Evaluate Jewish Experiences Due To Nazi Germany From 1933-1945

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Evaluate Jewish Experiences Due to Nazi Germany from 1933-1945 The Jewish experience during the period of 1933 to 1945 was filled with unprecedented persecution, discrimination, and mass genocide under Nazi Germany's rule. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party scapegoated Jews for Germany's economic struggles and promoted racist values and beliefs that the Jews were inferior and a threat to Hitler's ideal German society. (Britannica, 2018) Once Hitler rose to power in 1933, discriminatory laws were brought in, taking Jews’ rights and lives. The Nuremberg Laws (1935) allowed racial segregation and stole the Jews’ citizenship. Jewish businesses were reprimanded, Jewish property was taken, and Jews were increasingly expelled from society. Nazi Germany's policies led …show more content…

Although each woman's experience was unique, there were common challenges faced by women during the holocaust. Women were subject to the concentration camps, same as the men. Mothers struggled to cope with the loss of their children, they sacrificed their lives in an attempt to save them. Often, younger women were forced into sexual abuse with guards and other prisoners. Women were used by the Nazis as ‘test subjects for procedures and drugs without their consent, this similarly happened to the men in the camps. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2006) The experience of Jewish children during the Holocaust was horrifying, as they were the most vulnerable victims of the Nazis. Many Jewish children were forcibly taken from their families during transportation to concentration camps. Separated from their families, they faced feelings of loneliness and neglect. Jewish children, like the adults, were rounded up, deported and taken to concentration camps. Conditions in the camps were horrendous, overcrowding, malnutrition, and disease. Children were often forced into manual labour and inadequate living