Polish Jew Interview Essay

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H O L O C A U S T B Y M A Y C E H U S S E I N 1. T E L L T H E S T O R Y : Script of the interview with Isaac McMillan (Polish Jew that survived the Holocaust) This interview took place on the 8th of May 1960 in Warsaw, Poland. Exactly fifteen years after the end of World War II. What was it like growing up as a Jewish? I was only seven years old when I came home from school crying one day and my grandpa picked me up and sat me on his knee. He asked me why I was crying and I told him it was because the kids at school kept calling me a filthy Jew. I looked up to him and he said, “Never let anyone bring you down just because they don’t like that your Jewish.” He told me that there has always been hostility toward Jews, even long before the Holocaust–even as far back as the ancient world, when Roman authorities destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and forced Jews to leave Palestine. People…show more content…
He believed that Germans should have enough ‘living space’ and that only people with German or Aryan blood should be allowed to rule and live in Germany. He maintained the idea that those of non-German descend should have no say in Germany and Jewish people could not be German. Hitler believed that communism was a threat to his nation and thought that it was a Jewish invention, only adding fuel to his hatred of Jews. He believed that humans belonged to a hierarchy of numerous racial groups where anyone that was tall with light brown or blonde hair and light brown or blue coloured eyes were part of the ’master race’. In order to reach this objective he needed to exterminate millions of people who he thought were racially inferior (calling them sub-humans) including Jews, Russians, Serbs, Poles, and the sick and elderly, as they would only drain the essential resources of the ‘master

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