ount of suffering that Jew?s have endured and still endure is devastating. Why is it that Jew?s have suffered the most? Why do Jew?s still suffer at the hands of others? I don?t think I will ever be able to understand that, no matter how much I read or learn. I do understand though, that through suffering came survival and commitment. Jew?s are committed to helping one another and never give up on themselves or mankind. Jew?s seem to be a very tight knit group, which is understandable, they have had to rely on eachother, throughout their whole existence. ?Oppression is what may have caused Jew?s to turn inward, toward eachother.? ( Byron Plumley, video 8). I think that statement is very accurate, Jewish people seem to trust only in one another, by doing so they have formed that strong sense of family and commitment, that they are so respected by. The aspect of God, in relation to Jew?s suffering, is confusing to me. In the bible, God repeatedly steps in to save the Jew?s from destruction by their enemies. He calls on Moses to lead his people out of Egypt and save all of their lives. He creates a homeland for Jew?s, He parts the Sea, He kills others in order to save the Jew?s, but where was God when six million Jewish people were brutally murdered during the Holocaust. I personally don?t believe all of the stories in the bible, but I?m sure that a good majority of those six million people did, it must have been an awful revelation that God was not there to help them. I realize that seems a little far-fetched of me to write, but it is the way I think. Where was God?s help then? Where did this hatred of Jew?s begin? Six million people killed, just because they were Jewish, unfathomable! When I was younger I was afraid to tell people I was Jewish, because I knew they wouldn?t like me or I would get teased. I am ashamed of that now, but then I just wanted to be like everyone else. The scariest ...
