A main pillar of Jewish belief is that nothing happens in a vacuum. Meaning everything happens for a reason and has an underlying meaning itself. History has a meaning, oppression has a meaning, and suffering has a meaning. They are people whose essence has a meaning. It is the lifeblood of who they are and what they stand for as a nation. Saying this, it would be easy to say that the Holocaust must have a meaning as well and must have happened for a reason. After all the suffering and the pain of the Holocaust, some Jews would say there lie the seeds of understanding their unique mission as Jews, even today. This does not suggest that any one explanation will ever fully help us come to terms with the persecution and mu

Work of course was not anymore pleasant. Millions were forced to work under inhuman conditions in Nazi Industry as slave laborers. Prisoners dug ditches and trenches. They worked on the railroads, even carried the dead to their “graves.” They were sent on long marches just to get to their work areas. If one man fell, all suffered. You were lucky for the man who helped you stand up before the guard had a chance to notice. That man just saved you from being beat with the butt of a rifle. He saved you from humiliation.

During World War II, approximately eleven million Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other Eastern Europeans and people of other nationalities and religions were “systematically” exterminated during the Nazi Holocaust. Men, women, and children were forced and driven out of their homes simply because of their race. Jews were forced to wear symbols on their sleeves. Tattooed numbers were branded on the hands of those “sentenced” into camps. This number became their identity. From then on they were only known as the number. Nobody dared to care of your name and your background.

The Holocaust certainly upset moral thought in many ways. First the Holocaust forced impurities such as discrimination and nationalism to be wrung out. These often accompanied traditional morality. The Holocaust made moral values such as value of one’s identity and selfhood more important. Most importantly, it challenged defective moral thought.

As if the working conditions were horrendous enough, sleeping was no more of a tea party. Men were squashed together on cold wooden floors. Two or more men would share a blanket, if they were lucky enough to be given one at all. Had a man fallen asleep only to involve himself involuntarily in a nightmare, it was not uncommon to leave him alone yelling in his sleep. “At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact

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