The adversities and resistance of European Jews in The PianistIn their first attempt to assert their superiority, the Nazis, after having occupied Poland, ordered the Jewish people to always wear Star of David badges on their clothing to indicate their identity in public. The aim was to highlight the inferiority of the Jews compared to the Aryan race, while at the same time helping German citizens to identify insubordinate Jews. Failure to display the badge on clothing would have had serious repercussions, the most common of which would have been execution, if the Nazis had found out. Władysław Szpilman's family is mostly against wearing the Star of David, especially Szpilman's dissident brother Henryk, who refuses to bow down and give in to the Nazis in any way. However, Władysław is more cautious in his actions because he recognizes the consequences of rejecting the Nazis' mandate. Another imperious attempt by the Nazis to subjugate the Jewish population of Poland was to confine them to the Warsaw Ghetto. Although the Warsaw Ghetto was one of the largest ghettos in Nazi Germany during the war, its population density was alarming. The Germans were indifferent to the suffering of the Jews in the ghetto and, as depicted in the film, added insult to injury by brutally assaulting some inhabitants (such as the boy near the wall whose beating and subsequent death was witnessed by Władysław). The Nazis' last attempt to control the Jews was to send them to concentration camps. Jews were not allowed to keep any personal items on trains to the camps, and anyone who questioned the reasoning would be shot dead. As in the ghettos, Jews were confined to extremely compact spaces in the train waiting area. Then, finally, in the concentration camps (and later in the extermination camps), the Jews were worked and starved to death, or they were sent to the "showers", where they were killed using noxious gas (Zyklon B). Although these conditions in the camps were not fully depicted in the film, it can be assumed that Szpilman's family endured these horrendous conditions. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay The Nazis put Jews like Itzhak Heller in a high position in the ghetto because there is a huge percentage of Jews in Warsaw compared to the Nazis. Since there were a few hundred thousand Jews in the ghetto, the Nazis would not have been able to maintain order on their own. Productivity was necessary to keep the ghetto relatively stable. Therefore, they ordered Jews of their choosing to manage the daytime operations of the ghetto, including food packaging, construction, and security. Throughout the film there are scenes in which the Jews do not react aggressively to the wrongdoings of the Nazis. While Jews waited in line to enter the Warsaw Ghetto, Nazi officials teased some Jews by ordering them to dance. It was extremely embarrassing for the Jews, but they did not react because the Nazis would simply execute them and other Jews to set an example. When Szpilman worked in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Nazis randomly selected a handful of Jews to execute. The Jews on the line of execution did not resist at all because they realized that it would be futile to resist. The Nazis were armed and dangerous, while they were essentially defenseless. The Jews probably thought that the resistance would be futile if they did not cooperate en masse, as they later did.