October 9

Lia Benjamin, Evreii din România între anii 1940-1944, vol 1, Editura Hasefer, 1993

Motto: "Whoever Forgets Is Not Worth It"

Professor Grigore Georgeta Theoretical High School Dr. Mihai Ciucă, Săveni-Botoșani

The Holocaust is a Hebrew word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice." The term "Holocaust" is conventionally referring to all the crimes committed by the Nazis and their allies against several categories of victims: Jews, Gypsies, opponents, etc. But the Jews suffered the most. Hate against the Jews, which to some extent existed before Christ, has been spread over the centuries through the Christian Church. In the Middle Ages, when the term "anti-Semitism" ("hatred of Jews") did not exist, it was selfevident that "the Jew is not allowed to live among us as a Jew." However, the Jews escaped persecution if they renounced their faith and converted to Christianity. From the beginning of anti-Semitic politics, an image of the wicked Jew is created, who desecrates communion, poisons wells, generally a tool of evil. Repeated over the centuries, these clichés have become deeply ingrained in popular beliefs and regularly trigger persecutions that often end in massacres. , it was not difficult for Hitler to convince the masses of the justice of their extermination. The fact that "the Jew is not allowed to live" was a decision whose secret was kept to the end by Hitler's confidents. Not even the Jews understood what awaited them, but this was largely due to the fact that the illnesses against them were nothing new. Approximately 6 million Jews perished in the extermination camps: Auschwitz, Belzec, Maidanek, or the death camps were the "grave of several Jews." The fact that Consolidated anti-Semitism acquired its racist character at the end of the 19th century and was elevated to the rank of politics by Adolf Hitler - the "pure race". When the Nazis came to power in 1933, religion had ceased to be a hallmark of the Jew, now only blood was considered. He was no longer of profound importance to a Jew, and several generations had been baptized against him, a few drops of Jewish blood were enough to be pointed at. From that moment the motto had become: "the Jew is not allowed to live among us." But as no country wanted to receive German Jews, plans for a "final solution" were drawn up, and Hitler's motto became: "The Jew is not allowed to live." Accusing the Jews of a worldwide conspiracy in which the accusations of communism and capitalism were thrown togethersome Jews managed to survive was due to pure chance and the end of the war that came sooner than Hitler had thought.