What Happened in the Concentration Camps
During the holocaust they had concentration camps. Read this paper to learn about the concentration camps. The things that happened in the concentration camps were inhuman such as gassing people, forcing labor, and putting them in with fleas and lice. On of the things they did in the concentration camps were gassing the Jews as a way to kill them. They would be in a wash room washing off (men than women then children). While they were still naked the Nazis would move them in to then next room. The “next room was a building with no windows” (HTTP://WWW.EYEWITNESSTOHISTORY.COM/MAIDANEK.HTM). It was completely dark in there. In every building 200-250 people would fit in it. Within “2-10 minutes every one was dead in the buildings” (HTTP://WWW.EYEWITNESSTOHISTORY.COM/MAIDANEK.HTM).
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The stuff they did was horrible. After the Nazis would kill the people they would take the fat (if any) from the body. That is what they made the Jews make their soap out of. The work that they had the Jews do was “back-breaking and very dangerous” (http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005263). They “work to the bone literally” (http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005263). They had them build stone quarries and coal mines. The worst of all the Nazis put the Jews in with fleas and lice. The living conditions got so bad that they would get infested with the lice and fleas. The girls wouldn’t clean up because it protected them from the guys. They slept in straw and it collected the lice and fleas even more than anything else.
This evidence shows that what happened in the concentration camps were inhuman. It makes me cringe by just learning about the camps. The Jews were usually so skinny you could see all of their ribs, their hips, and their arm and leg
The Jews were put in trucks and then driven into the forest in Galicia. Where they were forced to dig their own pits. Then when they finished digging they would be killed and put in the pits then burned. Babies were thrown up in the air used for targets by the Nazis. The Nazis also had machinery, guns, and camps.
They also had bathrooms but not typical bathrooms they would have to make holes in the ground or have to do it in their wooden bunk. So when entered to their bunk it would smell really bad. The way the Jews were treated when coming to the camp. They forced out the box cart and then rushed to get their number.
In addition to the physical suffering that they had to endure in concentration camps. During the Holocaust, the Jewish people were subjected to dehumanization through various ways such as forced labor, starvation, and cruel
People would be stripped from their clothes and shoes and washed like dirty dogs. They would beat you if you did not do what they wanted you to do. Officers and medical workers at Auschwitz would take your items, even a small little gold crown from your teeth. The people who ran the concentration camp even would make you pick up the burnt bodies of your own kind, they did not even care if it was a loved one. Since Jews were treated in this dehumanizing manner, of course, it caused them to have died not just by being burnt or suffocated by gas, but by sickness and disease, and starvation.
The living conditions were bad. In the beginning of them getting there, they had no beds or furniture they slept on straw. These camps were also extremely packed full of people. The text states, Prisoners slept on straw-stuffed mattresses laid on the floor. (Source 3, History-life in the camp) Liberation after the Nazis fell.
They shaved their heads and gave them all the same uniform, so that each and every Jew looked the same to them. To the Nazis, the Jews were nothing but animals. So they made sure the let the Jews know how they felt about them with daily beatings and killings. They forced the Jews and other prisoners in the camps to do hard labor, which used up what little calories they were given in the form of moldy bread and a little soup. This left the Jews frail, skinny, and disease ridden.
Schindler’s List displays this by showing how the Jews were sent to forced labour camps such as the Plaszow. When they arrived to these labour and concentration camps, they were separated by gender as told “men to the left, women to the right”, this separated families causing more effective discomfort to the Jews. In the labour camps, many Jews were shot often resulting in death because they were not working to the satisfaction of the Nazis or SS officers who were in charge of that labour camp. If any Jews were seen as unhealthy they were sent to death camps. During this stage of the holocaust many Jews were
The Jews would be forced that they were going to take a shower, and then they would be forced into this room where they would then be gassed and killed. A lot also died from poor nutrition and hygiene (Doc 6). They were fed occasionally and were not able to clean themselves up and
The lack of basic hygiene was a very large issue around this time. The living conditions at the camps were disgusting, with piled up garbage and rotten
They were put into camps in the middle of nowhere. Their so-called “house” was poorly built, they had very thin walls, the house always leaked whenever it rained, they had to make their own furniture, the food wasn’t very good, and there was a fence keeping them in. Many people died trying to get out of the camps. Many innocent people were taken into these camps, a lot were even arrested.
Shortly before the outbreak of war, SS and police officials incarcerated Jews, Roma, and other victims of ethnic and racial hatred in these camps. To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps for Jews during the war years. The German authorities also established numerous forced-labor camps, both in the Greater German Reich and in German occupied territory.
Thousands of Jewish prisoners were killed per day in concentration camps. The way the Nazis succeeded in killing this much Jews was by creating gas chambers and crematoriums. First, in the novel night, Elie Wiesel described how he witnessed dozens of “children being thrown into the flames.” Wiesel was told when he arrived to Auschwitz that “Here, you must work. If you don’t you will go straight to the chimney.
Night Final Open Ended Question Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is a memoir about his life as he goes through the Holocaust. Eliezer goes through many situations that cause him, and other Jews, to be dehumanized by the Nazis. The three levels of dehumanization are physical, mental, and emotional. Eliezer was affected by all three. Never in his whole life did he imagine that this would happen to him or his family.
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
Since no doctors, lots of diseases got passed around throughout the camps. The life of Jews controlled by Nazi’s was no life to live. Nazi’s treated Jews with the most ruthless, and often quite refined, cruelty. The Jews would not get fed good and did not get many clothes. As they arrived at camp they got there clothes taken and then received the striped pajamas.