What were the effects of the Holocaust on Jews?

Question

in depth answers, not just that people died i know that, I am needing facts about the emotional, physical and religious effects of the holocaust on jews.

Answer 1

It was the opposite of helpful.

Answer 2

There were serious long-term medical problems experienced by those who survived the concentration camps, suffering malnutrition, disease, and abuse.

A positive effect (if one must think anything positive could come from this), is the world agreeing to allowing the Jewish people to return to their heritage (Israel) and have protection against anyone doing this again. A new nation was born as a result. What was learned by the Jews is how religous intolerance can lead to such atrocities, so Israel allows people of all beliefs, and Jews are not required to follow the traditional, Orthodox customs and beliefs. So there are varios sects of Judaism. To be a Jew is a hereditary issue, rather than one of belief. So there is great religious freedom among the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

The remnant of the Jews finally came home, in fulfillment of prophecy. But there has been no peace for them and the world in general looks upon them with enmity. They still fight for the right to exist. Many Muslims and Middle East leaders have sworn to destroy Israel. The former King Hussein of Jordan (his son is now king since he died) wrote a book titled "My War with Israel" in which he relates being a young prince and having lunches with Adolph Hitler. He states in the book that Hitler was a brilliant man, with excellent ideas, and that he was just misunderstood by the world. He approved of the holocaust and expressed his hatred of Israel. This is the type of mentality that puts Israel, and thus the Jews at great risk, even after the WWII Holocaust. Sadaam Hussein who was the tyrannical leader of Iraq idolized Hitler and his methods.

So even post WWII, the world is not a safe place to be Jewish. In a world that preaches "tolerance" the two groups that is it acceptable to persecute and make fun of are the Jews, and the Christians. Isn't it odd that the two groups who worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would be the two groups that Hollywood is still making fun of? Kinda makes me wonder why. And why is a little plot of desert in the Middle East so disputed, when it's the only place with no oil?

Sue

Answer 3

First, obviously, there are the many millions who were killed.

Then there were those who survived the camps - often traumatized, and emotionally scarred for life, some suffered "survivor's guilt" for the rest of their lives. (e.g. Primo Levi) Or, in the case of Elie Weisel, the loss of his belief in god.

Nazi persecution also lead to a further spreading of the Jewish diaspora - the excellent little book "The Bialy Eaters" follows makers of the distinctive Polish bread from their home of Bialystock to the various places - North and South America, Australia - that they wind up after the war. (And there are now only a handful of Jews left in all of Bialystock.)

And lastly, of course, was the formation of the state of Israel as a Jewish homeland, to provide a permanent refuge from further persecutions and pogroms.

Answer 4

the holocaust had , of course, never to forget effects on the Jews but it did not stop there. My Catholic Belgian mother went to her death feeling guilty that we, as Belgians, did not fight the Germans more when we knew there were camps in Belgium.

Answer 5

It gave them the ability to extort millions of dollars form many European countries.

Answer 6

http://www.aaets.org/article96.htm

http://www.billwilliams.org/HOLOCAUST/holocaust.html#3

What Hell these poor people went thru. These sites will help you to understand a little better what they went thru and the pyschological effects it had on them and there families and future families.

Answer 7

6 million were killed.

Poperty taken, businesses taken, money in their bank accounts taken,

Families torn apart, Jews displaced all over the world.

Answer 8

Uhh err, death, starvation, torture, humiliation. But it wasn't just Jews, the nazis had a few groups they had problems with.

Answer 9

Are you serious?

They were murdered. By the millions.