Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany’s
largest concentration camp and
extermination camp
T
o understand better about
who the Jews really are, let
me bring you to the time
when it all started. Tracing
back to their origins, the people of
Israel or particularly known as the
Jewish people have long established
the belief that there is only one
God, the creator of the universe.
Prophet Abraham and his son,
Prophet Isaac as well as grandson
Prophet Jacob also recognized as
“Israel”, are referred to as the patri-
archs (fathers) of the Israelites. All
three patriarchs lived in the Land
of Canaan, which then came to be
known as the Land of Israel.
The major threats that the
Jewish people faced in exile start-
ed from the exodus from Egypt,
slavery in Babylon, followed by
Romans prosecution, Spanish
inquisition and culminating in the
gas-chambers of the Holocaust in
Europe. Jews have been oppressed
in every single century. Why are
they being oppressed? What have
they done to deserve this horrif-
ic consequences? From the past
events since the first Jews to the
Nazis time, the Jewish community
have always been oppres