Write An Essay About The Holocaust

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In my report i will be talking about how the Holocaust and how the Jews came up and how they survived this horrible event. Jews was being suffered and punished just because of what they believed in and the Germans put them in camps called concentration camps for a punishment. During this event, the Jews lost many people but they died for their culture so most of them died as martyrs.
It all started on May, 1945 when allied forces liberated the Netherlands in. There was a law that was passed by a royal decree that established policy guidelines for the reunification of Jewish parents with children hidden in Holland during the war. This law came about because they wanted to take care of all the children and they did not want to have kids starving …show more content…

Government ordinances still commonly defined and restricted the Jewish quarter. Jewish people spoke Yiddish, and had a common language which they used among themselves and did not expect Christians to understand. Laws since 1215 had required Jews to wear distinctive clothes.(Deborah Dwork, pg10-20) The riots, or another name would be pogroms, against Jews in the middle ages were given a theological justification. These riots had little religious content. Jews and other groups were caught in the political struggle. Jews were not the only group in medieval Europe that depended on royal protection and not let the people to be identified with secular power. In the massacre of the Albigensians lay the first triumph of the Inquisition an arm of the Church established in the thirteeth century to expunge heresy and elluminate heretics. Heretics, Christians who rejected church dogma and therefore the authority of the Church, were a much greater than the Jews. The Jews had a covenant with God, they were to be preserved, but preserved in

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