Jews in shtetls spoke Yiddish at home and other languages elsewhere because they lived in Jewish ghettos, not because they delighted in being bilingual. I hope that dying languages can be recorded and described, but their individual deaths are not something to be mourned. Indeed a single “...
What were concentration camps during the Holocaust? What was a pogrom in the Holocaust? What were death camps during the Holocaust? What were the Gestapo tactics? What kind of camps were in the Holocaust? What did the SS do in the Holocaust? What was the Jewish resistance during the Holocau...
In mid-September 1943, the Jewish camp was liquidated (although the military camp continued to function, mainly as a base for actions against the local partisan fighters). At that time about 90 Jewish prisoners remained alive. They were transferred first to Minsk and, then, about a week ...
While ghettos historically emerged in part due to discriminatory policies or practices, such as those seen in Europe for Jewish populations or racial segregation in the United States, slums often evolve due to urbanization challenges. These include insufficient urban planning, poverty, and lack of aff...
Between the outbreak of war and June 1941, Jewish populations under Nazi German control in Eastern Europe had been herded into ghettos, their valuables seized and their livelihoods destroyed. In occupied Western Europe, Jews were compelled to wear the distinctive yellow star, and their property was...
The summer of 1941 marked the beginning of the mass murder of Europe's Jews. Between the outbreak of war and June 1941, Jewish populations under Nazi German control in Eastern Europe had been herded into ghettos, their valuables seized and their livelihoods destroyed. ...
The author completely glosses over the fact that Magneto isn’t just “some old white dude” and in fact was a persecuted minority of Jewish/Gypsy descent and survived a concentration camp. He spent years hunting down old Nazi soldiers and punishing them. That’s a huge part of his backgro...
Frantz Fanon believed that colonization caused the colonized to internalize the oppression and violence of this process Frantz Fanon believed that colonialism was a process that created deep divides between genders in colonial societies Frantz Fanon believed that the process of colonization allowed the opp...
a German businessman who hired some Jewish people to work for him. When he saw the Nazis go into one of their ghettos and shoot these people down in cold blood, Schindler was deeply moved and decided to spend the rest of his life trying to save Jewish people. And he was quite successf...