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A Living Survivor: The Life of Inga Berkey

This is a biographical paper that I wrote on Inga Berkey who is a Jewish refugee who went to Shanghai. A Living Survivor: The Life of Inga Berkey During World War Two treatment of Jewish people wasn’t the nicest. Jewish individuals were targets of antisemitic acts in a nonviolent manner but the night of November 9, 1938 a pogrom which we now refer to as Kristallnacht or “the night of broken glass” happened. Kristallnacht was a turning point in the treatment of Jewish individuals progressing from non-violent acts to more viciously violent events. Individuals who were targeted in Kristallnacht were captured by the Nazis and shipped off to various concentration camps where they were forced to perform hard labor in camps like Buchenwald or worse, they were sent to concentration camps like Auschwitz where they were killed. Most of the people taken to these camps either died or never saw their families again and never knew what happened to those who were taken away by soldiers until l
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Survival in Shanghai: Finding Strength in Identity and Transportation

This response paper was written in response to the question of identity and transportation to Shanghai, China. Survival in Shanghai: Finding Strength in Identity and Transportation As I have learned more of the history surrounding the Jewish Shanghai refugees, I have become inspired by the immense strength and bravery that so many of the refugees have shown throughout their journey. They have done things that I couldn’t imagine doing and I am older than some of the people in these stories. Some of the things individuals went through included traveling alone at a young age, facing pressure from the government to get divorced, hiding their identity, being stripped of their identity with different laws that were passed, and being forced to uproot their family and leave everything they knew to seek safety in another country because their own country shut the doors on them. Perhaps one of the saving graces for Jewish refugees was the immigration quota in respect of how individuals
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The Never-Ending Night of Glass

This first paper is a response to an interview by Harry J. Abraham expressing his concerns about Kristallnacht reoccurring and we are just ignoring the signs. The Never-Ending Night of Glass For my second response paper I chose to focus on the Harry Abraham interview’s on Blackboard. In the interviews he discussed a wide variety of topics but one remark that stood out to me the most is where Harry expressed a fear that events like Kristallnacht could occur again and he is able to see similarities between then and now. In recent years there has been a rise of anti-Semitic acts committed against Jewish people around the world. In the following pages I will look at the treatment of Jewish people before and leading up to Kristallnacht, Harry Abraham’s concerns of an event like Kristallnacht happening again and use current anti-Semitic events in the news to see what similarities there could be. Beginning in 1933 Jewish people living in Germany were required to become submissive to
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