Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said, “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” The Nazis were a political party that liked to control the Jewish people, and they didn’t like the Jews because the Aryans thought they were better than everybody else. They liked to split up the Jews from their families and send them to camps. As the Holocaust unfolded, the Nazis used strategies such as separation and mistreatment to isolate, oppress, and control the Jewish population. Separation and Isolation The first strategy that the Nazis used was separation and isolation. In Shores Beyond Shores, Irene Butter tells how she wasn’t invited to a birthday party because she was Jewish. Irene says, “ Karl in my class is having a birthday party, and I'm not …show more content…
Reni and her family were Jewish, and at that time Jewish people were being isolated. Another one of her classmates Littell didn’t get invited, so they had their party. Another example is Jesse Owens, the author who informs us about how he never got to shake Hitler's hand, but everyone else did. The author states, “I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the president either” (Bennett Jr). Hitler didn’t like how Jessie Owen was winning 4 medals because he was not one of Hitler’s Aryans. That day he won 4 gold medals, after Owens won his 3rd gold medal, Hitler left the stadium. This shows separation and isolation because neither of these people did not get invites to events that they should get. Mistreatment Another strategy that the Nazis used was mistreating the Jewish people in the camps. Elie Wiesel was a 15-year-old who was sent to Auschwitz, but he didn’t know what it was at the time. Elie Wiesel says he heard,” Men to the left! Woman on the right! .I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora