Jewish Responses to the Holocaust
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Jewish Responses to the Holocaust Yr 9 Assessment 1a. Some Jews believed that God had "abandoned" them during and after the Holocaust. They believed this because beliefs claim that a Covenant was made between the Jewish religion and God to make sure Jews would go to the promise land if they were to trust and obey the Lord God. If this were true then the Jews were being betrayed and God had broken the Covenant between them. I personally believe that God did not abandon the Jews and that he was testing them as he did with Jobe. (See Jobe's story in the Bible) In the tale of Jobe God was testing Jobe's faith and making sure that not matter what happened he still believed and enforced the Lord God. The Holocaust was the slaughter of roughly six million Jews in Nazi, Germany. This tested the faith of many and caused the...

