The Holocaust, a moment in the history of fear, survival, hiding, and death. A time of one of the most feared actions taking place globally, World War II. Many people believe that the Holocaust did not exist, but it was very, very, real indeed. The Holocaust is the most unforgettable event that all survivors could not remove from their mind, it was used as an extermination process for Jews(Allen 6). Many say that there was an alternate path that could have been taken to avoid the war, and they are correct, there were multiple ways to avoid both World War ll and the Holocaust, but humanity and society were blinded by fear and bloodthirst, they really are not to blame, it was the most brutal events in human history(Vail 9). The Holocaust is a time in history when millions of people were persecuted in
Imagine a life where you are face to face with death and fear, sitting in camps wondering if that day would be your last. In 1933 the holocaust started. The holocaust was the time of death and fear. In the end about six million Jews were killed and imprisoned. They were captured and sent to concentration camps and extermination camps. The extermination camps were the worst and once people got their they were immediately killed. While in concentration camps they were used to do slave jobs and hoped to not be chosen to go on "marches" that they would never return from. The best way to get through this time was taking it day by day and having hope. The spirit does triumph and Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum, and Syvia Perlmutter are great examples of people who kept hope during the holocaust. They found hope in different ways such as being with family, writing letters or diary entries, and by finding the good in things.
The camp served three main purposes. One being to, imprison enemies of the Nazi ,the second was to provide supply of forced labor and the last reason was to eliminate groups seen as unfit for survival including the Jews, Gypsies, and Poles. Between 1933 and 1945 more than 40,000 camps and other stations were made to force hard labor and mass murder of many Jews. The first kinds of camps started in 1933 by the Nazi, they were “detention centers”. Later they were called concentration camps because those who were imprisoned there were physically “concentrated” in one location. In the years 1938-1939 the Nazi
There are many different types of camps in the world but there are two different types of camps that can be considered the same thing, there is Japanese Internment camps and there is Nazi Concentration camps. Japanese Internment camps and Nazi Concentration camps are two different things. One of the camps was made just to contain the Japanese until they sweared their allegiance. The other was made to kill the jews and make them work until they can no longer, witch ever comes first.
During World War ll the Nazi's used concentration camps to kill Jews, elderly, gypsies, and much more innocent people. One of these death camps was Auschwitz. One interesting thing about Auschwitz is the physical location. Another interesting thing about Auschwitz is the train ride to get them. Finally the last interesting thing about Auschwitz is the ways they killed the prisoners. The physical camp of Auschwitz experienced torture in two main ways by killing the prisoners and the ride to arrive there.
Over 11 million civilians were murdered in between the time period of January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945. These innocent people were murdered in various, inhumane ways such as firing line, terrible living conditions, gassing with the use of carbon dioxide and Zyklon B, and forcing people to work until death. The Holocaust is one of, if not the darkest time in the history of human life on Earth. Many people committed suicide or suicide by guard because they did not and could not stand the conditions they were forced to live in. Most knew what their fate was and when it came time for them to meet their fate, they would kill themselves or have guards kill them. Auschwitz was the main camp everyone knew about, but there were other camps that were unknown or forgotten such as Chelmno or Belzec.
Jews were moved to the camps to either work or be killed (Veil 113). The Nazis also wanted to keep the children, but only twins because the Nazi scientist wanted to experiment on them (Veil 115). The Nazis had a plan called the System of Death where they told all the Jews that they were going to take showers and clean off and the Nazis took them to a medium sized room where they all stripped down getting ready for showers. The Nazis would then put some Zyklon B pellets into the chamber where it reacted with the oxygen in the air and turned into chlorine gas and all the Jews were dead in minutes. They then would force some other Jews to carry the bodies to the crematorium where the bodies would be
The Concentration Camps were made because Hitler hated the jews and wanted to kill all and they were kind of brainwashing them to tell them it is a wonderful place to live. When they were making the camps the Nazis would go around just shooting people for no reason. So Hitler and the Nazis captured the majority of the Jews and put them into these camps saying they should be here and that they deserve to died and it is all their fault. So when they took power in 1933 over Germany, they were killing more and more Jews as they could by now no one was safe, I bet a lot of people were trying to move away so they didn 't have to go to the camps. There wasn’t just Jews there at the camps there was also Americans there too. Hitler basically made the camps to torture people and to kill them too. That was probably his idea of fun on his way.
The first concentration camp in the Nazi system, Dachau, opened in March, 1933. By the end of World War II, the Nazis gave a huge system of more than 40,000 camps that stretched across Europe from the French-Spanish border into the conquered Soviet territories, and as far south as Greece and North Africa. The largest number of prisoners were Jews, but people were arrested and locked in prison for a variety of reasons, including family, cultural characteristics and political association. Prisoners were subjected to unbelievable terrors from the moment they arrived in the camps it was a terrible existence that involved a struggle for survival against a system designed to destroy them.
The concentration camps were awful. The prisoners were forced to do a useless and hard task. One of those tasks was moving large stones out of the river. If a person could not complete the task they were shot or beaten(Strahinich 33). The worst of all the camps was Auschwitz. If a Jew was being sent or taken to that camp, they knew that meant they would be killed. By gas chambers or hard labor At Auschwitz, thousands of people would die each day(Blohm 16). In the many or all of the camps disease, starvation, torture, experimentation, and hard labor was common for the captives(Steele
The death camps were places where the detainees would be taken into chambers where toxic gas would be released and the prisoners would just drop dead. The “Final Solution” was one of the key elements that the Nazi Society believed in. Though at the beginning of the Nazi occupation of Europe work camps were the places where the prisoners were forced to work long grueling hours, later in the occupation they started to use death camps to help them in the “Final Solution”. According to the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Millions of people were imprisoned and abused in the various types of Nazi camps. Under SS management, the Germans and their collaborators murdered more than three million Jews in the killing centers alone. Only a small fraction of those imprisoned in Nazi camps survived. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 1)”. The prisoners were tortured in ways beyond imagination. A special few prisoners would be selected by Nazi doctors, who would then perform dangerous medical experiments on them. The Nazi’s would also beat the Jews and do many treacherous things to them. In conclusion, the Nazi work and death camps were dreadful and affected many the lives of many Jewish families in
Did you realized that from the early 1942’s to the late 1944’s, at least 1.1 million prisoners died at Auschwitz?Auschwitz was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built by the Third Reich in polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during WWII.Genocide at extermination camps was initially carried out in the form of mass shooting. However, the shootings provide to be psychologically damaging to those who are being asked to pull the triggers. The Nazis next then tried mass killing by blowing victims up with explosives.Concentration camps were a horrific part of WWII because of Hitler’s dislike for Jews. The Jews had no shoes, not that much food, and poor clothing.
According to Teresa Świebockas findings, “In 1933 alone, about fifty concentration camps were established in Germany.”(Świebocka). Concentration camps were not much different than labor camps other than that they were mostly used as a type of prison. Prisoners in concentration camps were usually just there to await their death. In some of these camps, prisoners were forced to do work. The conditions of concentration camps made them stand out more than the others. Each barrack, which is where the prisoners slept, was supposed to hold about 40 prisoners, but ended up usually housing over 700. In most barracks, there were about 3 people per bed (Wiesel). They were made completely out of wood and prisoners didn’t have any mattresses, mostly a thin blanket or towel and sometimes they didn't have anything. There were big gaps in between the ground and the walls and there were only 2 stoves in each barrack, but the fuel was not provided. Because of this, it would get incredibly cold and many people died because of the harsh weather. The bathrooms were just holes in the ground with no way of a draining system which was not sanitary at all. Disease spread very quickly because of the horrible conditions and so many people died from
The Nazis created “concentration camps” as designated areas for Jews and other victims. The victims lived in the concentration camps and ended up spending their last days there. Horrifyingly enough, Nazis would gather children, men, and women to take a shower and lock them into a chamber with toxic gasses that killed them. There will never be an excuse for the genocide that Hitler and the Nazis created. To this day there is a remembrance of the poor suffering lives. The victims of the holocaust will always be remembered as strong victims that were murdered by vicious monsters, the Nazis. However, victims were treated as slave laborers by construction projects, such as expanding the camps. Prisoners in the camps “were used ruthlessly and without regard to safety at forced labor, resulting in high mortality rates.” (Holocaust
The paradox of being half ugly is shown all throughout Hitler 's actions. In WWII the entire Jewish population was the target for Hitler and his Nazis party. This led to millions of jews being persecuted and killed. One example of the ugliness of the war would be the discrimination and the hatred of other races. While in power Hitler created concentration camps to contain Jews and people not of German background. These camps “initially held around 45,000 prisoners” or “undesirable elements of German society, such as Jews, criminals, and homosexuals” (Wikipedia). Many people agreed that what Hitler was doing was righteous and true. Many people even joined in the massacre of the Jews. They believed that all the evil that was happening to the Jews,