In addition to the physical suffering that they had to endure in concentration camps. During the Holocaust, the Jewish people were subjected to dehumanization through various ways such as forced labor, starvation, and cruel
Schindler’s List displays this by showing how the Jews were sent to forced labour camps such as the Plaszow. When they arrived to these labour and concentration camps, they were separated by gender as told “men to the left, women to the right”, this separated families causing more effective discomfort to the Jews. In the labour camps, many Jews were shot often resulting in death because they were not working to the satisfaction of the Nazis or SS officers who were in charge of that labour camp. If any Jews were seen as unhealthy they were sent to death camps. During this stage of the holocaust many Jews were
They were treated equally, but not in the way someone wants equality. In the very beginning of the book Wiesel said, “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (Wiesel 6). How can the soldiers have the stomach to shoot machine guns and infants? Was it forced or did they not mind? One of the many reasons the Holocaust is haunting to everyone.
Throughout the Holocaust the Jewish people were dehumanized by inhumane conditions and brutal treatment. For example, the Jews were dehumanized through violence. When the Jewish people were in the concentration camps or killing centers, they were constantly abused by the SS guards. “Count the blows.
Hitler sent Jews to concentration camps for labor in which many people like Kitty Hart-Moxon were also there. He made them work and when he felt like they weren’t useful anymore, they would be sent to die in gas chambers while being told they were going to be “taking a shower”. Living conditions in concentration camps were horrible with many
Children during the Holocaust were targeted because they were weak and small, and the Nazis wanted strong and independent Jews who were willing to work, but some children were strong and were able to work in labor camps. The lives of children inside the camps grew up with the grim memories of being separated from loved ones by death and torture. Hitler’s goal was to destroy a whole entire race and by targeting the kids, this would be a faster way of killing many innocent Jews. Depending on the age of the child and the gender, would determine whether or not that child would live because the Germans would rather prefer the boys over girls. The boys were known to be more stronger and more independent than girls, that is why girls would be separated
During the Holocaust, the Nazis didn’t necessarily single out children because they were kids; it was more that they were less strong and couldn’t work or because they had something else wrong with them that meant they had to be taken care of. So there for kids were killed at the hands of the Nazis. some children got targeted due to racial grounds. Other kids got targeted because of physical and mental health problems because the Nazis didn’t want to have to deal with helping them. Some kids got targeted because they were under the age of 12 and couldn’t work.
Some were put in gas chambers others were shot. This happened to mostly the weak elderly or the young kids, babies were thrown and shot at in the air with no compassion. Cruelty ended up becoming nothing to the Jewish victims, they worried more about eating than the pain they felt.
Anti-Semitism and Discrimination of the Jewish People Before and Leading up to WW1 Anti-Semitism in the dictionary means hostility to or prejudice against Jews. It has been a problem for the Jewish people ever since the times of the Egyptian Pharaoh’s and there on to about World War 2. The Pharaohs believed that the rapid growth of the Israelite people was a problem waiting to happen because they were thought to side with Egypt’s enemies. The Jewish people do not have a place to call their own so they become parts of other nations.
Another significant difference in the experience of women relates to their relationship with children. Only women were faced with the decision whether to stay with their children and face their demise, or to leave their young ones behind. The Jewish women that successfully made their way into the camp eventually had to make the choice between their own life and that of their children. This was a conflicting reversal of natural order as a moment of giving life turns into a moment of death, as a mother’s choice to live meant death for the newborn baby. This was a betrayal of their maternal nature.
Based on Night, during the Holocaust, the Nazis gradually reduced the Jews to little more than “things” which were a nuisance to them. To deprive one of human qualities, personality, and/or spirit is to dehumanize one. In which, there were way more than a handful of examples to support this statement. Examples where men were deprived of food (human qualities), forced to go against their religion (personality), and wretchedly beat (spirit). Three of the basic human needs include food, water, and shelter.
Jewish parents in Germany and the people in other countries put the kids in the Kindertranport and they put some of the kids in the orphanage or foster homes to save Jewish children during the Holocaust because of Hitler what he was doing to the Jewish people. When people in Britain learned about Kristallnacht, they __went to help the Germans from Hitler. The British Jewish Refugee Committee helped the kids in Germany from Hitler and many parents sent them away. This resulted in a big save. Jewish parents and children had to take a risk to send there kids away to orphanage or foster homes some didn't have homes.
Jews that lived during the Holocaust were robbed and deprived of their God given rights and humanity.. They slowly lost hope, faith, family, and the reason you keep living. Elie Wiesel realizes he has to let go of his family to survive when the doctor says, “In this place there is no such thing as father, brother, friend”(110). This is dehumanizing because people are born needing a family to depend on and once they lose something as simple as that, they fall into a pit of negative emotions. Thousands of people lost their family members during the holocaust and the Germans had absolutely so sympathy towards them.
Huy Nguyen. A great man once said “Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing”- Abraham Lincoln. Although William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet and the novel 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup seem like a very dissimilar texts, both texts develop the theme of appearance vs. reality, particularly through suspense in which order to convey the message to the reader that people are not who they seem to be.
Children were especially vulnerable during this tragic period. A.Jews couldn't go to school with Germans and the Germans were taught jews and gypsies were racially inferior . B. Jewish children lived in the ghettos with their families, needed to sneak food in order to eat, the children had to be used as slaves at the concentration camps III. The Allies liberated the concentration camps in 1945 and became unwilling witnesses to horror. A.What happened in the camps was way worse
