Holocaust
“…I realized I didn’t have my prisoner’s cap. Any prisoner at morning roll call without his cap was shot .” What would it be like if your life depended on something as simple as whether or not your hat was in your possession? To have a simple twist in fate be the deciding factor in whether or not you were going to live? This was everyday living for some European Jewry. Six million people’s twist of fate ended tragically. To classify all of the Jew’s experiences - both survivors and the deceased- as similar is unfair, for many different factors played a role in their experiences from 1933 to 1945. As the Nazi’s hold on Europe was clenched tighter and tighter, a living Jew became more and more of a rarity. Throughout history Jews have been discriminated against, yet in 1933 things changed. No longer was a Jew looked at as religiously different, but now they were considered biologically different. Hitler’s rise to power in Germany changed life drastically for the German Jews. But the question arose, what was a German Jew (it is important to keep in mind this applies only to the Jews of Germany)? To begin the large-scale classification system, Germans were first broken up into two main groups,
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Approximate Word count = 1918
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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