how did the holocaust effect the modern jewish people and their difficulty to accept there religious identity?
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the "modern" jewish people are the same as the ancient jewish people.. we are all one, and israel is our jewish homeland. \nWe have always had a strong identity, it has not left us, and perhaps the holocaust has even made it stronger
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It is complicated, but here goes.......\n\nBack after WWII, displaced Jews needed a place, and a lot had gone to that area.  To make a long story short, Isreal was divided for the Jews and the Palestineans.  The Jews got the lion's share because other countries felt sorry for them about the Holocaust.  Later, Israel attacked and took more land to create a buffer zone between them (the Gaza Strip).  The leaders signed a treaty in the 1970s on the White House Lawn, but the two peoples of the two lands have not been cooperative in ending the violence.  Israel would be in trouble if not allied with the U.S., and Muslims side with the Palestineans.  The problems never seem to resolve, and show no signs of resolution any time soon.
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The Holocaust (as opposed to lower-case "holocaust") is the systematic murder of 6 million Jews and approximately the same number of non-Jews by Nazi Germany led by Adolph Hitler.  Yes, it happened.  There are still survivors alive today who were there, as well as Americans, British, etc. who were involved in the liberation of the death camps who also witnessed the devastation.\n\nThe main deniers today are Moslems, as well as organized racist groups in Western countries (such as the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan in the US).
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The Jewish people have been quite successful in surviving many centuries of hatred, prejudice and the Holocaust. And maintain an unproportionately high role in society. There are only about 13 million Jews worldwide, about 1% of the total population.\n\nAs a good guideline to a healthy and prosperous lifestyle, I feel the Jewish culture is one worth passing on down to ones children.
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You son of a b**ch!  I lost 17 members of my family in Buchenwald and I know many, many other Jewish people who also lost family members.  The Germans kept meticulous records and we know for a fact that the numbers are correct.  If you are a Muslim, then no explantion is needed for such hatred.  But if you are a Christian, then you are not following the tenets of your religion and you should be ostracized from the Christian community!
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I have no problem with any religion, I dont agree with all of them, but I dont dis on any of them, God made us belive what he wants us to believe in. The Jews were great people and if you actually talk to one from the Holocaust youll want to cry This guy came to my school when I was a senior, and gave a speech, I went just to get out of class and was so suprised by what I heard, They are amazing people
607107
To be truly Jewish, you have to be a direct (<-very important) descendant of the 12 sons of Issac, and it's somewhat hard to change your lineage, so not too many Jewish people in the world.
99859
They don't want trouble.\n Doubt about Holocaust for Jews is something like Mohammad cartoons for Muslims, they are sensitive about it so it's better to be gentle and accept their limits.\nThe only government involve in holocaust was Germany and they have confessed that they did it and they don't want more problem, so they ban their scientists.
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The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of the Jews of Europe along with other groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by the Nazis.\n\nThe Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million, so much so that the phrase "six million" is now almost universally interpreted as referring to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, though estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the Nazi regime itself, range from five million to seven million.\n\nAbout 220,000 Sinti and Roma were killed in the Holocaust (some estimates are as high as 800,000), between a quarter to a half of the European population. Other groups deemed "racially inferior" or "undesirable": Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians on occupied territories including Russians and other Slavs, Poles (3 million Polish Jews, and 2 million Polish gentiles, total 5 million Poles killed in Holocaust), the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, some Catholic and Protestant clergy, were also persecuted and killed. Many scholars do not include the Nazi persecution of all of these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, with some scholars limiting the Holocaust to the genocide of the Jews; some to genocide of the Jews, Roma, and disabled; and some to all groups targeted by Nazi racism.[2] Taking all these other groups into account, however, the total death toll rises considerably, estimates generally place the total number of Holocaust victims at 9 to 11 million, though some estimates have been as high as 26 million.
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This question has been run into the ground.  The Holocaust of the 1930'and 40's was a factual occurrence in the history of man.  There are to many living witnesses, physical evidence,and documentation to think otherwise.  It does not matter how many times this question is asked, it is not going to make the facts change to meet your needs.
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I was a history major in college with a focus on the holocaust.  I studied him extensively.  It is widely argued about whether he was a Jew.  Little is known about his real father.  It may be that his father was a Jew or half Jew and was absent, causing resentment of those people.  \nIf you look at history.  Historically,, the Jews have been constantly persecuted..  A couple reasons for this is      1. The Jews killed Christ (actually the Romans did, but the Jews get  blamed).  \n2. Loaning money  for interest or usury.  Christians were not.  Jews are characterized as wealthy and greedy.  Both of these generalizations are founded on their laws which permit usury.\nIf you look at this time in history, the Germans were financially crippled by the reparations they were forced to pay due to WW I.   They were not allowed to rearm at all.  Take a people with a proud military past, a loss of a major war, a country ravaged by war, financially crippled and unable to build, that makes for the perfect set of circumstances to find a scapegoat.\nDue to the allowance of usury by Jewish laws,  many were bankers.  They were fairly affluent.  Hitler chose a group of people that many were wealthy and affluent and already faced a prejudice, to be the one's responsible for Germany's woes.  This helped rocket him into power.
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both are very real. the holocaust was hitlers way of gettin rid of people of jewish faith.idealisticly hitler wanted a superior race,blonde haired blue, eyed men and women possibly under the age of 35.he was a satanic man and had the urged to rule the world.he started in the german army as a corporal but,rose to the top leader of nazi germany.he executed the jewish people simply because they were and are GODs chosen people according to the old testament {KJV}. im a christian and i have my own opinions and understandings which i wont go into now, but, hitler was not a godly man and since he did not beleive in GOD, i figure he didnt want anyone else to.now palestine is a country and a arab one at that.they are like their sister countries.always fighting about something and always in a state of unrest.arab nations have fought with each other or against each other for centuries and will till the end of time.i never understood the arabs really until i could halfway understand thecivil war.father against son,brother against brother.i know nothing of the term Palestine Murderer. could be the killing of a person or people or of the country.just my  simple understanding
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I am taking a holocaust class in collage. The way I understand it is that Hilterand the germans blamed the Jews for everything. Losing the war, denying Jesus Christ, and they had the best shops and house that money could buy. He had that took from them. To help u out a little more go to www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. If u have more questions e-mail at Njacobs7477@yahoo.com, I will be glad to help u.
627027
They all had problems with Jewish people.
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Israel's definition of "Jewish" has absolutely nothing to do with religion. After WWII, in which Hitler killed Jews regardless of their religious inclinations, Jews around the world wanted a safe place for all people who considered themselves Jewish to be able to go, hence Israel. Thus, everyone whose mother is Jewish or who has converted to Judaism is eligible to be a citizen of Israel. In addition to this method of naturalization, people who become permanent residents of Israel and live there for several years and break off all ties to their former country are able to apply for citizenship, regardless of their heritage or religion.
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my grandfather survived the holocaust and i very sure that he isnt lying about it, i can see the number in his arm. \n\nTHE HOLOCAUST   \n\n   \n\nThe Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were "life unworthy of life." During the era of the Holocaust, the Nazis also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the handicapped, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.\n\nIn 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that the Third Reich would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, close to two out of every three European Jews had been killed as part of the "Final Solution", the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included tens of thousands of Roma (Gypsies). At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled people were murdered in the Euthanasia Program. As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Nazis persecuted and murdered millions of other people. More than three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment. The Germans targeted the non-Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet citizens for forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland. From the earliest years of the Nazi regime, homosexuals and others deemed to be behaving in a socially unacceptable way were persecuted. Thousands of political dissidents (including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists) and religious dissidents (such as Jehovah's Witnesses) were also targeted. Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment.\n  \n\n   \n \nThe Holocaust\nSee maps\n\nBefore beginning the war in 1939, the Nazis established concentration camps to imprison Jews, Roma, other victims of ethnic and racial hatred, and political opponents of Nazism. During the war years, the Nazis and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) carried out mass-murder operations against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state and Communist party officials. More than a million Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by these units. Between 1942 and 1944, Nazi Germany deported millions more Jews from the occupied territories to extermination camps, where they murdered them in specially developed killing facilities.\n\nIn the final months of the war, SS guards forced camp inmates on death marches in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives on Germany, they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, many of whom had survived the death marches. World War II ended in Europe with the unconditional surrender of German armed forces in the west on May 7 and in the east on May 9, 1945.
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What people don't know is that the Jews were the first around in the world. People are jerks that don't like other people because of the religion.