In 1945 jews and many others types of people were taken from their homes, apartments, and other places and were taken to concentration camps. concentration camps where they kept them to kill, torture, and just to make them feel horrible and even worse. Auschwitz was one of the most well known camp it was more of a death camp in was first opened in April of 1940. It was more that 3.5 miles long so it was pretty big.
Did you know that more than 6 million jews were killed in the holocaust yes I am amazed as well by that. 1 of 6 people that were killed in the holocaust were jewish. There were more than 7.2 million people killed in the holocaust. Some people didn 't even make it to Auschwitz they died on the train or in the trucks they were brought
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It was more of a death camp. If you were sick, or injured you were killed. It was also there for torture it was a really a bad place. Some people say that when you go to visit they still have a gas chamber that you can go in they say that you can feel the gases.
Auschwitz was a pretty big concentration camp it was bigger than 2.5 miles. It held 8 gas chambers. 46 ovens for burning 4,400 corpses per day. it was able to hold 3 million jews. It was 835 square feet big. Auschwitz was the biggest concentration camp that was built.
At Auschwitz they would get to eat would be a watery soup at lunch if they were lucky they would find a piece of turnip or a potato peel. Then in the evening they would get a piece of black bread weighing at 300 grams. Food also was in small amounts so they really get as much food then they were supposed to. Also they get as many calories as they were to get for their daily amount. So when they would eat they wouldn 't get the would still be hungry.
So that is my essay about auschwitz concentration camp. So that 's what i know about auschwitz. It was awful, bad, terrible place definitely not a place for kids. I would like to visit someday though. I heard they turned it into a museum and its pretty good one
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
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They were then herded like animals into cattle cars, eighty persons in one cattle car and they were taken away. They were in these cattle cars for twenty four hours; they were not given any food or anytime to get out. They were living in their own feces. Soon they arrived at Auschwitz,
The Truth About Many Jews Ellie Wiesel once said, “Without Passion, without haste.” The people in this true story were all treated like they were so much less than everyone else in the world. None of them had names that they went by anymore they just went by being called stupid Jews by the people who ran the camps. The things that had happened to these people were so unbelieveable. Millions of Jews were forced to cut their hair and were compared to dogs, or even sometimes called dogs.
Jackson Cipares Mrs. Barnes English 10 10 March 2023 Auschwitz What is Auschwitz? Auschwitz was a killing center for the jews. They used multiple ways of killing such as shooting, hanging, burning, etc. Life in Auschwitz was extremely rough on the Jews.
Only those who expirenced Auschwitz know. We can all agree with that. But can we even understand what
The life for Jews was harshly changed due to the Holocaust, but exactly made it so bad? The first and most important thing in life is food and water. The Nazis gave out ration cards which restricted the food that the Jewish families were allowed per day. According to document number four,
My father swallowed my ration.”. In the camps prisoners were only given one meal a day, to last them all day. For the work the Jews had to endure, one meal a day of no good food, was not healthy for them at all. Thats why when the camps were liberated By Allied forces, none of the Jews wanted to get revange on the Nazi Regime. The Prisoners only wanted food, The text states, “ Our first act as Free Men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions.
Concentration camps is where u went for labor work and death. The worst camp was Auschwitz. Surviving Auschwitz was just by luck. However, several
Lucky prisoners would find food lying around the camps or they would have people in their workplaces sneak them food. At night, prisoners would be given bread and a small piece of meat or cheese. The bread they were given was supposed to last them all night until the morning, so people would try to hide them in their beds, while they were asleep. The small rations were just meant to keep the prisoners alive so they weren’t completely starving. Many thousands of prisoners died from starvation or the illnesses caused by the lack of nutrition.
Auschwitz was the largest Nazi run Death camp. This camp was no ordinary Concentration camp; it could have changed the fate of the war. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp and at its highest occupancy rate was at one point holding up to 1.1 million prisoners. Auschwitz was different from all the other concentration camps not only because of its huge size but also because, it dealt with its prisoners.
Research Question: Compare how the Bergen-Belsen camp stands out related to others The Bergen-Belsen camp is a camp for prisoners from French and Belgium, and the camp was cleaned up real nice and they were not forced to do anything. This camp did not make anyone do anything like cleaning, cooking, or anything like that. The camp was very cleaned up and nice, it was a helpful camp to the prisoners.
Elie Wiesel Wiesel had to overcome many adversities such as death, cruelty, and starvation. These adversities made Elie Wiesel become the man he is today; he is truly a humanitarian. Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania, on September 30th, 1928. He was 15 when he and his family where sent to a camp by the Nazi’s, seperating him and his father from his mother and sisters. His mother and younger sister were murdered, his two older sisters survived; as did he, and his father died shortly after the both of them were sent to Buchenwald.
The likely fate of many people was death because the conditions of the camp was very poor with a lack of basic human necessities. While in the concentration
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.