Trials And Tribulations Of The Holocaust

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The Holocaust The Holocaust, in simple text, was a terrible event that resulted in the genocide of a proud population, the Jewish community. The Holocaust will forever scare the history of the men. Before Yiddish 399, I did not know a lot about the Holocaust. All I knew was the Jewish community was slightly oppressed in the beginning of the 1930’s to be suffer horrific tormenting well into the 1940’s. Through Yiddish 399, I am now able to discuss personal trials and tribulations of the holocaust, along with being able to discuss of how the Jewish community was oppressed due to the information I learned through the discussions in class, the novels, along with the films and documentaries. One of the first things I learned during Professor…show more content…
Dr. Jacobs was able to discuss how these laws originally came into place. We first discussed how in the early 18th century there was an Emancipation of the Jewish community, allowing Jews to become citizens and own property. About mid-nineteenth century, Anti-Semitism of Jews was beginning to rise again and this eventually led to the end of the emancipation of the Jews community in German in 1993 (lecture Jacobs). German protestors at the time, wanted to ban same sex marriages between the “non-Aryans” and the “Aryan” race, but this was not fully enforced until 1935 when the Nuremburg laws officially passed. This Law was to be known as “The protection of German Blood and Honor”(Lecture). The other big law in which the Nuremburg Laws enforced was the “The Reich Citizen Law.” The purpose of this law was to completely separate the non-Jews and pure German blood citizens. At this point in time, I would really like to know how the Jewish population handled these laws. I have thought about it lot if I was a live during that time, if I would try to organize some type of protest or rebellion against the Nazi Party. I understand how the Nazi Party was very intimidating at the time, but its hard for me to wrap my head around that more of the Jewish population did not stand up for their…show more content…
This movie was called, “Steal a Pencil for Me.” It was a story of the hardships Jack and his soon to be wife Ina spent their years in concentration camps, one day hoping to reunite and be together again. It shows the hardships Jack hard to go through, and the measure he went through just to steal a pencil. This movie shows a very high emotions through out the movie, and how those motions were able to keep Jack and Ina
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