Monday, June 30, 2008

name two laws that were plased apon the Jews

In
his book
href="">Night
,
author
href="">Elie
Wiesel writes of his experiences during World War
II and the horrors the Jews endured
both before and in the death camps during
the Holocaust.

When the Wiesel
family is deported, the
Nazis are vicious as they load people into the railway cars. "There
are
eighty of you in the car," the German officer added. "If anyone goes missing,
you
will all be shot, like dogs." Elie writes, My father was crying. It was
the first time I
saw him cry. I had never thought it possible.


The Nazis passed laws that
circumscribed what Jews could do. They
passed a law that Jews must wear Jewish stars on their
outer clothing to
identify themselves as Jews. Wiesel writes that in response to this law, his

father said, "The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal €¦" (Poor Father! Of what
then
did you die?)

The local police who worked with the
Nazis were often
instrumental in enforcing the various Aryanization laws and
the Nuremberg Laws. The Hungarian
police were screaming. That was when I
began to hate them€¦They were our first oppressors.
Wiesel writes:


"The same day, the Hungarian police
burst into
every Jewish home in town: a Jew was henceforth forbidden to own gold, jewelry,
or
any valuables. Everything had to be handed over to the authorities, under
penalty of death. My
father went down to the cellar and buried our
savings."


During the roundup of Jews,
it was forbidden to go outside, so people relieved
themselves in a corner.
During the long march to the death camps, Nazi law forbade Jews to
stray.
According to :

One by one,
the
houses emptied and the streets filled with people carrying bundles. By
ten o'clock, everyone was
outside. The police were taking roll calls, once,
twice, twenty times. The heat was oppressive.
Sweat streamed from people's
faces and bodies. Children were crying for water. Water! There was
water
close by inside the houses, the backyards, but it was forbidden to break
rank.


At the camp were more laws. Days
without food or water. We were
forbidden to leave the barrack. The door was
guarded by the SS. In addition, Wiesel writes that,
We were forbidden to sit
down or to move.

The penalty for breaking the law
was
steep and generally involved some form of execution. Wiesel notes that a prisoner
was
condemned to hang for stealing:

"In the name of
Reichsf¼hrer
Himmler€¦prisoner number€¦ stole during the air raid€¦according
to the law€¦prisoner number€¦is
condemned to death. Let this be a warning and
an example to all prisoners."


Nobody
moved."

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