![]() The night became known as The Night of Broken Glass. On 9 November 1938, Jewish shops and businesses in Nazi territories were attacked and destroyed. Thus the Nuremberg laws took away people’s freedom of religion and freedom to self-identify. The Nuremberg Laws in 1935 restricted who Jews could marry, and went further than that: they defined anyone who had three or four Jewish grandparents as a Jew, regardless of whether or not that person saw themselves as Jewish. Anti-Jewish legislation was passed, which denied Jews many freedoms and restricted their rights, starting with removing them from certain professions and schools and universities. ![]() In 1933 the Nazis came to power in Germany, and life became increasingly difficult for German Jews. Jewish shops and businesses were destroyed Here are some examples of ways in which the freedoms of people targeted during genocide are restricted, showing how fragile freedom is and how we must not be complacent about it.įreedom of religion and freedom to self-identify Eroding freedomįreedom is fragile and it cannot be taken for granted. 49 years after the Holocaust ended, 19 years after the genocide in Cambodia, the world stood by as Hutu extremists shattered the fragile freedom in Rwanda, following decades of tension and violence, culminating in the murder of over one million Tutsis in just one hundred days. Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Despite this, in every genocide there are those who risk their own freedom to help others, to preserve others’ freedom or to stand up to the regime. Not only do perpetrator regimes erode the freedom of the people they are targeting, demonstrating how fragile freedom is, they also restrict the freedoms of others around them, to prevent people from challenging the regime. There is always a set of circumstances which occur, or which are created, to build the climate in which genocide can take place and in which perpetrator regimes can remove the freedoms of those they are targeting. The ten stages of genocide, as identified by Professor Gregory Stanton, demonstrate that genocide never just happens. What is clear is that in every genocide that has taken place, those who are targeted for persecution have had their freedom restricted and removed, before many of them are murdered. Introductionįreedom means different things to different people. – Anne Frank, diary entry, Saturday 20 June, 1942 – reflecting back on May 1940 when the Germans arrived in the Netherlandsĭownload the Theme vision 1. Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees. That is when the trouble started for the Jews. Image: barbed wire fences at Auschwitz-Birkenau © Chris Jackson / Getty
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