Judaism for Dummies, 2nd Edition by Ted Falcon & David Blatner

Author:Ted Falcon & David Blatner
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119643081
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2013-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Holocaust

We can’t do justice to the enormity of what is today generally called the “Holocaust” and, by many Jews, the Shoah (Devastation). The Shoah is just too big. Here, we attempt to briefly tell what happened and explain how this nightmare became reality.

In the mid-1930s, the Nazi party instituted laws that were meant to make the Jews miserable enough to emigrate. Laws prohibited Jews from work for the government, placed boycotts on their businesses, expelled their children from schools, and so on. The government created concentration camps to hold anyone, Jewish or non-Jewish, considered dangerous: political activists, communists, members of trade unions, Romani (gypsies), homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and many Jewish journalists, lawyers, and community leaders. These concentration camps were basically prisons and were different than “death camps,” which appeared later and were specifically designed to kill people. Some concentration camps also became death camps, but some were simply sources of slave labor for the Germans.

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