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Holocaust Dbq Essay

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There is no doubt about the fact that the Holocaust was a horrible time, but just how bad was life in the case of Jewish men, women, and even children. Life as they knew it changed forever during World War II. They were treated as extremely low class citizens. Just being alive was torture to them as the Nazis made their lives and every aspect of them into a living nightmare. Almost every situation relates back to the basics of life food, money, and a job. The life for Jews was harshly changed due to the Holocaust, but exactly made it so bad? The first and most important thing in life is food and water. The Nazis gave out ration cards which restricted the food that the Jewish families were allowed per day. According to document number four, …show more content…

As seen in document five, the Jewish businesses were boycotted by the Nazis. This forced the Jews to have slow if any income at their jobs. Therefore, they did not have any money to get what they needed to survive.
In document two, life in the ghetto is put into perspective compared to what we perceive as everyday life. Basic freedom was taken away with a wall surrounding the neighborhood that could not be climbed because of the “barbed wire and broken glass placed on top of the wall”. The Jews could not get out and it prevented them from smuggling even a crumb of food or any other essential.
Jewish children were raised in a harsh unforgiving life with little to no education (document 7) and extreme conditions that are too cruel to be processed. Barely any food and no fun. Kiids had no clue why they were being treated like this, they didn’t know anything in life but harsh treatment for doing nothing wrong.That isn’t how kids are supposed to live during their childhood. They should have fun and make friends and live life how it should be lived when you're a kid. All of that was taken away from them at a very young age. Live in the eyes of new children was nothing but horrid punishments and

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