The Story Of Kristallnacht: The Night Of Broken Glass

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in New York City before September 11th, 2001. On 1911, approximately 140 to 147 people died in the fire which held no mercy for them. The day of the fire is commonly known as “The day it rained children”. The owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, hired immigrated women who were young, poor, barely educated, and spoke very little English. These women were overworked and very underpaid, and yet they could do nothing because they needed the money. Many Eastern European Jews were exposed to the revolutionary ferment in Russia and they brought a strong sense of justice and political will for the skirmish for social change in the United States.

In the events, Jews are separated with their family, observe death daily, and obtain a new identity as a survivor who has been deprived of positive human qualities. First step of dehumanization, Jews are separated with their family and are chosen to work and continue living based on their health. “I saw them disappear into

What if you were the Jew who were forced to leave their homes and their belongings behind? To work at the point of exhaustion, to wear the same thing year long, to see many people die in front of your own eyes. How would you feel? This is what was plaguing the Jews, during the war because Nazis targeted the Jews’ humanity, and slowly dehumanized them. The Nazis dehumanizing the Jews made them not believe in God plus made them give up hope.

problems because of what they had been through. At the end of the war The Jews

The Jews were forced out of their homes marching, not knowing their destination. "The following morning, we marched to the station, where a convoy of cattle wagons was waiting" (Wiesel 20). There were eighty people to a car, and barely enough food or water to survive. This challenges the faith because faith is about not knowing where exactly you will be, but trusting in God that you will be safe. However, the Nazi's had taken away the Jewish church, and they had no leader. Religion is based on structure and leadership, and without a church things start to fall apart, and people lose faith, or denial begins to take over, denial that anything bad will happen to oneself. The Jews begin to turn against each other in fear of seeing the truth of their fate. A lady in Eliezer's car begins screaming and yelling of flames and death. "Some of the young men forced her to sit down, tied her up, and put a gag in her mouth" (Wiesel 23). This is not a religious act, people do not do this to each other, so this demonstrates how they are losing faith and are in denial that they will all die

One other example of jewish people being mentally hurt is when Daniel and his father Joe seeing Erika and Daniels mom getting taken away from them and that the knew they wouldn't be able to see them again. Daniel eventually saw his sister while he was marching, she was sitting down and playing the violin. “Desperately i look for my family”(74). the germans basically made the jewish feel like they are slaves. They ordered the jewish people do things, if not they were

Kristallnacht comes the German name Crystal Night. Kristallnacht was an event where Germans persecuted Jews by burning down their synagogues, destroying their business, and stripping their rights away from them; these two nights prefigured the Holocaust.

The Jews were affected because they no longer had memories. “The beloved objects we had carried with us from place to place were left behind” (Wiesel 133). The Jews no longer had memories, separating the Jews from their past. The dehumanization process continued when the Jews were not considered people. This dehumanized the4 Jews

In fact, after the war, there were still many anti-Jewish riots that occurred. The followers of Judaism were also negatively impacted because they were left with little to nothing to live off

Prior to the horrific "Night of Broken Glass" Jews ' material comforts and mental health declined due to the early Nazi anti-Jew moves in 1933. On the 1st of April 1933, the SA organized a boycott of all Jewish shops and businesses. However, due to the lack of interest and customer loyalty to Jews ' businesses, the boycott failed. Along with the boycott, in 1933, Jewish civil servants, teachers, bankers, and lawyers were sacked and Race Science lessons taught that Jews were inferior. To add, in 1934, they were also banned from public places including swimming pools and parks. Along with their mental health being put at risk so were their material comforts. On September 15, 1935, The

these people with their lives and the lives of their loved ones, the Jews were “persuaded”

and I felt like an outcast” (Schloss 14). Jewish children and even adults were also hurt mentally because they didn’t know what was wrong with being Jewish. More than nine million people were affected either mentally or physically for just being Jewish. Persecution, hatred, and intolerance of Jewish people has hurt several

There were many things that happened that influenced the Holocaust. One of these things is The Night of Broken Glass. This was on November 9-10, 1938. On the Night of Broken Glass the Nazi’s looted stores, broke windows, and they set synagogues on fire. There were 119 synagogues on fire and 76 more destroyed. Also on this night there were jews beaten and some were even killed.(The Doom of Jewish Life in Germany)

This conjured thoughts of other devastating events people have to cope with, such as cancer, multiple sclerosis or any disease that affects a person’s way of life. There was a wonderful quote stated by the interviewee, Adi. “I felt that if you lose faith you give into evil." These words demonstrate, not only the emotions felt from someone who has dealt with the Holocaust, but someone who can no longer partake in their social ritual. When you take away a person’s occupation whether it be gardening, driving, or riding a bike, you’re taking away vital piece of the fabric that molds their identity. Consequently, when a person’s environment and lifestyle is altered so domestically, all they want is to regain normality, and to attain their previous

One of the most well known attacks on the Jews was known as Night of Broken Glass. On the November 9, 1938, violence against Jews broke out across Germany. The Germanys tried to make it appeared like the violence was an unplanned attack, set off by the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager. In two days, over 1,000 synagogues were burned, 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by. http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/kristall.htm