The Jewish Faith By: Teresa Weigeshoff
About Judaism ●Term denoting religious beliefs of Jews ● Monotheistic religion ● Sacred Text: Torah ● Symbols ➢ Magen David (Star of David) ➢ Menorah
Worship ▪Where? ➢ Synagogues ▪What? ➢ The God of the Old Testament ▪Who's in charge ➢ Rabbis
Why the Jews? The Nazis believed in “master race” ➢ (Aryan) Nuremburg Laws ➢ Legalized Anti-Semitism Jews considered race wanting world dominance- competition
The Holocaust ●Nazis boycotted Jewish businesses ●About 6 Million Jews Murdered ➢ Concentration Camps ➢ Death Camps ●Every Jewish community in occupied Europe suffered losses
The Holocaust ●Around 400,000 Jews escaped before Holocaust ●Jews Defined as: ➢ 3 Jewish Grandparents ➢ 2 Jewish Grandparents & belonged to Jewish Community ➢ Married to or Child of a Jew
●“Final Solution” ➢ Nazis plan to exterminate the Jews ●Jews kept in Ghettos Prior to Camps ●Many Jews took part in armed resistances against Nazis The Holocaust
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