Jewish Moneylender, Shylock

“You call me misbeliever, cutthroat dog, and spet upon my Jewish gaberdine… You that did void your rheum upon my beard and foot me as you spurn a stranger cur over your threshold!” (1.3.107-108, 113-115). A quote from Shakespeare’s masterpiece illustrates the unnecessary cruelness to the Jewish religion through a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. The man journeys through life with the automatic hatred of Christian peoples due to the characters religion. Beginning in the 1500s, Jewish men and women around the world lived with the scrutiny and torturous people, judging them based upon their religion. Trapped and put into camps, European Jews in 1933 received beatings and eventually died. This tragedy killed thousands of innocent people, being tortured

The effort to save these Jewish people held a strong spot in some religions which aided the in the rebirth of the Jewish community. For example, a woman by the name of Corrie Ten Boom begin hiding Jewish peoples in her house above a family owned jewelry store. Corrie and her family saved the lives of an estimated 800 Jews over the years the “Beje” system, a system of “safe houses” for Jews, had existed. Building a compact room that could fit no more than six people at a time aided in the hiding of the Jews that passed through the ten Boom’s household. On February 28, 1944 the Dutch family’s house invested itself with German soldiers who ended up removing the 35 people in the house, including the ten Boom family, and moved the people to concentration camp. The peril efforts made by most families during this time affected both the refugees and the particular family’s lives. Specifically, the punishment for housing Jews in your home included concentration camps, even if that person or people followed another religion. Another popular method to aid the Jews into not having to experience the torturous concentration camps for long, seemed as the escape. In an incident regarding the residents of a Protestant village in southern France, an abundance of Jewish peoples escaped the persecution of the Nazi’s, with some help.

In fact, the USHMM, or the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, set aside a day in Remembrance for this act of tragedy. January 27 celebrates the end of the Holocaust with a variety of survivors who make touching speeches and inform others about the cation of this act recurring. The crowd full of damp eyes and touch hearts leaves people with the lesson and determination to stop this act of happening another time. Surely all people of the world, especially young people, should inform themselves of this period in time to make sure this will never happen again in a later time when survivors will not live on to explain to further generations. In a recent incident, a University of San Diego professor and some of her students wore bright yellow Jewish stars, similar to the ones Jews wore during the Holocaust, to protest against Islamophobia. University of San Diego now crawls with students and faculty wearing the Star of David with the word “Muslim” written underneath to raise awareness for the lives lost. Strong and opinionated these students wear this symbol around campus but may not wear them outside due to the negative connotation it may receive. Due to the TONE WORD in society regarding the presidential debates, the Holocaust is mentioned frequently in today’s society. Rising slowly, the current teen generation’s spot to aid the world into