws passed in 1935 gave even more power to the Nazis and took away more dignity of the Jews. The Jews were stripped of their German citizenship and marriages between Jews and non-Jews were not allowed (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). At this point, the Jews who could afford to pay a fine to leave the country were allowed to do so, but the ones who could not afford it had to stay behind and were not allowed to get food or medicine (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). Hitler’s campaign against the Jews escalated in 1938 with “Krystalnacht” – The Night of the Broken Glass (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). After a Nazi diplomat was found shot to death, Hitler began a seven day war of terror against the Jews (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). Shops that were owned by Jews were destroyed and robbed, homes and synagogues burned