During the Holocaust, in 1939, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party invaded Poland, causing six million Jewish people to fear for their lives, and to actively or passively resist the Nazis. This all started, when all citizens had to complete a census and carry an identification card. Second, the Jewish people had to wear The Star of David and were forced into Ghettos. Third, they were taken to the concentration and death camps. In “The Diary of Anne Frank,” “Violins of Hope,” and “Resistance during the Holocaust,” we read about incredible people passively resisting, some surviving the war, but still trying to withhold the Jewish culture. Those trying to resist passively believed in not using violence to fight back. Why are you lowering yourself down to their standards by fighting violence with violence?
In “The Diary of Anne Frank,” Anne, a victim of the Holocaust responded to what was
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Ammon Weinstein is just another individual of the war who survived with passive resistance. Hitler tried to silence the Jews, although, the voice was heard through the violins that he fixes: “. . . I’m walking in their footsteps, and their voice is actually heard by my playing of the violin” (2). Despite, the fact he did what Hitler ordered long enough for him to survive, in no way is this a victory on his part. Weinstein is carrying on the legace of all the Jews. Some on the opposing side may disagree by saying “How would this help during WWⅡ?” How would this not help? Not only is it carrying on the lives of all those people, you are letting their voice finally be heard when hitler tried to silence all those people, he kept their culture alive when Nazis tried to cut it out of their life, and respect all those people who once played for freedom; “They’re like tombstones, he says, for the thousands of Jewish instruments and musicians destroyed in the