Moving on to the hair room, the hair room was where men or women with long hair had to cut it off and their hair would be put in one big pile, that pile today looks like a pile of hay.Next was the shoe room, the shoe room was where the jews had to take off their shoes and set it into a pile, both hair and shoe room can be viewed today at the Aushwitz concentration camp. Labor camps were where sick people or disables were sent and were immediately killed.Many concentration camps had gas chambers where they would bring a line of jews into a…
During the Second World War, and unspeakable injustice occurred. Six million Jewish people were slaughtered solely based on their religion. Men, women, and children were plucked from their homes and taken under control of the Nazi 's. Their valuables were stolen. They were put to work in concentration camps where they were starved, beaten and tortured. Their identities were stolen, their names taken away, and identification tattoos were engraved in their bodies. Scientific experiments were preformed on these people with no anesthesia. Men and women alike were dragged to death pits where they were shot in the back of the head at point blank range, falling into mass graves while other were gassed in large chambers and tossed into the crematories.…
“Victims of the squads were forced to surrender all valuables and remove all clothing.”(www.ushmm.com) The soldiers would humiliate the Jews by marching them naked. Some victims were even raped. Most of the Jews were ordered to dig their own grave. After digging their hole they were shot and thrown into it.…
Women had their hair shaven off. They were then brutally pushed to the tube and into the gas chambers which were disguised as showers. The brutalized and disoriented Jews, often weak from hours or days spent in cattle trucks, had barely any time to evaluate their fate or react…
The Holocaust was a horrible time for Gypsies, Jews, the handicapped, and anyone who the Germans felt were subhuman. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazis, wanted to exterminate everyone who didn't fit the German Aryan race of having blonde hair and blue eyes. The plan was to send everyone who was strong enough to concentration and death camps. Of those, Auschwitz concentration camp was the deadliest and the harshest. The weak would be shot on the spot, babies would be killed and anyone over 50 would also be killed in the gas chambers. Not only were the prisoners at Auschwitz murdered and worked to death they were also experimented on. Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor who was most feared, during the time of the Holocaust.…
The Nazis killed most of them in gas chambers while pumping poisonous gas for the purpose of mass murder. Many of the tortured people were starved and shot or worked to death. This slaughtering and murdering of millions of Jews and others, this genocide, was called the Holocaust. As a result of the Holocaust, approximately 11 million people died in total, which included 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews which contained the Gypsies, homosexuals, artists and dissidents. Even though, the U.S and its allies, which included the Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Free French, were aware of the camps, they didn’t understand the extent of the horrors until towards the end of the war. The Nazis kept it a secret from them. When the Allies took over Germany, they found out about these terrible acts that the Nazi leaders committed. Moreover, the U.S and its allies weren’t quite sure how to handle the situation. As a result, the Allies created the Nuremberg Trials which punished the most important captured leaders of Nazi Germany who committed crimes against humanity. Crimes against humanity are considered the highest level of criminal offense which includes murder, extermination, enslavement and other inhumane acts against a group of…
<br>The Holocaust is the most horrifying crime against humanity of all times. "Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population.He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme." One of his main methods of "doing away" with these "undesirables" was through the use of concentration camps. "In January 1941, in a meeting with his top officials, the 'final solution' was decided". The Jewish population was to be eliminated. In this paper I will discuss concentration camps with a detailed description of the worst one prior to World War II, Buchenwald.…
Millions of Jewish civilians died in concentration camps due to the cruelty of the Nazi party (Rodriguez). “Jews were subject to beatings and harassment like the cutting of their beards” (Rodriguez). They were given meager rations of watery soup and bread, but it never put a stop to their starvation. According to Rodriguez, men often had no sleeping quarters, were not able to shower, and were almost never fed their tiny rations of food. Because of the lack of sanitation and food, diseases such as typhus spread throughout the camps. Furthermore, they were expected to work extremely physically demanding jobs despite their lack of nourishment and health. In fact, their mistreatment and work was specifically designed to weaken them until they died. Finally, the Jewish people were kept in a constant state of terror never knowing if they would live to see the next day…
In this essay I will be answering the following questions; What group of people were targeted by the Nazis for extermination? Why did they pick this particular ethnic group? What methods did they use in carrying out their goals? What were some of the significant events during this period of time from 1933 to 1945? What other groups did the Nazis persecute as well?…
It is difficult to talk about the Holocaust in Poland without speaking of this camp in some further detail. Many people refer to all Nazi camps as concentration camps, but in reality, there were several types of camps, such as: concentration camps, extermination camps, labor camps, prisoner of war camps etc. Auschwitz is actually a series of three separate camps, the first built as a detention center for political prisoners. The camp “evolved into a network of camps where Jewish people and other perceived enemies of the Nazi state were exterminated, often in gas chambers, or used as slave labor.” Upon arriving at the camp, the prisoners were examined by Nazi doctors. If a person was judged to be unfit for work, including children, elderly and the sick, they were taken directly to the showers and told they needed to be disinfected from lice, but in reality they were sent to be killed in the gas…
On September fifteenth, 1935 dictators began imposing the Nuremberg Laws that created it exhausting for Jews to participate in their traditional everyday lives. The laws patterned Jews of their citizenship, created it banned for Jews to marry non-Jews, removed Jews from colleges and prevented Jews from bound professions like serving within the military. once this happened, several Jews were shipped off to death aka concentration camps, killed, beaten, or forced to insect.…
Along with concentration camps there were also a few death or extermination camps. These types of camps were used to “exterminate jews” (Extermination Camps). Few people in these camps came out alive. They were tortured and worked more than the regular concentration camps. Death camps were much worse than concentration camps because people were sent there not to just be held prisoner but to be killed.…
The concentration camps were created in 1933-1945 by Hitler and the Nazis. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp. Hitler and the Nazis made Jews, and people they did not like, build the camps. It was a vicious time for Jews because they went into hiding, living in poor conditions. People got diseases because they had no food which is a reason why most of them died. The disease of what they died from is called typhus. It was hard…
One of the systems of persecution that was used to implement the Holocaust was the use of gas chambers and gas vans. The Nazis would capture innocent Jews, Gypsies, whatever...and stick them in gas chambers at the concentration camps, often telling them that the stalls were for showering. With the gas vans, the Nazis would tell their prisoners that they were taking them to the showers. If that did not get them in the van, the Nazis would just beat them with guns and whips and anything else to get them to enter. It was so packed, that when they opened the van doors to place them in the gigantic grave, the naked, dead bodies would instantly fall to the ground. They were packed like sardines. At the grave, they would have some of the fellow prisoners take the bodies and throw them into the grave. It was devastating for them to do that because they would often see some of their friends lying lifeless and beaten on the ground. I would hate to be in that position.…
After Hitler came into power in 1933 in February of that year the Reichstag fire had happened. It is believed that Hitler deliberately set this fire. This was where the congress of Germany would meet. This made the state declare a state of emergency. That meant that all laws were suspended and that no one had a say in what Hitler was doing. The fire was a way of Hitler getting the revenge he wanted. Later on boycotts, laws, and arrests left the Jews isolated from society because no one wanted to be near them. When the first concentration camp opened in March 1933, in Dachau no one actually knew what would actually happen to the Jews.…
