Jewish Culture



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Forced Labor

    This was the time when the members of the German SS forced members of the Jewish culture to work.  They were required to do all the lower work that was unsuitable for the Germans to do.  These activities included cutting the beards of the German army and running the German factories that boosted German war production.  This treatment and work usually occurred within the concentration camps.  While doing this work, the Jewish for subjected to poor and humiliating treatment, worked to death, and were killed if they refused to do the work that was asked of them.

Medical Experiments

    This was when the Germans took the Jewish members of the concentration camp and forced them into being used as live experiments.  Some examples of these experiments included seeing  how much cold the Jews could stand or how much pain they could endure.  The Germans also did experiments involving sterilization, poison, and medicine to see how much the human body could withstand.  The key part of this was that these experiments were done when the Jewish people involved were alive.  These experiments were done on the people who were found in the concentration camps.

Survivors of the Concentration Camps

    When World War II was over, many of the members of the concentration camps found it difficult to return home.  Many of their homes had been looted or taken over by other people.  There were also anti-Jewish riots that were still occurring and causing the Jewish people to be nervous or frightened about where they were living or where they were going to be living.  Many of the members of the Jewish community wound up being placed in Displaced Person Camps because they had no other place to go.

Resistance to the Germans by the members of the Jewish Culture

    Many of the Jews resisted going to the concentration camps and doing the work once they went to the concentration camps because they believed they were going to die anyway.  This way, they could do it with some honor.  These were known as Jewish Suicides during World War II.  In order to resist placement in the concentration camps, Jewish people would run from the trains taking them to where they were supposed to be going or sometimes even attacking the captors that were attempting to take them to the camps.

Victims of the Jewish Culture

    The victims of the Jewish culture ranged from people of all ages and sizes.  They were men, women, and children.  If the prisoners of the concentration camps did not do what they were asked or what they were told, the Germans would kill or punish them by whatever means they felt fit.  All people could be punished or killed.  Everyone who was Jewish, was a victim during World War II.

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Nazism

Outbreak of World War II

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Laura Howe
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