The Holocaust: Attitudes Towards The Jews

Intolerance Essay How would you feel if you were treated unfairly because of the color of your skin, or your religion? People all over the world face this unfair intolerance. The definition of intolerance is unable or unwilling to endure. This means that not all people can handle the fact that others are different, so it causes them to show hostility to a certain group or race of people.

During the Holocaust, The Jews suffered severely because of the Germans. The Holocaust took place in Eastern Europe and Germany from January 30th, 1933 to May 8, 1945. Hitler’s German Nazi army evacuated Jews from their homes and relocated them in the ghetto or labor camps. One man, Oskar Schindler was able to save 1,200 Jews by employing them in factories where they were protected from Germans.

Abraham’s hair blew in the gentle breeze. Today was the day, he thought as he walked on the soft ground. Jews suffered for a big part of history, religion was a part of it. That event was called the Holocaust and it took place around World War II. A jew’s religion shows understanding and empathy for what took place during the Holocaust.

In writing the book “The Good Ole Days: The Holocaust as Seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders”, Ernst Klee successfully illustrates, historically, that the citizens of Nazi Germany played many roles, had similar motives for participating, and mostly had an awareness of the cruelty and barbarity of their actions during the Shoah. Ernst Klee, through first-hand accounts in diaries, photographs, letters and reports, successfully exposes the events of the holocaust and the actions of the persons involved. In accordance with the title, Klee highlights that there were many roles that individuals played during the Shoah including perpetrators which can be subdivided into those who gave orders and those who followed them, bystanders, and the very few who stood against the regime. Klee includes accounts and diary entries from individuals such as Otto Ohlendorf who was head of Einsatzgruppe D, police officials from many sections including one from

This essay will attempt to explore the role of the individual in the larger historical event of the Holocaust carried out by the 1933 Nazi Germany. Explicitly, this paper will make an effort to further examine Primo Levi’s classic memoir of the Holocaust, The Reawakening. The contention here will be to look into the role of the individual, both as victim and as persecutor, in which is paramount in historical events of major magnitude. Additionally, several correlations and important references will be made to Primo Levi’s first “ouvrage,” Survival in Auschwitz, the companion volume to “The Reawakening.” Equally, “The Reawakening / The Truce, “is a deep echoing reminder of the humanity we must share with others despite atrocity.

Dehumanizing is the taking away of human qualities. All of the Jews were dehumanized during the Holocaust. The Nazis dehumanized the Jews by loading them into cattle cars, tattooing them, and stripped them all naked. Eliezer and all of his fellow Jews were loaded into cattle cars like animals (98). They were loaded into car by the hundred.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -George Santayana. Any man who does not know what happened in history is doomed to repeat it. This means that there is relevance in studying history, the Holocaust was one of the most despicable times in history and nobody should have to live through that after we already know it happened and how to prevent it.

The Holocaust dates back in 1933 to 1945 and is notoriously known for its mass killing and persecution of six million Jews. Jews were considered as an inferior race to the racially superior Germans, as Jews were blamed for Germany’s problems of war debt. This racial discrimination further resulted in the horrendous genocide of Jewish citizens. While this killing and capturing of Jews seemed nearly impossible to avoid, audacious individuals that were not Jewish risked their lives to help rescue seized Jews, despite the severe punishments of doing so. These heroic men and women are referred to as righteous gentiles.

The Heros of the Holocaust: The Righteous Among Nations Although the German race as a whole is often blamed for the Holocaust, some Jewish citizens may have not been able to survive without their non-Jewish neighbors. Non-Jewish persons who strongly benefited the life of someone being persecuted during the Holocaust, are know as and rewarded the title, “Righteous Among Nations”. To be awarded this honor, one must have actively aided a Jewish person during the Holocaust, purely out of compassion rather than any means of personal gain. Those declared Righteous Among Nations in many cases put the lives of Jews before their own.

They ran. On January 30, 1933 the Jews started fleeing, hiding, and hoping that no one would find families concealed in secret annexes. The Holocaust is one of the most dreary times on this planet. Back then, technology was not as good as it is now. All people had was a paper and pen, with that paper and pen these people wrote whatever they wanted privately.

Nationalism as stated in our textbook is the idea that members of a shared community called a “nation” should have sovereignty within the borders of their state. Racism is the belief that certain races of people are by birth inferior or superior to others promoting hatred and discrimination to others based on race. Some have misinterpreted the term nationalism and turned it into an excuse to attack other groups of people. We can see it clearly in the Holocaust and how the Japanese treated their “inferiors”.

Brief Background: My great-grandma, Ruth Trumble, is 87 years old and suffers from minor alzheimer's disease. Her responses to the questions I asked her would sometimes vary and often led to a fair amount of confusion. With the assignment of this project I began to think about the fact that in just a few years time, these personal interviews won’t be possible. With that in mind, I took down my great-grandma's words with the goal of learning about how the war affected her while she is still capable of providing me with the information.