Holocaust Concentration Camp
Concentration Camps
Can you imagine being a Jew and living during the Holocaust? One day you are at your house doing your normal routine, and the next minute you are being loaded onto a cattle truck. You would be taken to the most horrible place imaginable. A concentration camp. A concentration camp was where people were kept without trial. They were kept in terrible conditions and had no rights. Concentration camps had forced labor, mistreatment, starvation, disease, and random executions. Concentration camps existed between the years 1933 and 1945.
There were three types of concentration camps during the Holocaust. There were transit camps, forced-labor camps, and extermination camps. A transit camp was where prisoners were put before they …show more content…
Dachau held about 4,800 prisoners during its first year. During the years 1933 and 1945, the number of prisoners increased to 188,000. At least 28,000 prisoners died between the years 1940 and 1945. Prisoners were used as forced laborers. They had to do many construction projects such as building roads, working in gravel pits, and draining marshes. The prisoners were also used for medical experiments. Some of these experiments were high-altitude experiments using a decompression chamber, malaria and tuberculosis experiments, hypothermia experiments, and experiments testing new medications. Hundreds of these prisoners died during the experiments or were disabled afterward.
Bergen-Belsen was another concentration camp. It served as a holding camp for Jewish prisoners. Bergen-Belsen was built to hold only 10,000 prisoners but by the end of the war it held 60,000 prisoners. Bergen-Belsen conditions were good as far as concentration camp conditions go. It didn’t force most of its prisoners into forced labor like most of the other camps. It also contained no gas chambers. This is also the camp where Anne Frank and her sister Margot were. However, they later died of typhus in March, …show more content…
There was no security zone around Majdanek. It had no natural protection around it such as trees or a river. It was completely open. About 360,000 prisoners died at Majdanek and 120,000 of them were Jews. The Majdanek camp covered 667 acres of land. Some work the prisoners had to do there was to build railway tracks or a road, carry stones or coal, take out manure, dig for potatoes, or repair sewers. One survivor of the Holocaust said “A favorite game the SS guards liked to play with the prisoners was called ‘boxing match’” (Pfeffer 2). Two Jews stood up, one being forced to hold the other by the collar, and an SS man gave him a knock-out. After the first blow, the victim was likely to fall, and this was prevented by the other Jew holding him up. After doing this for 15 minutes, the victim was completely shattered, covered in blood, teeth knocked out, nose broken, eyes hit, they released him and ordered a doctor to treat his wounds. That was their way of being
Can you imagine being a Jew and living during the Holocaust? One day you are at your house doing your normal routine, and the next minute you are being loaded onto a cattle truck. You would be taken to the most horrible place imaginable. A concentration camp. A concentration camp was where people were kept without trial. They were kept in terrible conditions and had no rights. Concentration camps had forced labor, mistreatment, starvation, disease, and random executions. Concentration camps existed between the years 1933 and 1945.
There were three types of concentration camps during the Holocaust. There were transit camps, forced-labor camps, and extermination camps. A transit camp was where prisoners were put before they …show more content…
Dachau held about 4,800 prisoners during its first year. During the years 1933 and 1945, the number of prisoners increased to 188,000. At least 28,000 prisoners died between the years 1940 and 1945. Prisoners were used as forced laborers. They had to do many construction projects such as building roads, working in gravel pits, and draining marshes. The prisoners were also used for medical experiments. Some of these experiments were high-altitude experiments using a decompression chamber, malaria and tuberculosis experiments, hypothermia experiments, and experiments testing new medications. Hundreds of these prisoners died during the experiments or were disabled afterward.
Bergen-Belsen was another concentration camp. It served as a holding camp for Jewish prisoners. Bergen-Belsen was built to hold only 10,000 prisoners but by the end of the war it held 60,000 prisoners. Bergen-Belsen conditions were good as far as concentration camp conditions go. It didn’t force most of its prisoners into forced labor like most of the other camps. It also contained no gas chambers. This is also the camp where Anne Frank and her sister Margot were. However, they later died of typhus in March, …show more content…
There was no security zone around Majdanek. It had no natural protection around it such as trees or a river. It was completely open. About 360,000 prisoners died at Majdanek and 120,000 of them were Jews. The Majdanek camp covered 667 acres of land. Some work the prisoners had to do there was to build railway tracks or a road, carry stones or coal, take out manure, dig for potatoes, or repair sewers. One survivor of the Holocaust said “A favorite game the SS guards liked to play with the prisoners was called ‘boxing match’” (Pfeffer 2). Two Jews stood up, one being forced to hold the other by the collar, and an SS man gave him a knock-out. After the first blow, the victim was likely to fall, and this was prevented by the other Jew holding him up. After doing this for 15 minutes, the victim was completely shattered, covered in blood, teeth knocked out, nose broken, eyes hit, they released him and ordered a doctor to treat his wounds. That was their way of being