What were the rules the Jews had to obey in WW2?

Question

What were the rules the Jews had to follow?

Eg: the curfew ect.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Each country imposed different rules.  In Poland, for example, the German program for Polish Jews was one of concentration, isolation, and eventually, annihilation. Initially they forced the Polish Jews from the annexed territories and from all rural and smaller urban areas into large, overcrowded urban centers.

Now in large concentrations, they isolated them from Polish society into sealed ghettos--walled-off cities within cities--where they had to endure appalling living conditions. Governing each ghetto was the n**i-mandated Jewish Council, or Judenrat, whose members were former Jewish community leaders.

While aspiring to alleviate the tremendous suffering of ghetto inhabitants, they actually played into the hands of the n***s, making their job of annihilation easier. Eventually the German authorities deported the debilitated ghetto populations to concentration camps specifically built to kill people on an unprecedented scale.

Chronology of Some of the Anti-Jewish Measures in Poland:

October 1939:

Jews are liable for forced labor. They can be picked up off the streets for work at manual labor jobs such as digging ditches, shoveling snow, and cleaning streets.

Synagogues destroyed throughout General Gouvernement.

Jews forbidden from certain areas of major cities in General Gouvernement.

There are many more, which you can read here:  http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/M...

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HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST - TIME LINE

This link (below) will explain MANY of the conditions, year, etc of what Hitler imposed.  Interesting reading.

http://remember.org/educate/mtimeline.ht...

Answer 2

They couldn't own a radio

They had a curfew

They had to wear a yellow star of david pinned to their clothing

They couldn't go into restaurants

They couldn't sit on park benches

They had their bicycles taken away

They only got the leftover food from the shops

They couldn't run a business

They couldn't ride buses or streetcars

Answer 3

there were no rules for them at all. they were sent out from each country that they have been in, those who were found were sent to jails or/and executed. however during ww2 there was a curfew for every citizen of respective countries. jews had limited human rights at the time.

Answer 4

to not eat greedy pigs

Answer 5

Man, they barely had any freedom at all, especially in Germany and Poland!

They were terrible times. You've named the main ones... when Hitler and his n**i party came into power, they didn't straight away start rounding up Jews and putting them in Concentration Camps. What they did though was terrible...

For a start (and you have named some of them) Jews were deprived of privileges amongst the community. I suppose you could say that they were 'segregated.' Like you said, Jews were not allowed in many shops, they had to be indoors by around 5-6 PM, and they were not allowed to ride public transport. What I find really quite sickening was how Jewish children were treated. For instance, I read a brief story of this Holocaust survivor, who wrote that she was a Jew who attended a German school. She went on to explain that every lesson, she had to turn her desk around to face the back of the wall, and that she could not contribute in lessons. Jewish men and women were not allowed in markets, or allowed to walk on the pavement and visit their hairdressers. Jews were not allowed to visit the cinema, the park, etc. In fact, people became so suspicious and obsessed with the 'amount' of Jews within Germany that the general public began stopping, searching and inspecting anyone on the streets who didn't have blonde hair and blue eyes (the perfect Aryan description). For instance, the Hitler Youths (Hitler's young soldier's) would demand anyone they suspected of being a Jew to recite the Hail Mary. If the child or adult could not do so, they would be beaten. Horrific....

Basically, we can say that Jews in the community were TOTALLY shunned upon. It came to a point where even their property was seized by the n**i's! Many Jewish families came home and found that all there possessions were lying on the pavement, and a German family had settled in to their home. This happened more commonly in houses and not apartments. These poor people were forced to walk the streets with their families, nearly always close to starvation.

I read a book recently called 'Words to Outlive Us.' It's about stories of the war. I remember one story where a man, his wife and two children was evicted from their apartment because he and his family were Jews. They were wandering the streets for days, until his children died of disease and starvation. I can't remember what happened to him, however his wife became trapped in a Ghetto (a sealed off area of a city where Jews were kept). Oh yeah, I just remembered... Jews also had their citizenship removed if they lived in Germany, and soon Poland when it was taken over by the n**i's.

So yeah, it was totally horrible :( Sorry I've sort of given you examples. I would end off with saying that the Jews were totally de-humanized. They were stripped of their rights. It happened even more when they arrived in the concentration camps. By this I mean they were given a number tattooed, and they were addressed by that from there on.

I hope this helped!

-Tim

Answer 6

in depends on where and when. E.g in Nuremberg Laws in Germany stated that "Jews were banned from working for the state or being employed as lawyers, doctors or journalists. Jews were prohibited from using hospitals and could not be educated past the age of 14. Public parks, libraries, beaches were closed to Jews. War memorials were to have Jewish names expunged. Even the lottery could not award winnings to Jews.Jews were required to adopt a middle name: "Sara" for women and "Israel" for men. Their identification cards were required to have a large "J" stamped on them." (direct quote from Wikipedia)

"By 1935, Jews and Germans were forbidden mixed marriage by law, as they were denied civil rights and access to the the courts. Mixed couples were often in distress when one was set for deportation and degradation, and one was allowed to stay as a free citizen in Germany: some even chose deportation and the killing centers over separation from spouses and children: others sought avenues of hiding family members or aiding escapes.In the ghettos, many Judenrats were forced into policies and laws regarding a ban on Jewish offspring and pregnancy. A woman already pregnant entering the ghetto could have the child, but in some ghettos, if a woman became pregnant, she was required to have an abortion: if she did not willingly have one, it was forced upon her, so intent were the n***s on putting an end to the Jewish race. The camps were the same, only worse: infants born in camps such as Auschwitz were immediately put to death or used in experimentation, therefore many Jewish midwives would smother or drown newborns and tell the mothers their children had been stillborn. A live baby meant both mother and child would be destroyed in the gas chambers. Couples were also separated in the camps: partly this was due to difference in labor divisions, and partly to avoid married couples having children. The aim was clearly a generation that would see an end to Jewish youth."(direct quote from http://www.shoaheducation.com/pNEW.html#...

Jews had to move to ghettos. They were stripped of their businesses and possessions, and forced to wear the yellow badge.  There was supposed to be no contact between ghetto inhabitans and non-Jewish people, also commercial. In some ghettos the only currency was special ghetto currency, which was supposed to make such commercial contact even harder. Synagogues were ordered closed and Jews had to turn all their relics and valuables over to the n**i authorities.

That of course is not all the regulations Jews had to obey, but I hope it helps:)

Answer 7

in germany the rules were die fast, die painfully, die silently.

not sure about elsewhere...

Answer 8

I don't know about curfews and stuff but I know that they had to wear bands around their arms with the jewish star or maybe it was a yellow band, I don't remember but I know that it stated that they where jewish and if they where cought without it then they will be punished... I know that they had to give up their house and stores that they owned... but that's all I remember... hope this helps :D  

Answer 9

No big noses,no girls who don't put out and no questioning the price of things...