How did world war 2 affect the Jewish people?

Answer 1

The Jewish response was obviously varied by country. The countries directly affected by the Nazi attacks were unanimous in condemning them, but had little impact on the media since that was Nazi-controlled. The Jews in countries outside Nazi territory were mostly in the U.S., where they were divided into two groups: the Orthodox, who wanted to save Jewish lives at any price, and the Reform led by Rabbi Stephen Wise, who felt that the lives lost were only secondary to supporting American interests in fighting the axis. Thus Orthodox Rabbis (most famously Rabbi Eliezer Silver of Cincinnati)and congregations lobbied Washington and had mass meetings (most famous at Madison Square Garden), while the reform urged the president to ignore the orthodox. The orthodox set up the Vaad Hatzala, which in addition to lobbying sent money to Europe and to other countries where Jews ahdh escaped to, such as Japan, China, Cuba, etc. Jews in Israel (Palestine at that time) were involved and sent troops in the form of Jewish volunteers to the British Army, where many got the training they later used on their return to help in the new Israeli army formed after independance in 1948. One famous story was the parachuting of Jweish trops into Hungary, led by Hannah Senesh, who was captured and killed. There are books about her story. There are many books presenting this topic as their major theme, esp. those by Dr, David Kranzler and some published by Artscroll pub. in their Holocaust Diaries series.

Answer 2

Before World War 2, the Jewish people lived mainly in Europe and did not have their own country. As a result of World War 2, the Jews now have their own country of Israel and few Jews live in Europe.

Before 1880, almost all the Jews in the world lived in Europe with most of them in what was called the Pale of Settlement, an area that is now partly in Russia and partly in the eastern one third of Poland and the Ukraine. In 1881, the Jews were expelled from the Pale of Settlement and two million of them came to America, while others went to Germany or Austria.

As a result of World War 2, the Jews were sent to camps and after these camps were liberated, the Jews were put into Displaced Persons camps. Most of them did not want to return to their former country and their countries did not want them back. So most of the remaining Jews of Europe came to America, starting in 1948, or they went to Israel which became a country in 1948.

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' ... few Jews live in Europe'. France has an estimated 600,000 Jews and Britain about 350,000.

Answer 3

Individual people were allowed their own opinions, there was no great conspiracy like Hitler tried to suggest that all Jews were in together.

Answer 4

The same way any people would feel who were facing systematic ghettoization, deportation and almost certain short-term death.

Answer 5

they felt really bad becuase hitler was treating them badly becuase he saw them as imperfect

Answer 6

They felt horrible during World War II

Answer 7

Six million European Jews were murdered.

Answer 8

Terrified