The Holocaust :: essays research papers

"If we were not an immortal wad before, we are an eternal people after the Holocaust, in both its very(prenominal) positive and very negative sense. We have not only survived, we have revived ourselves. In a very real way, we have won. We were victorious. But in a very real way, we have lost. Well never recover what was lost. We cant assess what was lost. Who knows what sweetie and grandeur six million could have contributed to the world? Who can ginmill it up? What standard do you use? How do you count it? How do you estimate it...? We lost. The world lost, whether they know it or admit it. It doesnt make all difference. And yet we won, were going on." This quote is from the testimony of Fania Fenelon. The signs and symptoms that are among the Jews because of the Holocaust by all odds characterize abnormality. These abnormalities include the physical effect, the spiritual effects, and the second generation.          The physi cal effects were enormous among the Jews. The conditions of the camps defy description. The nutrition was worse than inadequate and the results being the long-familiar "musselmen" skeletons covered by skin. After the Jews in prison camps were freed, their diseases were treated as well as could be treated. Premature aging was one of the close prominent disabling effects of survivors. Digestive tract diseases were also very common because of the emotional disturbances and inadequate diet during their incarceration. The experience also set them at risk of coronary diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, and arteriosclerosis. All of this was consistent with the wrong aging and the atrophy of the heart muscle due to the extreme undernourishment during captivity.     Spiritual concerns also followed the survivors of the Holocaust. The Jews had to face up to one of the most galled realities of all...What it means to be a Jew. They had to decide whether or not to lie a Jew. The Holocaust had threatened the Jewish people near extinction. A anger directed towards the Non-Jewish world was intense because they had been persecuted by Gentiles. The Holocaust had caused an simply irreversible rupture in the Jewish-Christian relations. Jews tangle and still feel fierce because their expectations of a decent world were shattered into pieces by the most, supposedly, civilized people in the world. "Where was God?" wrote Elie Wiesel, a question asked many times among the Jews. They felt