Reactions to the Holocaust

Who was in the Holocaust


Many people were in the Holocaust.  According to Library.thinkquest.org eleven million people were killed.  Six million were Jewish people.  The Nazis didn't just take Jews.  They took all people that didn't have blond hair and blue eyes.  Hitler was so sure that the Germans would win World War 1that when they lost he was defeated.  He thought the Germans were a perfect people.  He couldn't stand that they lost.

Reactions


Lots of people gave up hope after a while.  They lost faith in their god(s).  Others tried to be strong and not lose hope that they would be rescued.  All of these are reactions that happened during the Holocaust.  Some survivors that I have met or read about say that they did believe in god and now that they are not in the Holocaust  they don't believe in god.  Others have the exact opposite reaction and believe even more.  So, as you can see different people have different reactions.

The Yellow Star

Jude

The word "Jude" is the German word for a Jewish person.  When Poland was defeated the Nazis made a law of publicly identifying the Jewish people.  That meant that every Jew had to have a Jewish star with the word Jude in the middle.  This star must be visible at all times worn on the persons shirt.  The star was a sign that the person wearing  it was a Jew.  In those times when you were wearing that badge you would be avoided by all people.

Humiliation 

  Making the Jews wear the Jewish star quickly changed the sign of Judaism into a patch of humiliation.  Not only were they humiliated but it became like torture to the jewish people.  When they went into the street it was even torture.  When they went into the street they were emediatly recognized, monetered, shunned, abused, and mostly marked for death.  This  made them easy prey for people to make fun of them and phisicaly hurt them to.

Maus

The Book

The book MAUS is a very serious book.  Despite the look of the cover this book can be very frightening to some people.  This books is more of a comic than  book.  Not the funny kind.  The book has very intense graphics that have made people throw up.  I would not recommend it for young children.  Although it can be very gruesome at times.  The book can be very informative.  There are times when I read them and I am surprised at what things they did.  I learned a lot about the Holocaust from those books.

About The Book

In this book Jews are portrayed as mice and Germans Are cats etc.  This book is a true story.  In the book he not only tells his fathers story he also tells what happens to himself.  I believe it is also informative on what it was like for the holocaust survivors after the Holocaust.  How hard it was for them to fit in and adjust to the environment.  The Holocaust also left some of the Holocaust  with Little quirks. For example some Holocaust survivors save everything. It explains about that to. This book gives so much information that I would recommend it to almost anyone.