Shoah Part 3 - The Shoah Flashcards
looking at the particular case of the Shoah, or Holocaust
How many Jews were living in Germany in 1933?
520,000
What was the number of Jews living in Germany post 1933
roughly 1/2 left or been interned by 1939
90% murdered in Final Solution
When did the Final Solution come into existence?
1942
Where did the persecution of Jews continue after 1945?
Soviet bloc
accused of unpatriotic cosmopolitanism and harassed into forced assimilation or exile
How many Russian Jews were there in Germany in 2010
100,000 of 115,000 Jews living there. Man of surviving German Jews had emigrated to Israel or the United States
What was the name to describe small villages with a predominantly Jewish population?
Yiddish culture of Shtetls
Where did Yiddish derive from?
late medieval period
What is now the preferred language of the Jewish people?
Hebrew
What is the implication of the lost Yiddish communities in relation to memoralising
Commemoration of the Shoah is done in a context of recent cultural and human history has been completely restructured
Visitors to monuments or museums commemorating the Holocaust anywhere which came under Nazi domination are divided into two groups. What are they?
those for whom the victims are ‘us’
those for whom the victims are ‘them’
Why is there a big distinction between victims as ‘us’ and ‘them’?
active or passive acceptance of Nazi race laws were imposed universally - hard to reconcile this will democracy post 1945
What is the aim of most Nazi genocide memorials?
bridge the gap between us and them - look on it more as ‘we’ who could have been the victims or the perpetrators
In which century was there liberalising legislation which countered the separation and discrimination of people of Jewish descent?
19th Century
What was the impact of the liberalising legislation?
Jewish people were able to join the professions, serve in the army and marry Christians.
despite the liberalising legislation, what remained?
prejudice - success of Jewish men and women in business, the arts and politics created strong undercurrents of hatred which fuelled by antagonism to the leadership roles held by Jews in some socialist and communist movements
