The White Rose Resistance

The article "The Children who Escaped the Nazis" by The editors of Scope tells the story of Jewish advocates, Kinder transport, and countless lives saved. As this article is taking places the Nazi party in Germany is swiftly taking power from Jews and restricting there rights. One of the people affected by this is Lore. Lore was born in Czechoslovakia and was raised while the Nazi party was starting to gain lots of power. In 1939 when Lore was very young the Nazis invaded her homeland, stripping her and her family of all of there rights. Lore recalls that at the age of 12 she could no longer swim in a public swimming pool. All of her rights were taken just because of her Jewish heritage. After Kristallnatcht (Night of Broken glass) Lore and

The lack of resistance and ignorance of the ordinary German population cost many million Jewish lives. The Nazi party’s desire for popularity and support meant that if there was a protest, actions would be taken to keep the public happy, or quiet, with minimal loss of reputation and status. In other words, it meant that the people could win. One successful attempt of protest proved that this theory would have worked. The Rosenstrasse Protest that occurred on the 27th of February 1943 led to the release of several hundred Jewish men from a Gestapo headquarters. This symbolic protest highlighted the fact that if the public were to protest, the execution of Jews could have been slowed or even halted. Despite this, the Rosenstrasse Protest remained the only large protest against the Holocaust throughout its entire duration. This means that the German population continued to ignore and become passive bystanders of the genocide happening around

It happened because of the killing of a German officer, Ernst vom Rath by for a Polish Jew called Herschel Gynszpan (Moeller 105). I witnessed the frightful attack by the Nazis on places related to the Jews such as synagogues, their religious sites, and cemeteries (Bergen “Chapter 5”). All their shops’ windows had been smashed broken. The once graceful streets filled with shops have now been replaced by burned debris and fractures of broken glasses. The Nazis did not only attack their shops and dwellings, but they had also arrested and even murder huge number of Jews (Bergen “Chapter 5”). I saw a young girl being hurled down from a building. I wanted to help her but my timidity had locked both my feet on the ground. An owner of a shop had also been captured by the Stormtroopers, which separated him from his crying wife and daughter. At the sight of this, I thought of Bauer and became frightened for his condition. I leaped to his store, only to find an abandoned and distorted place. Fire has consumed Bauer’s shop, shelf was overthrown, glasses were shattered into pieces, and the safety of Bauer is the only one that I can hope for. When will this violence end? It saddens me to know that Germany is no longer the country it used to be, for racialism has covered it, and ‘unity’ has lost its

You would think, a young boy, sent to different camps, fighting to live, gets luckily abandoned by the surrendering Nazis and saved by the allies. But, the story is so much more. The boy is taken from everything he knows and loves and has to find a way to live. He is left with nothing and everything valuable is taken away. He is then marked as an object and treated worse than a

“You call me misbeliever, cutthroat dog, And spet upon my Jewish gaberdine” (Shakespeare 34). Groups and people have helped resist during the Holocaust which helped the affected people and it may be important for young people to learn from these responses.The Armee Juive were a French Jewish partisan group during the Holocaust who participated in the 1944 uprising and smuggled money from Switzerland to help Jews escape and hide into neutral Spain. The Jewish resistance groups were the most direct form of Jewish opposition against the Nazis during the Holocaust. Attacking the German military trucks and trains, the Armee Juive conducted missions to sabotage Nazis and rescue Jews. The warsaw ghetto uprisings where hundreds of Jews fought against Germans and disobeyed them is an example of a resistance effort that was employed during the Holocaust.

Peter, Margo and Anne were captured by German soldiers. Anne and Margo were in a concertation camp. Peter was forced to walk the death walk.

The treblinka uprising was one of the most successful revolt during the holocaust. The jews of treblinka knew that their own demise was coming sooner by the day. Everday their strength as well as hope decreased. Rather than be worked

Another student gave a presentation about the bravery of The White Rose resistance movement led by German college students and siblings, Hans and Sophie Scholl, who openly protested Nazism in Germany and who the Nazis executed as a result. The act of resistance struck a chord with many

During the Holocaust their were many groups of resistance, but one in particular was the underground who used resistance to fight the Germans. This group faced many challenges but still fought hard to protect their culture. The underground used armed resistance to receive supplies, resists the Germans that try to kill them, and to get the community not to be passive while facing obstacles like making kids and women smuggle supplies, risk families lives, and trying to meet in private to plan.

If there is any matter of defining Jewish resistance during the Holocaust it is with a quote by Maya Angelou, “You may tread me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I’ll rise”. Though these words are not from a Jew, it is still implied to their resistance. On the year of 1933, during World War II, Nazis forced Jews to relocate themselves into the ghettos. While in the ghettos, Nazis made every effort to dehumanize Jews in forms of extermination, liquidations, shootings, and many unexplained cruelties. Once the community had enough they reacted with resistance. In order to maintain their humanity, Jews used armed and unarmed resistance.

All of them were sent to jail or prison or punished to some degree. Some fought for the people being drafted into the war, some fought for the cost of the people paying for the war, and some fought to show the effects of the war. Whether it was a man or a women, all of these activist risked their lives to show their perspective on a cause. Harold Bing, Catherine Marshall, Fenner Brockway, Helen Crawfurd and Eugene Debs all did not want to “engulf our country in the greatest holocaust that the world has ever known” (Ruggiero,2003). Although the War did happen, because of these five brave men and women, the people of the United States were more prepared for what was to become of World War

This also proves that had the Jews stood up for themselves then the Nazis would not be able to continue to do the horrible things that they were doing. Something that is stated in the except from night is, and then one day all foreign Jews were expelled from Siget. This show that the Jews didn’t stand up for themselves and the Nazis came back to do even more evil. This also shows that even after the Nazis continued to come back and eventually they got everyone. In the end, if you don’t stand up for yourself then the evil will continue to terrorize your

Many people know know all about the Holocaust. They know all about Hitler, and about who was persecuted. But what most people don't know is all the resistances that we bent on stopping this discrimination. One of which, was The White Rose. They were a group of German students who went against the Nazis.

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.

From 1933 to 1945, Germany was under the leadership of Adolf Hitler and the Nationalist Socialist German Party, or Nazi Party. The group promoted German pride and Anti-Semitism, hate towards Jews, and expressed disgust towards the Treaty of Versailles, a peace document signed between Germany and the Allies at the end of World War 1 (History.com Staff). In order to grow his movement, Hitler recruited Germans for his armies, his factory workers, and his death camp guards. Because of this, it was easy to assume that all Germans supported the Nazi dictatorship and the ideas they preached. However, throughout this time period many Germans of different political and religious beliefs came together to protest against the regime.