Why Is Family Important In The Holocaust

Since the Nazi soldiers were male, they treated men and women prisoners in their camps with a significant amount of difference. Prisoners were forced to do pointless yet challenging labour for an indefinite time before they were sentenced to death. Upon arrival at the camps, Jews were divided into two different groups; one would group would live and the other would be sent to the gas chambers immediately. The labour intensive tasks proved to be quite brutal for women since they were not accustomed to such duties. Even pregnant women were not spared and many women miscarried because the hard labour had killed their unborn child. Those babies who were born were almost inevitably taken immediately and killed. There was no privacy in these camps and the women were continually being eyed by the lonely, watching soldiers. Some women were beaten or sexually harassed while in the camps and could do nothing to stop the horror. Their husbands, brothers and fathers were either dead or in a different part of the

One of the methods of dehumanization was separating families.”Men to the left, women to the right”(29). Hitler didn’t care about how the Jews felt. Jews were treated like force breeding farms for animals. They did not have a lot of food and bad living conditions. “The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions”(29). Jews weren’t considered humans and so they didn’t get to have human like possessions. Everything they owned was just taken away from them and they never got to see it again.

The Nazis’s dehumanized the jews by depriving them of basic human needs like family. When families first get to the camp the men and women, brothers and sisters, fathers and sons get separated from each other. The separation of families is shown on page 29 when an SS officer commanded, “Men to the left!

Alena Synjova once stated, “ I’d like to go away alone where there are other, nicer people, somewhere into the far unknown, there, where no one kills another. Maybe more of us, a thousand strong, will reach this goal before too long” (Volavková, 1994, p. 50). During the Holocaust, people craved opportunity to escape to a place where there were polite people and no one killed each other. The Holocaust affected everyone, ranging from the elderly to the young children, who were faced with horrific situations. They witnessed the death of the people around them and were forced to live under unmentionable conditions. The holocaust altered non-Jewish and Jewish

The Holocaust is a topic that some think of as a very essential part of history that students should learn about. On the other hand, some would argue that it is too severe for middle school students. Without a doubt, Nazis abused their large power and used it towards destruction and in so, violated civil rights and killed 6 million Jews. The Holocaust was a turning point in history that is only taught based on the judgement of schools. The Holocaust Museum in Houston says, “During the Holocaust religious, moral, and legal systems failed in deterring the dangers of prejudice.” This can compare to how there is a large debate on whether students should or shouldn’t learn about the Holocaust and topics similar to it. The Holocaust was a major part of history that has influenced many people and advanced the future to where we are now; thus, we should educate the the younger generation since teaching about the Holocaust enables you to advance into a better human being, students can use their critical thinking skills, and it honors those who have passed and survived.

Dehumanization took many different forms during the holocaust and you saw multiple examples of these forms in Night. One of the first things that would take place is the Nazis taking the identity of the Jews away. The Jews would have to get numbers tattooed into their left arm, no longer calling them by their first name or surname, but by the random, Nazi chosen number inscripted into them by a dirty, old tattoo gun. Everyone got a tattoo. Everyone also got their hair cut short by an old, dull, dirty razor that hadn't been cleaned in who knows how long and had cut countless others had before them. This made gender identification difficult by just looking since they had women and men separated a lot of the time. Which leads to the separation of families.

Whenever people think about the Holocaust, they think about Germany. They think that Germany as a country is responsible for the events that took place. But Germany was affected by the Holocaust too. People will always blame Germany for the Holocaust, even though some Germans did not support the Nazis and their ideology. The German population was greatly affected by the Holocaust in their everyday lives.

In the book Elie and his family was sent to a concentration camp and there the Nazis decided were the family members would be sent. The Nazis had decided that the mothers and sisters were to be separated from the men and then Elie said, “ Yet that was the moment when I parted from my mother.” This quote shows that the during the Holocaust the Nazi were dehumanizing the Jews by separating the Jewish families. Nowadays, people don't get separated by deportation unless there is a law broken because it's our right to have a family. It's not human if you get your family taken

The children could no longer go to school because they were Jewish. In Germans eyes Jewish people were bad. The children were often kidnaped or they were taken with their family to a camp. Many died on the way to the camps, they all traveled In small cattle cars usually with 80 other people. Many children also died on the way to gas chambers. The children would have to go through a

Relatives of Holocaust survivors will tell you the same three things that means the most to them. Family, your faith, and the country that took us in are some of the most important things for those who have struggled through such tragedies, be it the Holocaust or other atrocities around the world. Family is the most important member of the list. Family is an unbreakable bond that stretches across oceans and deserts and is the only thing on earth that instantly connects two people. I would kill and die for my family, as they truly are the most important things in my life. My parent’s unconditional love and support, makes me strive to be a better person and to make them proud. My Two brothers are hands down the most important things in

From details that I know about the topic of separation during the holocaust, was that a lot of Jewish family members were broken apart from each other. Most Jewish family members managed to stay hidden, changed their identities, etc. while the other remaining families were taken captive by the Nazis. For the members that were taken captive by the Nazis into concentration camps, they were not always placed with each other. Only luckily were 2 or 3 family members of the same gender placed in the same camp. Even while hidden from the Nazis, family members had to be careful when stepping outside of their safehouse for they can be caught by the Nazi troops noticing their Jewish star badge on their shirt. If this incident does occur of where a member

Kitty feels it is important to tell her story because she wants people to be more informed on the tragedies of the Holocaust and to prevent such tragedies from happening again. She states, “Those of us who survived have a duty to those who died. They are not here to speak: we must speak for them.” This shows her commitment as to why she feels it is up to the survivors of the Holocaust to tell the world about the atrocities that took the lives of six million Jews. In the documentary, she is showing the students around the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. She not only describes the horrors that she experienced daily,but she questions them and reflects on them. She describes how she manage to survive the horrific conditions of the camp. She states that your likelihood of surviving the camp is purely based on how lucky you can get.

On November 10, 1938 at 1:02 A.M. is when the Nazi’s chargered (Heydrich, 35). This night is called the Kristallnacht or the broken glass. “... business and apartments belonging to the Jews may be destroyed but not looted,” (Heydrich, 35). All Nazi officers burned down all the of the Jews businesses, homes, and their synagogues. Kristallnacht affected many Jewish lives from some aspects of their family, finance, and religion.

Most of the “camps and certain areas within concentration camps were designated specifically for female prisoners” (www.ushmm.org). Men during the holocausts who had businesses and rights were striped of all they had and were forced to hard labor. The men were forced to work until death, starvation was one leading cause of death in labor camps were men worked. Also diseases and disabilities also affected most men and how they live during the holocaust. Jewish men that were brought back form the infirmary were shown in pictures and a skeleton and looked as if the man had not eaten in a year and S.S soldiers considered them as fit to work. German citizens that helped Jews were also taken as prisoners and sent to camps until death. Anyone who survived through that living nightmare is a brave and strong person with having to see your family perish before your eyes and never seeing them again is a very tough thing to when you stay strong and never giving up until freedom. Most Jewish people that survived either had runaway and kept their identity secret for the German not to find out or survived by betraying their families to help the Germans. The Holocaust was a horrifying event that none would feel comfortable to talk about but by this topic we learn what happened to the life of Jewish men, women, and children and what their life was during the holocaust.

During the rise of Nazi power in Europe it was incredibly difficult to be part of a minority. Being part of a minority meant one was herded into ghettos where many starved, died of dysentery or were shot on the spot. From there the survivors of the ghettos were crammed into small cattle cars where they traveled for hours or even days on end without food or water. Once they reached the death camps the dead and dying would be left in the cars and the rest were put through selection. Men were sent one way. Women, children and elderly were sent another, usually towards the crematorium. The men were then sent to labor camps, where they were given minimal rations of food, one pair of clothes, skimpy shoes and a flimsy blanket (Berenbaum).