Prisoners In Concentration Camps During The Holocaust

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.

There were more than 40,000 camps in the years of 1933 and 1945. The camps were used to hurt people, murder them, work for the Nazis, and many more terrible things. In September 1939 the Nazis opened a forced labor camp where many jews were starved, exposure,and being extremely tired. In a few camps they would do medical experiments on the prisoners. Sadly many people died from gas chambers where the prisoners had gas sprayed in there faces to the point of death.

The facilities at these camps like heat, washrooms, and toilets were all very scarce. When present, these facilities were often poorly managed and in very inhumane conditions. The prisoners at these camps were almost always of Jewish descent except for the majority of war-related prisoners and were kept in ordinary prison cells. Auschwitz was the name of a very well-known camp in a Nazi-controlled part of Poland during The Holocaust. In Auschwitz, they used various forms of torture including gas chambers, crematoriums, various beatings, and individual torture.

"Concentration camps, that's what you call, uh, a camp what actually is annihilation...they annihilate people, actually. " This quote by Abraham Lewent sums up the story of the Holocaust and what an egregious time it was. The genocide of over six million people during World War II was the Holocaust. It all started with a man named Adolf Hitler and his rise to power and the German people who were desperate to believe anything they were told.

The Holocaust was the wide scale murder and extermination of Jews during the Nazi Regime. The Holocaust was undoubtedly a world-changing reality of World War II. Approximately six million Jews died during the Holocaust. Jews were placed in concentration (extermination) camps and forced to work until their subsequent, often inevitable, death.

To begin, about 3 million Jew were killed during the Holocaust. The gas chambers didn't always kill the Jews. The soldiers tore families apart if parents held onto their children to protect them. They had to get undressed in front of each other at the concentration camps. They were dehumanized by how badly they were treated.

Concentration camps were created by Hitler over 20,000 camps were made. The Nazis though that the jews didn 't care and were too powerful and that’s why they lost WW1. Approximately 100,000 jews died during the death marches. The first mass gassing of Jews took place in the chelmno extermination camps 5,000 convicted Nazi war criminals were executed and 10,000

(Bachrach 19) Children would make toys in the ghettos to pass their time. They made dolls out of scraps of clothing, cards out of cigarette boxes, or even wooden toys they would carve from pieces of wood with sharp rocks. (Bachrach 16) There was no bathroom or beds provided in the ghettos. It was very cramped and there was little to no room to lay down in the bunker. Human waste littered all over the ground causing a disease to spread throughout the camp, killing hundreds of residents.

The Jews weren't able to use the shower unless they were told so which was very scarce. They also didn’t have clothes that fit, and they never were full. From the book night, Elie Weisel described his first day, “As we ran, they threw the clothes at us, pants, jackets, shirts…..” No one was able to have proper clothes that fit. This is a good example of how the Jews were stripped away from being human and were treated like animals.

The very first concentration camp was set up in Dachau, Germany in 1933. Concentration camps kept opening up and being used all the way through to the end of World War II in 1945. As so many camps opened their had to be someone to build them for the prisoners of war, and believe it or not it was the prisoners themselves who had to build their own soon to be torture and sleeping chambers. In the Holocaust up to 6 million Jewish citizens died in either concentration camps or on the street. In the concentration camps people were either killed by being shot, gassed with poisonous gasses, tortured, or by catching a deathly disease or virus but prier to this they had to live in poor, poor living conditions.

As people can see the daily lives of the prisoners were extremely strenuous. Prisoners of the concentration camps were traumatized. They were stripped of their freedom and were forced to work until they could no longer carry on. Thankfully this event has long since passed and the survivors have been liberated and allowed to live the remainder of their lives in peace without fear of something like this happening to them again. One specific experience the victims of the Holocaust went through were the Concentration camps that the Germans forcefully took them too.

The Jewish, the Russians, the Polish, and even the Gypsies were all put into concentration camps (Kornblum 927). The camps were all over

The conditions in the camps were awful, the housing was extremely overcrowded, everything in the camp it was dirty, which contributed to the already large amount of illnesses (Byers 41). Jews from every camp died from starvation regularly (Byers 41). People (mostly men) were forced to work or do labor for the Nazis, usually until they died or were killed (Lublin/Majdanek). The most used way for killing prisoners was the gas chambers. Millions of Jews died in gas chambers from gases like Zyklon B and carbon monoxide (Lublin/Majdanek).

Like many genocides the Holocaust was one of the worst recorded in history. The Holocaust happened during World War II when Hitler became the leader of Germany in 1933. The War was mostly present in Europe, East Asia or the Pacific Islands but the Holocaust, which was a genocide of Jews, took place in Europe. Nazi’s and SS officers would storm the houses of Jews and move them into ghettos eventually ending up in a concentration camp. Some would die on their way there but mostly all the deaths occured in the camps.

The Holocaust was the mass murder of Jews, Gypsies, and the mentally or physically disabled (Introduction). The word Holocaust means burning of animals as a human sacrifice (Steele 6). In the process of the Holocaust, more than 35 million people died (Strahinich 76). The Holocaust took place mostly in Europe and Poland, where the Jewish population was three million plus (Introduction). Prime locations for the camps were on good working railroads with ghettos nearby (Strahinich 39).