There was gas chambers that could fit roughly 2000 people. They slept in huge barracks which were originally for around 250 people but in ended up housing about 1000 people. The Holocaust ended up starting
Jews usually work in the camp and did outside labor like factories, construction projects, farms or coal mines (Vashem). They walked miles to get to their work. If they did not corporate they were shot on sight. 11 million Jews were killed in the holocaust(Rosenberg). Miep Gies was living in Amsterdam almost all her life.
Concentration camps were used during the holocaust to incarcerate, torture, and kill Jewish men, women, and children. In March of 1933, the first concentration camp named Dachau opened outside of Munich, Germany. It was primarily used for political prisoners and was the longest running camp, until its liberation in April 1945. These camps largely affected Canada as many lost loved ones and close friends due to the brutality of the torturous
There were many different kinds of camps including concentration camps, extermination camps, forced labor camps, and even prisoner of war camps. Concentration camps are one of the most commonly known of these. Torture was a very large factor in all of the early camps and the inmates inside the camps were all regularly beaten and or humiliated. In addition to this, access to facilities was often withheld as a form of torture and control. In the concentration camps, inmates were subjected to brutal torture and beatings almost daily along with many different forms of hard back-breaking labor.
Why were Concentration camps used? The Concentration camps were used to hold Jews as “Captives”. They held all sorts of Jews such as Socialists, Communist, and other political Prisoners. Jews, Homosexuals, Priests, and Ministers. They would keep them there working until they were unable to work, or they died of starvation.
The first concentration camps in Germany were established not long after Adolf Hitler became head of government in January 1933. The SA also known as Sturmabteilung were commonly known as Storm Troopers and the SS or Schutzstaffel were the main leaders of the camps and they set the camps up. After December 1934, the SS became the only agency allowed to establish and manage facilities that were once called concentration camps. Even after forced labor the SS still kept the prisoners malnourished and mistreated them. Where the Jews had lived and how they had lived were a big part of the Holocaust.
The Horrors of Auschwitz The Holocaust, which started in 1933 and continued to 1945 was an awful time where Jews were murdered and sent to concentration camps to die. In Poland one of the largest concentration camps, Auschwitz, where 1.3 million people died. Auschwitz, the death camp, was a horrible place where many people died, lost hope, and were stripped of civilization all because of their religion and race.
The first concentration camps were made in 1933. The purpose of concentration camps is not nearly as bad as what it was live to live in one. Jews went through an everyday struggle to stay alive and very made it through till the end. Concentration camps were horrible to use against Jews.
Originally the German government passed laws to exclude Jews from society, most prominently the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. A network of concentration camps was built starting in 1933 and ghettos were built following the outbreak of World War II in 1939. In 1941, as Germany conquered new territory in eastern Europe, specialized paramilitary units called Einsatzgruppen were used to kill around two million Jews and "partisans", mostly in mass shootings. By the end of 1942, victims were being systematically moved by freight trains to specially built murder camps where, if they survived the journey, most were regularly murdered in gas chambers. The campaign of extermination continued until the end of World War II in Europe in
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 Jews did not really start being placed in concentration camps until 1934. The reason for this is because that is when the SS got its independence from the SA, which meant the SS could do more of what the Nazis asked them to do(CONCENTRATION). The concentration camps were awful. The prisoners were forced to do a useless and hard task.
Hitler first sent the Jews to concentration camps, which about 20,000 concentration camps were built by Nazi Germany. The main camps were the ones of Auschwitz. Auschwitz concentration camps were located 37 west of Krakow. There were three main camps (Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III), each deployed
By the end of the war, there were some 50,000 up to 100,000 survivors that were living in occupied Europe. Auschwitz was the camp that happened to occur the most death out of all the other camps. Thousands of Nazis commited suicide during 1945, as they were taught. After the removal of Adolf Hitler, within’ a year, the population of survivors grew up to over 200,000 survivors. During the holocaust, Adolf hitler murdered millions of people.
This was such a tragic time in history and we should all be thankful that our world isn 't like this. 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.
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
