During World War 2, the Nazi’s under Hitlers rule had made a decision which was to eliminate all of the Jews that were in Germany, and in German occupied territories. This was because they believed Jews to be contamination the pure, aryan-Germans. Nazi’s started sending the Jews to Concentration camps in 1938. Going to a concentration camp meant death, therefore Jews started trying to hide from Nazi officials or escape the camps. This was a dangerous task, and not everyone who did it survived.
One German born Jew, Marie Jalowicz, made around 80 tapes, narrating her experiences of running from the Gestapo, the secret police in Germany. She was only ten when Hitler was brought into power, but by 1941 both her parents had died, and she was
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At one point she was living under the shelter of a communist man and his sister. The man raped Marie, but she never fought back. She was just happy for the shelter. Finally Marie was taken in by a group of Dutch slave workers, and stayed with them until the Red Army liberated the ruins of Berlin in 1945. While they were set free, hundreds of Jewish Women were raped by the Russian soldiers, Marie was one of them. While hiding from Nazi’s, Marie had a pill induced abortune. And while she did not regret it, she felt immensely saddened for not being able to see her child. Yet, her will to live was so strong she would have done anything.
Some ordinary Germans fought to help the Jews avoid persecution, whether it was because of Christian charity, friendship, love, or because they simply did not agree with the politics that were being executed by the National Socialists. They provided the jews with hiding places, forged papers, food and supplies. The people tried to help Jews from being deported on trains, and escape the concentration camps. There was a priest who secretly was an escape agent, and even a police officer who helped tamper with papers to keep the Nazi’s off the Jews trail. Robert T Smallbones, A British consul general, brought the Jewish into the British consulate during the November riots in 1938. Around 48,000 Jews were able to escape to Great Britain.
There were some known
In 1938 the Nazis banned Jews from almost everywhere.The Nazis persecuted the Jews by banning them from public places and making them lose jobs. “The Nazis continued to segregate Jews from German society, banning them from public schools,universities, theaters, sports events, and “Aryan” zones”. Then Jews had to have a J stamped on their passports. The Nazis also destroyed Jewish places and killed close to 100 Jews.
Soon after World War II started, The Nazis created places such as the ghettos, concentration camps, and labor camps where they placed the millions of jews that they captured throughout the war. Those camps were in horrid living conditions and a lot of the jews were unable to make it out alive. Families were separated, people forced into harsh working conditions,
There were many Jews who chose to stay while others flee their home countries looking for shelter. “It was not until 1941 that official German policy encouraged Jews to leave the country by making life in Germany increasingly difficult for them. Jews were forbidden from working in certain professions and renting or owning homes in many places; they could not hold on to their financial assets and could not move freely” (America, 2017). As a result of these policies along with a hateful campaign filled with anti-Semitic propaganda and increasingly violent climate, life in Germany was impossible for many Jews.
From 1933 to 1945, hiding Jews was a massive event in Germany. Many Germans risked
Because Hitler inhabited most of Germany with his camps and army so that his genocide would be successful, the Jewish people that got the chance to escape ran to places like Poland and other parts of Europe. (GOTTFRIED 3) This brought destruction down upon their places of refuge. Many countries protected their boarders so that Jewish people could not seek shelter in their homeland and bring death and destruction to their country. (GOTTFRIED 4) Hitler created a bad reputation that followed the Jewish people wherever they went, and some
6 million jews were killed after world war 2 because the germans thought it was the jews fault that they had lost the war(The Holocaust). By 1945, the germans had set up concentration camps and had inserted the jews into them(The Holocaust). All jews were marked with a yellow star which caused mass hysteria. When the remaining jews were finally found they found it very hard to return home, they were starving to death, and they were very skinny to where they had to be rushed to the emergency room(The Holocaust).
The Jewish people have been one of the most persecuted groups in history since the days of Jesus, since the years of the Holocaust and still to this day (prezi.com). When the Nazis persecuted the Jews, one of the reasons given was the defeat of Germany in the First World War. The persecution of Jews reached its most destructive form in Nazi Germany, which made the destruction of the Jews a priority, culminating in the killing of approximately 6,000,000 Jews during the Holocaust from 1941 to 1945.
While in Germany, many Jewish people, such as Anne Frank and her family, went into hiding because Hitler was in power and was responsible for the massacre of primarily Jewish people, but also homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, and other individuals who had some
The citizenship of Jewish people slowly decreased as the German government gained strength and became more anti-Jewish. Jewish people had been normal students, homeowners, and citizens before the start of the Holocaust. Many had even fought for the German Army. Then before they knew it, they were being killed by the hundreds just because they were Jewish. The people who they had been friends with forever, turned on them and were trying to kill them. All Jewish people lost their rights, but many lost their lives.
During Hitler’s reign over Germany many Jews choose to flee the country in hopes of finding a safer place to live.
Beginning in March 1942, a wave of mass murder swept across Europe. During the next 11 months of 9 million Jews who lived in Europe before the Holocaust, an estimated ⅔ was murdered. An estimated 1 million children endured the Holocaust and only 5,000 survived. Children were targeted especially during the holocaust because they could grow up and be a new generation of the Jews. Although not many survived, the ones that did had an incredible story to be told, of how the Holocaust affected and changed their lives. Holocaust Survivor Jeannine Burk was shaped and changed by having to play Hide-and-seek throughout her entire life from the Nazis and suffering as also a lot of pain through Hitler’s domination.
As the Holocaust got bigger by moving into nearby countries [poland], the Jews realized they needed to leave but by that time it was too late (“Why Didn’t The Jews Leave?”). They ran like greased lightning. The War in Germany began in 1941 and at that point it became much more hard for anybody to get out of the country (“Escape from German”). “In 1941-1942, with the beginning of systematic shooting of Jews in the Soviet Union and the deportation of European Jews to extermination camps, escape literally became a matter of life and death,” (“Escape from German”). “Other measures that spurred decisions to emigrate in the early years of Nazi rule were the dismissal of Jews from the civil service and the Nazi-sponsored boycott of Jewish-owned stores,” (“German Jewish Refugees”). Most Jews waited around for a lot longer than they should of because most of them thought it would get better and due to the money situation. They were right out of the depression which means most people didn't have jobs and they thought it was only the spur of the moment thing, which was
During the Holocaust about 5,900,000 Jews were killed which is 63% of the Jews in Europe at the time (Holocaust Statistics). This statement easily shows that evil can be very strong however just like Hitler it will not last forever. There were many factors that lead this great evil to come to power and many things working against it.
They began with discrimination; then the Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted. Finally they were treated as less than human beings and murdered. During the Second World War the Nazi’s sought to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and to destroy its rich and diverse cultures. In 1941 there were about eleven million Jews living in Europe.
While Hitler kept Jews in the concentration camps, there were some Jewish and non-Jewish people that tried and stop this brutality or help the Jews. They knew what hitler was doing with the Jews and his plans.They tried to do something to try and help the people. Some of them where The White Rose society, Rose Blanche, and Resistances in the ghettos.