Assignment for 5.

04-Option 1
Directions: Reflect on what you learned in the lesson about the experiences of Jews during the Holocaust.
Study the primary sources (click link here, or on 5.04 directions page in online textbook) and accounts
depicting different experiences of young people. Write a three-paragraph response (at least 5 sentences per
paragraph) that answers that answers the prompt:

What was the impact of the Holocaust on Jews?

In your writing, be sure to:

● recount historical facts accurately
● use key terms from the lesson or primary sources as appropriate
● reference the primary sources
● cite any outside sources

The Jews were persecuted due to their religious beliefs. The term is
Paragraph 1: Why Antisemitism and Hitler had been in contact with it since he was a young
were the Jews child. The true cause of why Hitler came to his hatred of Jews is
persecuted? What did
unknown, but there are countless theories. Meanwhile, one thing is
Jewish people
experience during the known and that is the fact that Hitler did not invent antisemitism, but
Holocaust? was introduced to the idea. There were always those with negative
feelings towards Jews and called them “christ killers”, Hitler just took it
way too far. In the times of the holocaust, there were many negative
experiences. Families were separated into different locations, and
children were taken away from their mothers. Meanwhile, G.I. soldiers
all together played a crucial role in liberating the concentration camps.
They were mostly the first people to help and comfort the prisoners.
They also had to watch these horrors take place and then tell the world
about them.

Paragraph 2: What
was the U.S. response
to the Holocaust before
the war and during the
war?
The U.S. sent people to the concentration camps to help people in need.
They also surveyed the damage done and worked with Jewish leaders to
come up with plans and take action. They bombed industrial
installations near Auschwitz, one of the main concentration camps.
Overall, they helped to really get in deep within Nazi ran Germany. In
addition to this, they started to enforce much stricter regulations on
immigration. “The quota system allowed only 25,957 Germans to enter
the country every year” (American Response to the Holocaust).

The many effects of the Holocaust are still felt by certain, targeted
groups of people. Jews to this day still experience antisemitism and run
Paragraph 3: What into hate signs every once in a while. Quite a few Jews immigrated to the
effects did the
U.S., becoming Jewish Americans, but the jewish population still has not
Holocaust have on
those who were increased very much due to the event. People who experienced these
liberated? things, or even people with family members sharing the experiences, will
all have to live with the memories and ideas of the torture that took
 place. While freedom may be worth celebrating, the fact that the
majority of people had family members taken from them reverses that
joy.

- Why did Hitler hate the Jews? | Anne Frank House

Sources: - Why were Jews targeted for persecution and annihilation? ::
About Holocaust
- American Response to the Holocaust - HISTORY
- Effects and Aftermath of the Holocaust | Holocaust Encyclopedia
(ushmm.org)