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Examine the challenges faced by Jewish people in hiding as well as those who hid them during WWII
During WWII, Hitler, and the Nazi party started persecuting the Jews because of Hitler’s anti-Semitic views as well as because of being blamed as a scapegoat for Germany’s loss during WWI. These Anti-Semitic views, which created an anti-Semitic Germany, forced many Jews into hiding. Some of the Jewish people went into hiding themselves but some needed help from others. These people and organisations aided the Jewish throughout the Holocaust. These brave heroes risked being punished by imprisonment or death to save those in need.
During the beginning of the war, the Nazis enacted many tactics to force Jewish people into hiding. These
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The Enabling Act was a piece of legislation that essentially allowed Hitler to implement his own laws. This is what helped Hitler establish the Nazi government. The second way the Nazis helped force the Jews into hiding was through the Nuremberg race laws. The Nuremberg race laws were first announced at a parade by the Nazis in Nuremberg. The Nuremberg race laws were to prohibit breeding with Jewish people to breed them out. This was one of the least severe of the ways the Nazis were trying to eradicate the Jews. This law was the start of one of the largest mass genocides in history. The Nazis also tried to eradicate Jewish people by destroying their businesses. The boycotting of Jewish businesses started on Saturday, April 1, 1933. The Nazis displayed anti jew propaganda as well as graffitiing “JUDE” on their windows (fig 1.), …show more content…
When the Nazi party started persecuting the Jewish population, there were people who risked their lives to protect the lives of the persecuted Jewish citizens. Zegota was a group of Jewish and Polish people in Nazi-occupied Poland. Władysław Bartoszewski formed Zegota. Władysław Bartoszewski (1922– 2015) was one of the co-founders of Zegota. Soon after the Nazi occupation, he was sent to Auschwitz. After being freed, he set up Zegota. Another key figure in the resistance against the Nazis and a member of Zegota and the smuggling of Jewish people was Irena Sendler. Irena Sendler (1910–2008) – Irena Sendler was a member of Zegota. She was a social worker in Warsaw. She was put into a ghetto during the war. She used people she knew to smuggle to money, food, false identities, and medical supplies to those in need. Under a new name, she smuggled children out of the ghettos. She did this under the veil of medical examinations. At first, Sendler just supplied resources, however, she soon realised that the Jews needed to be smuggled out of the Ghettos. After the Jews were transported to concentration camps, Sendler continued to smuggle Jews out. She came in contact with Zegota, who supplied her money through post boxes. The owner of a laundry which was a Zegota mailbox gave the SS her name. She was captured by the SS and tortured, however, never revealed anything. She was freed by a bribe to the SS by a colleague on the
Zegota which was a codename for Polish Council to Aid Jews helped Irena escape so she wouldn’t get shot. Zegota did that by bribing the executioner. Irena didn’t know that Zegota did that for her and she was very surprised when she found out. Later on while the war was still going on Irena stayed hidden just like the children
James Hillstrom 2/2/23 LA8 accel The Heroes of the Holocaust During the Holocaust, an estimated 26,000 people hid Jews in their basements, attics, and anywhere in between. In the Book Thief and in the chapter “The Secret Room” in the novel The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom many people risked their lives to help the Jews. Nazi Germany was a very dark and horrific place during the Holocaust. There, Germans had all the power and Jews were treated inhumanely. Many of them could not even show their faces or they would be punished.
Sendler was originally sneaking in food and medicine for the people of the ghetto but that was not enough and Irena wanted to do more but didn’t know how. Zegota was a secret organization that snuck jews out of the ghetto and the answer to Irena Sendler’s problem. Sendler joined and became the head of the Child Department. Although Zegota was secret at the time, they
Harper Godfrey Mrs. Garrett English 7 28 March 2023 Irena Sendler - Holocaust Heroine The Holocaust was a time period from 1939-1945, during World War II. It was a mass killing of Jewish People, Romas (Gypsies), Homosexuals, and the mentally and physically disabled people at the time. It was fueled by hate and the Nazi Party in Germany, run by Adolf Hitler.
In the beginning stages of the Nazi regime, the Nuremberg Laws were put into place. These laws included social and economic rules for those with a Jewish ancestry. Some of the social rules were the ID badges Jews had to wear (Doc. G), prohibition of relationships between Aryans and Jews (Doc. D), loss of access to public spaces (Doc. D), and the end of schooling for Jewish children (Doc. H). The worst of the economic laws happened
(Source E). many young people in the Warsaw Ghetto formed an organisation called the Z.O.B, a Polish name for the Jewish Fighting Organisation. This organisation was led by Mordecai Anilewicz who issued a proclamation which called for the Jewish people to resist getting into railroad cars. (Source E). In January 1943, Warsaw Ghetto fighters fired upon the German troops as they attempted to round up another group of ghetto inhabitants for deportation.
The holocaust begin in 1933 and ended in 1945. The Jewish people were targeted by the nazis because Hitler and the nazis blamed Jewish people for the cause of WWI to cover up the fact of how bad they were. The way Jewish people were discriminated against was by the government they would use their power to target and exclude Jewish people from German society. First, they would strip them of their rights.
Gavin Arbic Mrs.Onstad AP Language and Composition 16 December 2022 Night The Holocaust was the mass murder of millions of Jewish people. Jewish people were forced into labor camps and forced to work for the Nazi army. When they arrived at the camps, they were separated from their families.
The destinies of several nazi individuals all throughout the last of World War II are spread wherever the guide regarding what transpired. Many took a sign from their devoted pioneer, Adolf Hitler, and submitted suicide to evade catch and discipline. These war hoodlums could never need to confront their violations. Others fled the nation and went up against expected characters in an attempt to escape experts. While a large portion of the individuals who fled were caught, there is entirely a main 10 most needed rundown of Holocaust war lawbreakers today.
The goals that they accomplished helped save thousands of people inside the ghettos who faced the tragedies of the Holocaust. “Key to these efforts were the women and girls who smuggled weapons, communications, food, medicine, and people, in and out of the ghettos by passing as Aryan or Polish.” (Brenner) The multitude of women that risked their safety and others' lives in order to save as many as they did, shows the true fearlessness that was inside these women. “Yet it is a story of incredible bravery exhibited by a group of Jewish girls – some as young as fifteen years old – and women in their late teens and early twenties. These girls braved danger and death in order to serve as the lifeline between Jewish communities throughout war-torn Europe.”
Grant Myers Professor Mueller WRTR 1313 March 1st, 2023 Zealous Takeover The fourth chapter of the book Why? Explaining the Holocaust, author Peter Hayes highlights the Nazis' concern with racial purity and their belief that the "Aryan" race was superior in his explanation of the Holocaust. The Nazi party came to believe that in order for the German nation to survive and rule, specific ethnic groups had to be eliminated. This chapter discusses Jewish and other targeted communities' reactions to the unfolding events of the Holocaust, including any attempts at evasion or resistance.
“Żegota helped save some 4,000 Polish Jews by providing food, medical care, relief money and false identity documents for those hiding on the so-called "Aryan",” ( Wallach). the people who worked for the Zegota gave up their time and helped year round and had a lot of empathy towards the anyone who was persecuted by the Nazis. largest cell of Żegota (Felicja) was led by Mieczysław Herling-Grudziński, a wealthy lawyer, who hid 600 Jews”( Wallach). “Both Jews and non-Jews sheltered Jews during the Shoah,” (Tomaszewski). “Over 700 Polish heroes, unlawful death by Germans as a result of helping and sheltering their Jewish neighbors,”
She was an idol and hero to many Jews during the WW2 and
People Who Helped in Hidden Ways Topic: Germans that helped Jews during World War II Working thesis statement: Helping Jews was very dangerous in Nazi Germany during World War Two because of Hitler’s bigoted nationalism, yet numerous Germans civilians and soldiers assisted a Jew in some way during the time of war. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel’s fictitious family and friends help Jews in the same ways that real life Germans helped Jews to hide and escape during World War II. Rolling Introduction Introduction Paragraph #1 Introduction Paragraph #2 Religious intolerance and persecution of Jewish people was common in Nazi Germany; however, there were some Germans that helped Jews despite the dangers. Some brave German soldiers and
Jews were carted away into prison or segregated areas by the cartful each day on the streets. Furthermore, Jews were not allowed to do simple actions, such as take pictures or play sports. They were regarded by the government as “subhuman”. The hate grew even stronger on November 19, 1938 when the Nazis destroyed every synagogue or Jewish owned store in Germany. Hitler’s book Mein Kampf became propaganda which allowed him and his National Socialist Party to rise to power.