How The Holocaust Has Changed Perception Of Jewish People in The World

How The Holocaust Has Changed Perception Of Jewish People in The World

Introduction

The Jewish holocaust, otherwise known as Hebrew Shoah, was one of the century’s genocide of the European Jews. Under the leadership of the Nazi government, about 6 million Jewish men, women, and children were brutally murdered following the rise of ant-Semitism ideology spearheaded by the Nazi Germany and its collaborators. A systematic state-owned killing aimed at ethnic cleansing was conducted leading to diminished influence of the Jewish culture and religion. As a result, various ideas have been perceived by the Jewish towards the absolute evil act against humanity experienced in Nazi Germany and German territories around Europe. These notions are discussed below.

Social Injustice

The holocaust was a breach to human order through disruption to social set-up of the Jewish culture. The Nazis did not only force their ideologies to govern the Jewish people but also murdered both resisting and non-resisting Jewish people. The conversion against Semitism to German ideologies caused a fall of the Jewish prestige. Due to religious and political conversion and expulsion respectively, the social set-up of the Jewish was disrupted thus causing social injustice to the survivors. Furthermore, the holocaust was intended at fully wiping the Jewish race. From Jewish point of view, the holocaust was meant to halt their religious and political practices thus proven to be a great act of social injustice. The abrupt change in governance and choice of living against people’s will is full evidence of social injustice. Nevertheless, the racial discrimination manifested by killing of only Jewish affiliated people made it a sidelined act thus proving to an unjustified act.

Racial Discrimination

The Jewish race is one of the smallest ethnic group following the aftermath of the holocaust. As opposed to their earlier ethnic group dominating Europe, the Jewish were reduced in number following the genocide. Before the holocaust, Jewish culture was highly recognized in Europe and beyond. Their belittlement came when the Nazi Germans decided to brutally wipe the ethnic group. Nevertheless, the enaction of anti-immigration laws not only subjected them to the racial cleansing act but also made it impossible to save their race from extinction. As a result, the Jewish people died in large numbers causing envy to victims of the holocaust. The Jewish people faced racial extinction as result of segregation attitude cultivated by the Germans. Thus, Jewish perceive themselves isolated by the rest of the world as they were even consolidated to the new State of Israel. Driven from the ancestral land and isolation of a given ethnic members to a specific locality is a clear indication of racial segregation. Therefore, the perception of racial inferiority is one the major consequence of the holocaust.

Economic Injustice

The Jewish economy suffered greatly from the holocaust as the Nazis were dedicated to befalling the Jewish community in all aspects. Before even the holocaust, the Nazi Germany ordered the public to boycott the Jewish businesses. Many workers other than Jewish affiliates ceased from using, buying and promotion of Jewish products in the entire Europe. As a result, it led to fall of the Yiddish economy. Later during the holocaust, the Nazi soldiers destroyed and burnt all the shops belonging to the Jewish merchants. The government officials and insurance corporate officials were at standby to ensure only Jewish businesses were demolished. This was a total downfall to the Jewish economy since no compensations were even made afterwards. Following the rise of the Nazi German and its collaborators economic prowess through consolidation of Jewish wealth, the Yiddish economy was doomed to deterioration. The Jewish not only strive to be on the global corporate map but also aim to heal from the wounds of economic injustice created by the holocaust. This makes the Jewish people feel like underdogs in the economic sector.

Religious Injustice

The major reason for the holocaust was to outdo the Semitism religion. This was the dominating religious group in Europe before the Nazis came into power. With main objective of the Nazi Germans to overturn the religious practice, Jewish religion was bound to fall. The ant-Semitism movement was spear-headed by the religious Nazi ideologies and reinforced by political anti-Semitism. They not only burned down the synagogues but also murdered the believers of the faith. This led to conversion of Jewish survivors to Christianity thereby forcing them to leave their religion. Nevertheless, Nazi German’s ideologies were greatly spread allover Europe at the expense of Semitism culture. Consequently, many Jewish priests who resisted were publicly executed thus showcasing religious injustice of the highest level. The Zionist activity propagated by the Jewish community were put into end by the refraining Christian ideologies. The Jewish perceived their religion as the cause of their suffering thereby compelling them to conform to the Nazi’s religious ideologies. The Jewish think other religious practices have come into being at the expense of Semitism thereby making them hold a religious grudge towards other denominations. They feel the world subjects them to religious injustice since the Yiddish are the major participants of Semitism practices.

Political Injustice

Following the holocaust, the governing system of the Jewish people drastically changed. The Nazi Germans dismantle the political hierarchy of the Yiddish people thereby subjecting them to their rule. The Jewish legislation was replaced by the Nazi’s thereby rendering their political and church leaders powerless. Lack of recognition of the Jewish legislation belittle the Jewish beliefs on their leaders. The Jewish people consider themselves enslaved to the world form of governance since most states if not all are governed in otherwise opposed manner to them. Both the Jewish immigrants and survivors were subjected to Nazi ruling system thereby making them accessory to political injustice. Otherwise, through formation of the State of Israel, the Jewish people have still strings attached to the holocaust effect. It not only disrupted their governance system but also subjected to formulation of new government. The killing of the political figures and disbandment of ruling system is perceived by the Jewish people as a belittlement to their political state. Since the political injustice acts are not yet settled, the holocaust events still remain to be thought as trigger to the new government.

Inhumanity

Lastly, the Jewish people as victims of the holocaust think the act was inhuman. The Yiddish victims were highly stigmatized by the evil acts conducted against them. Brutal murdering by bullets, starvation and enslavement conducted by the Nazi German and their collaborators are out of humanity practices. The holocaust presented with mass killing of Jewish people, deprivation of basic needs through enslavement and malnutrition as a result of starvation. The Jewish were tortured both physically by German soldiers and emotionally by forcing the survivors see their fellow people mercilessly killed. Nevertheless, the extermination at the camps proved to be traumatizing to humanitarians and civil society as a whole. The Jewish people without hesitation are truly troubled by the genocide as some even sort refuge to neighboring European countries. Additionally, the Jewish people were even given new identity and nationalism by creation of the State of Israel. All these were against their will thereby making the act inhuman in nature. The Jewish people following their nearly nonexistence of their race, the inhumanity felling is real and authentic. They not only feel offended but also unattended to by the world. The Jewish nation is one of the self-regulated nations with few allies. Thus, the inhumanity perception is eminent.

Conclusion

In summary, the holocaust brought not only non-mentionable aftermaths to the Jewish people but also impaired the relationship between Jewish nation and the world. Since no nation openly offered humanitarian, psychological or economic assistance, the Yiddish see themselves world’s most hated nation in the world. They are the most traumatized nation as majority of their natives were inhumanly sentenced to death by the Nazi Germany and its collaborators. In the entire Europe, most no nation offered refuged to the victims who tried to flee from the holocaust. Nevertheless, countries like U.S only offered refuge assistance under restrictive ant-immigration laws. Thus, the Jewish’ feelings towards inhumanity, political injustice, religious injustice, economic injustice, social injustice and racial discrimination are authentic towards the world.