Jews After Ww2 Essay

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The Jews of Europe: 1933-1945

During our life there are going to be obstacles that are hard. We expect our life to be safe. After WWI, it took a long time to heal our wounds from the bloody war. Nobody thought that it would happen again. The world didn't know who was hiding in the shadows, who had been listening, and who was ready to step out of the dark.

A man named Adolf Hitler stepped out to help his citizens to gain power for the government in Germany. During that time, Germans treated him as a savoir from god. Changes happened and the German's power began to rise again. But, they had restrictions from America, France, and Great Britain. One of the restrictions was to stay out of Poland. German people didn't know Hitler's twisted plans …show more content…

The Jewish language was a combination of German and Hebrew that is called Yiddish. They had normal lives which included the modern life of books, theater, and movies. Their fashion was traditional based on certain age groups. The elder men dressed with hats or caps and the elder women were modest by covering their hair with wigs or kerchiefs. Jewish jobs consisted of jobs such as teachers, small- business owners, farmers, seamstresses and similar jobs too day. Well this may seem like a happy normal life, the rise of the Nazis would put that to an end.

By the middle of WWII, the Jewish environment was horrible. They were forced to live separate from non-Jewish people. There was a huge change in their lives by not living in their real home environment.

The first ghetto was in Lodz, Poland. It had 170,000 Jews and the area was about 1 ½ square miles. It was the second largest ghetto that was created to shut out Jews from the outside world. The homes in the ghettos were wasting away by the sewage, gas and included the water shutting down. A lot of Jewish people wrote in their diary's about their experience and the emotions felt in the ghettos. The lack of food made a huge depression during the struggle of the ghettos. They very overcrowded. "The environment had such harsh conditions that 43,000 Jews and 21% of the ghetto inhabitants