“Achoti”

My podcast is about a conversation between a brother and a sister. They are very close, but disagree on a lot of things. They don’t really have much communication about what they disagree about. “Agree to disagree.” The sister is orthodox and shares how she handles the challenges that come with it. She talks about her children and how she has raised them. She also talks about who she is and the judgment she gets for the way she dresses and the decisions shes made. The sister is very accepting of any type of Jew, and is able to still have a good connection with her family.

I chose this podcast because achoti means my sisters and I really wanted to learn about there relationship and there lifestyles.

Here is the link to the podcast https://israelstory.org/episode/bonus-achoti-my-sister/

The purpose of the Nuremberg laws was to primarily marginalized Jews. The Germans wanted them to be disconnected from there society, so they made these laws to push them out and take away their rights and freedoms.

One of the laws prevented Jews from voting and having any position in Germany’s government. This took away any say the Jews had in their government and society.

The laws contributed to creating the type of “national community” the Germans wanted by making two groups. They made the national community and the other group. The other group was the group that the laws affected and who were pushed out of society. The Germans only put who they wanted in their national society and no one else.

These laws influenced the actions of the German people because it gave people the idea that they were better then the other group. It made them feel of higher power, so they acted like they were better and treated the people in the other group as if they were nothing. This also affected the people in the other group because it took away their ability to have any say or power in Germans Democracy. They were stripped from their rights and freedoms. They just had to do what they were told and not fight back. This means that they were no longer apart of Germans society. There were marginalized.

Their lives and beliefs might have been changed as a result of the laws because they no longer became apart of society. There way of living changed, they no longer felt safe in Germans society because they couldn’t stand up for themselves and fight back. Everything they said and did was used against them.

The wave is about a class and a teacher named Mr. Ross. Mr. Ross makes an experiment to teach his class about the Nazi party. He created something called the wave. It was a group he created in has class that had the main idea of power through discipline.

Before watching the video I was very confused why people back then would want to join a party that supported such hatred. The video showed that once you give people power they will join and do everything to be  better then everyone else. One example of this was Robert. Robert was a very shy and quiet student. Mr. Ross started to call on him and give him power and attention. He uses it as an opportunity to get popular and have power. This connects to the Holocaust and the Nazi party because it shows that people back then were in a very hard time. It was after the great depression and many people were unemployed. They were looking for any opportunity to get back to a stable way of life. They found a few good things and then became a part of the party because they were very desperate.

This video gave me a head experience. It helped me realize why people would want join such a party and gave me a new perspective of the situation before the Holocaust.