Ghettos, Thresholds, and Crime

Ghettos, Thresholds, and Crime

Introduction

Man is endowed with free will that allows him to develop his natural powers, with the only limitation to this freedom, his own nature, but in society, this freedom is necessarily limited by the respect for freedom of other men, hence comes the need for standards or rules to ensure each member of the social body, with an equal measure, the exercise of their activity and development (Tewksbury, 2011).

The theory and existence of this principle is the LAW, in its most extensive. Therefore, the law as a set of rules binding on all members of society, which have been established by the State according to procedures previously established, allow the conviviality among all members of society together, the institutions of the state and the interplay of these and society. Of course, the manifestation of the right, in its practical and real, is by or through the law. She and the interests of society, for proper and legal coexistence between members of society and its relationship with state institutions, that the same law called crime (Hipp, & Yates, 2011).

Discussion

The testimonies of the ghetto have been inserted between history and memory, with a growing recognition of the indisputable testimonial literature as a source of historical reconstruction, while the memory retrieves and articulates the individual testimony to the collective destiny. Most of what is written in the ghettos was diaries or notes, in which daily life was expressed through the experience, feelings and thoughts of the writers. The papers presented, relatively detailed the events of each day with the spontaneity of the writer that lives. Unlike the memoirs written by Holocaust survivors, offering a reflection on the past and impose order and interpretation in historical memory, diaries written in the ghetto do not have a long intellectual reflection, emotional or personal, while unknown what will be the final solution (Blokland, 2011).

The newspapers express the decay processes experienced physical and moral ghettos between 1940 and 1944, reproducing the atmosphere experienced by the Jews, confined and isolated during that period. Preserve an individual experience that becomes, however, in the experience of an entire community that is subjected to a reality that is imposed: they seem to have been written by the same person, always the same, although there are significant differences between them (Tewksbury, 2011).

Warsaw Ghetto have survived the diary notes of Emmanuel Ringelblum, a historian who organized the clandestine files Oyneg Shabbes (celebrants of Shabbat), name of clandestine group he created to gather information that could serve as a documentary chronicling the destruction of Jewish life in Poland. His notes, found among the rubble of the ghetto in 1946 and 1950, are a record of the most important happening in the streets of the Warsaw ghetto. Political activist and social activist, Ringelblum was a privileged witness to what happened in the ghetto contact with refugees, soup kitchens administrators, officials of the Judenrat and other groups that inhabited the ghetto gave him a unique perspective to take a ...