Golda Meeir Thesis

Conflict: Many Jews died from the terrible tragedies of the Holocaust. They were sent to these concentration camps to wither be killed upon arrival, or work to death.

Anti-semitism was one of the factors that lead to the horrific genocide, yet this genocide began with the spread of words and ideas from “Hitler’s” point of view. He started the spread of hate. On November 9, 1938, the Nazis destroyed synagogues and the shop windows of Jewish-owned stores throughout Germany and Austria. Kristallnacht or “The Night of Broken Glass” was a time of horror. Germans (Nazis) invaded Jewish communities and destroyed everything Jewish. The Nazis wanted to strike fear into the Jewish people, so they destroyed

Throughout history, hatred has been a widespread thought which has caused widespread death, chaos, and war. One huge and important example would be the Holocaust. This idea that Jewish

America is enriched by diversity, attracting immigrants from all over the world. In the early 1900s, Michael Gold, a Russian-Jewish immigrant immigrated to America with his family. His father encouraged him and his sister to become more successful than he was. According to his memoir, his father told him, "I will make a school teacher out of you, Esther! And you, Mikey, will be a doctor.

Racial antisemitism was born in the Nineteenth Century when laws were passed in many European countries posing the Jewish people as second-class citizens, not receiving the same rights as others in society. While they had reached a level of religious emancipation in some countries, Judaism had become recognized as an ethnicity as well, and this ethnic difference from the Aryans therefore made them “inferior.” Pogroms began across Eastern Europe in the late 1800’s which resulted in

With authorization from the Nazi party allocated to its soldiers, troops confiscated Jewish property, pillaged numerous synagogues and stores, and murdered Jews in a short period of time. Reliable assistance to the suffering Jews was hard to find because of the Nazis’ brainwashing of the nation through abundant propaganda. This kind of widespread discrimination inhibited the Jewish people’s ability to speak out against this obvious prejudice. While these attacks were just the tip of the iceberg in comparison to later deeds committed by the Nazis, they were still fundamental to the eventual extermination of the Jewish race.

Through the course of history, the Jewish people have been mistreated, condemned, robbed, even put to death because of their religion. In the Middle Ages, they were forced to wear symbols on their clothing, identifying them as Jews. The dates 1933 to 1945 marked the period of the deadly Holocaust in which many atrocities were committed against the Jewish people and minority groups not of Aryan descent. Six million innocent Jews were exterminated because of Hitler’s “Final Solution.” This paper will exhibit how Adolf Hitler used the three anti-Jewish policies written in history, conversion, expulsion, and annihilation to his advantage.

To begin, there were many political laws implemented against Jews. In the earlier years of World War II, the Nazis declared their goal to segregate Jews from the “Aryan” society.

Throughout history, the Jewish people have been continuously at the center of numerous persecution and hatred. In countries all over Europe the Jewish people countless acts of hate have occurred for centuries. During the time of the Holocaust, over twelve million people were exterminated and it is believed anywhere from five and a half million to six and a half million of these people were Jewish. The Jewish people were repeadelty targeted for a number of various reasons.

Because Hitler inhabited most of Germany with his camps and army so that his genocide would be successful, the Jewish people that got the chance to escape ran to places like Poland and other parts of Europe (GOTTFRIED 3). This brought destruction down upon their places of refuge. Many countries protected their boarders so that Jewish people could not seek shelter in their homeland and bring death and destruction to their country (GOTTFRIED 4). Hitler created a bad reputation that followed the Jewish people wherever they went, and some countries

The Jews were the enemy, and many men justified this by dehumanizing the Jews and distancing themselves psychologically which enabled the continued killing.

Anti-semitism, which is defined to be the hatred of Jews, played a major part in our world history, such as the Holocaust. The Nazis believed that the Jewish community was inferior to their own race, and wanted to get rid of them for good. Initially in the early 1930’s, Adolf Hitler conducted one of the worlds now largest genocides, the annihilation of the Jews during WWII. Nealy six million Jews died during the span of twelve years, which was ⅔ of the Jewish population in Europe, and he was able to do so using the four stages of isolation. Those of which, were the stripping of rights, segregation, concentration, and extermination. The stripping of rights was taking away the Jewish men and women's basic needs, stripping them of their German citizenships, forcing them to wear an armband of the star of David, and etc. The second stage of isolation was segregation. The Jews were kicked out of the comfort of their own homes, and were forced to live in an isolated area called the “ghettos”. The third stage was concentration. After a couple of months from being moved to the ghettos, the Jews were brought to concentration camps where they were forced to work for hours at a time under all conditions, they were starved and all were mistreated. The last stage of isolation is the extermination, which was the stage in which the Jews were killed. The Nazis used different methods to do so, many were shot, beaten to death, burnt alive, but most were brought into gas chambers where they were gassed with Zyklon b which killed all within 3-15 mins of inhalation. There was not much of an option for the Jews their only chance of making it out alive is by figuring out various tactics to survive. Surviving meant that they had to live within a grueling environment, despite the difficult circumstances. Regardless of all the hardships they faced during that time, they were able to survive and overcome them by using different strategies, such as trading with one another, using their skills, and made friendships and built allies with one another in the camps.

Golda Meir, who lived from May 3, 1898 to December 3,1978, was most famously known for being a Zionist Labor leader. She served as a foreign minister in Israel from 1956 to 1966. Later in 1969, she became the fourth prime minister in Israel to lead her people. Meir’s parents were Moshe and Bluma Mabovitch who raised her as their daughter in Kiev, Ukraine. As a young adult, she taught in local schools and was consistently

Horror struck on January 30, 1933, when Germany assigned Adolf Hitler as their chancellor. Once Hitler had finally reached power he set out to complete one goal, create a Greater Germany free from the Jews (“The reasons for the Holocaust,” 2009). This tragedy is known today as, “The Holocaust,” that explains the terrors of our histories past. The face of the Holocaust, master of death, and leader of Germany; Adolf Hitler the most deceitful, powerful, well spoken, and intelligent person that acted as the key to this mass murder. According to a research study at the University of South Florida, nearly eleven million people were targeted and killed. This disaster is a genocide that was meant to ethnically cleanse Germany of the Jews. Although Jewish people were the main target they were not the only ones targeted; gypsies, African Americans, homosexuals, socialists, political enemies, communists, and the mentally disabled were killed (Simpson, 2012, p. 113). The word to describe this hatred for Jewish people is known as antisemitism. It was brought about when German philosophers denounced that “Jewish spirit is alien to Germandom” (“Antisemitism”) which states that a Jew is non-German. Many people notice the horrible things the Germans did, but most don’t truly understand why the Holocaust occurred. To truly understand the Holocaust, you must first know the Nazis motivations. Their motivations fell into two categories including cultural explanations that focused on ideology and

Many historical studies have been deemed quite important and valuable knowledge, but have you ever explored the relevance of Golda Meir and her value to our world’s history? Golda Meir was a vital asset to forming the great nation of Israel. Golda Meir was the fourth prime minister of Israel, in fact, Meir was the first woman to hold the title. Meir studied at what was then the Milwaukee State Normal School but which is now University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was born on May 3, 1898 in Kiev, Russia with the maiden name of Golda Mabovitch. She was employed under the Israeli government as Minister of Labor and Foreign Minister. Meir overcame a tremendous gender role change in the sense that her parents, Moshe and Bluma Mabovitch, wanted her