POW’s Jobs During WWII From the book, Night, it didn’t tell us much what the Jews worked on the concentration camps. Elie only told us two jobs which were his jobs. One job he worked was in a factory separating items. His other job was carrying stones from place to place. These were the only jobs mentioned in the book. I want to know what other jobs the prisoners had to work everyday on the concentration camps. There should have been harder jobs than the jobs Elie worked. I chose this topic particularly because it’s something I don’t know much about. Also I am interested on what the prisoners worked as. I want to learn what jobs Jews had to do everyday on the concentration camps. That’s why I am doing this topic, so we can learn what other …show more content…
On Sunday, November 29th at 10:39 am, I started the research about my topic. I wasn’t in the best mood, but I had to finish this research and find my answer. The first thing I did was go open up a web browser, Google, and type in, “What did Jewish prisoners work during WWII.” It took me to Wikipedia and there was a section on the page called, “Forced Workers.” It talked about how people were put into labour camps depending on different categories of inmates. The ones in the camps were called “undesirables” who were homeless, homosexual, criminals, political dissidents, communists, and Jews. Prisoners in the Nazi labour camps were worked to death. They had a small amount of ration. The prisoners who couldn’t work were killed and many died as a result of forced labour in the camps. Later on after the invasion of Poland, Jews over the age of 12 who were living in the General Government were forced to work under forced labour. Then all non-Germans who were in the General Government were subject to forced labour in 1942. After looking at this information, I scrolled down to find what the Jews and other prisoners worked on the camps. Then I found my answer. Some prisoners provided work in the German war industry. They repaired bombed railroads, bridges, or worked on farms. Most jobs weren’t on the camps, they would be outside of the camps. There was more information saying that later on more prisoners were working on the war
Hitler sent Jews to concentration camps for labor in which many people like Kitty Hart-Moxon were also there. He made them work and when he felt like they weren’t useful anymore, they would be sent to die in gas chambers while being told they were going to be “taking a shower”. Living conditions in concentration camps were horrible with many
There were 12 countries in WWII and they all spend ridiculous amounts of money for the war effort, as a result jobs that had to do with manufacturing things and others were shifted to producing war goods. Countries like Germany started hiring people people to work for the war effort and help with the manufacturing of goods. Soon they noticed a trend of poor Jewish families offering their work, that's when all the deportations began, quote “Strip!Fast!Los! Was all Elie could think as he was nearing the departure from his siblings.
The Jews were forced to do all types of things such as, burn bodies, clean, and so much more. Working was their way to survive the camp, but most people didn’t make it until the end, when the Americans saved the ones who were still alive.
They had terrible living conditions, some died from starvation, and others died from disease. The gardes splitted the Jews into five rows for counte off. When they had to leave the Ghettos eighty Jews were loaded into each of the cattle cars, on their way to the camps. When Elie and the others make it to the camps some of them have to go to the infirmary, from the little food they had on the cattle cars. There were around 20,000 camps but the main ones were Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Treblinka.
The gradual restriction of freedoms and systematic dehumanizing of the Jews is described. The formation of the ghettos where the Jews were forced to reside and then eventually how they were forced to board cattle cars and depart for the concentration camp. Completed Dec 20,
The Nazis forced everyone in the camp to work, to do things they wanted. The work they were doing was perilous, constantly working with little food. Elie had multiple jobs because of all the various Kommandos he was in at camp. Depending on the Kommando would determine the intensity of work someone had to do. Initially, Elie and his father had relatively simple work to accomplish.
The Nazi’s set up workshops, where the older jews would go and make products for the german war effort. Since they had more work, they were usually more tired then the children. They also had to face a chance of death, if they happened to mess up with something at the workshop. Many became smugglers, mostly the women. They would bring in food, illegally, to feed their children.
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
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.
These prisoner were of the enemy race. The Nazis imprisoned Jews while
Many of them lost their families when they were put in their camps because some of their family would go to different camps than other. People had to sell their businesses quickly or have someone take care of it so they could make some money before they had to leave. People had to give up their pets because they did not allow pets in the camps. They could only take what they could carry. “Families left behind homes, businesses, pets, land, and most of their belongings.”
POW camps often forced their captives into labor, having them build or serve officials. After the bombing at Hiroshima many of the POWs knew they were going to be saved from the camps. “I realized this is what had ended the war. It meant we didn’t have to go hungry any loner, or go without medical treatment (p.
The camps were “voluntary” as the government could not force someone to relocate into a camp, but the men who did not wish to leave the cities could be arrested for vagrancy (5). The men received food, shelter, and clothing in exchange for 44 hours of labor a week (6). They performed work considered to be “boondoggles” as they planted trees and cleared brush (3). In addition, they also developed infrastructure as the made roads and built public buildings (5). The men were paid 20 cents a day and came to be known as the Royal 20 Centers (3).
Another position of employment was being a trapper/door boy. They had to be there to open and close a heavy wooden gate when a coal car was coming through. It was a very lonely job snd they had to sit on a bench all day, occasionally opening a door for the coal cars. Another big industry of employment was glassblowing. They had to work in a 130 degree room with a salary of 65 cents per day.
Daily Life at Concentration Camps Starving, cold, unclothed, sick, and hard working people were all put in concentration camps and treated horribly. The Jewish workers worked hard all day everyday or else they would get killed. The way the Nazi’s treated the Jews was extremely bad, the Jews would not get food, clothes, beds, and other necessities. There were all types of camps that had all kinds of jobs, you were assigned a job and didn 't get to pick a job. The Jews had a very compact schedule, they were busy all day, never any time to waste.