Did you realize that over 1 million people died at the Auschwitz camp!Auschwitz was the biggest concentration camp.It was the only camp left after the end of World War ll. Concentration camps were designed to remove Jews from Europe. They were a difficult and harsh place to live.…
Oskar Schindler was a man who lived in Krakow, Poland throughout the period of the Holocaust and World War II. During the Holocaust, Oskar Schindler managed to help over one thousand Jewish people escape from a deadly persecution. Schindler accomplished something that was socially unacceptable at the time; he prevailed against a system that showed no weakness. Schindler manipulated hundreds of men and women during the Holocaust so that he may do the unthinkable, and saved those he should most certainly despise. Oskar Schindler was able to complete all that he did because of his personal background.…
This description might be overwhelming, but the truth is that this is a factual description of millions of people that suffered in concentration camps located all over Europe during World War II; although these concentration camps were like living hell, one concentration camp was more infamous than the others camps. For many people Auschwitz may be synonymous of death chamber, death factory, genocide, holocaust and many others horrifying symbols that this place has gained after World War II. The impact of Auschwitz is the horror that millions of people suffered in this place and the psychological impact over the world. Auschwitz plays a major role in the holocaust history due to the massive killing of Jewish, gypsies, homosexuals, war prisoners and more (Downing 26). Auschwitz began as an ordinary Polish town named Oswiecim which afterward was changed to Auschwitz; later this place became a concentration camp, a death camp, and a factory camp, run by bureaucrats, and SS guards; a camp with multiple identities and goals that impacted the world (Dwork and Jan van Pelt 11).…
The Holocaust was one of the most horrifying crimes against humanity. "Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma (Gypsies), and homosexuals amongst others were to be eliminated from the German population. One of his main methods of exterminating these "undesirables" was through the use of concentration and death camps. In January of 1941, Adolf Hitler and his top officials decided to make their "final solution" a reality. Their goal was to eliminate the Jews and the "impure" from the entire German population. Auschwitz was not only the largest concentration camp that carried out Hitler's "final solution," but it was also the most extensive. It was comprised of three separate camps that encompassed approximately 25 square miles. Although millions of people came to Auschwitz, it is doubted that more than 120,000-150,000 ever lived there at any one time. (Encyclopedia of the Holocaust)…
Nazi 's and their allies ran several different kinds of concentration camps which had different categories. There were collection camps where prisoners were kept before being transported, labor education camps, transit camps,…
Auschwitz was a complex that contained three main camps that were near Oswiecim, a Polish city. Laurence Rees, an author of a PBS film series of Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State says, “More people died on that one single spot than the British and the Americans lost militarily in the course of the entire war”.They were Auschwitz I, or known as Auschwitz-Birkenau , and Auschwitz II or known as Buna or Monowitz. “Commanders of the Auschwitz concentration camp complex were: SS…
Consider 11 million people standing all together in one combined group. Now imagine them in fear. Why are they in fear? They’re slowly watching their fellow Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, etc. being killed, ten or twenty or maybe even fifty at a time. Some are burned alive. Some are gassed until death finally kills their immune system. The others take on the cruelest punishment. They’re forced to work in concentration camps where they are split up from their family and children. Children who couldn’t work were forced to death, some mothers coming along with their children if they refused to cooperate with giving their kids up. We ask ourselves, what made these men so cruel to tear poor families away and to also kill those that they deemed didn’t fit in society? What made it their decision to decide who belonged and who didn’t?…
Conditions at the camp were unbearable and extremely unsanitary. In Auschwitz I (the main camp) the prisoners slept in brick- built barracks. Originally they slept on the floor but as the camp became more populated they installed 2 and 3-tier bunk beds. In Auschwitz II (the extermination camp) the prisoners lived in brick or wooden huts. The people had to get on all fours to enter the hut because it was so small. Also, they would cram tons of people into one hut. Disease spread like a wildfire through the camp, people would become sick with Typhus, Typhoid, Beriberi, and MANY other diseases.…
The six main death camps during the Holocaust were; Natzureiler in France, Ravensbruck in Germany, Sachsenhausen in Germany, Bergen Belsen in Germany, Dachu in Germany, and Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia. A concentration camp is not the same as an extermination camp, where the purpose is to murder massive amounts of Jews. There were only two purposes of concentration camps: to demoralize and dehumanize. It’s where they punish them routinely on a daily basis, and put the dead in front of them to show how worthless they were.…
In the early 1930s, the residents of the picturesque city of Dachau, Germany, were completely unaware of the horrific events about to unfold that would overshadow their city still today. The citizens of Dachau were oblivious that their city was going to become the origin of concentration camps and of the Holocaust, the mass murder committed by the Nazi s in World War II. Dachau Concentration Camp, which would soon be placed on the edge of their community, would serve as a model for all Nazi extermination camps. This perfect prototype of a Nazi killing machine has come to represent the start of the horror-filled Holocaust and the Nazi's determination to achieve a perfect society during World War II.…
Auschwitz was a concentration camp established in 1940 by the Nazis. The Nazis sent the Jews and other "undesirable" people here to be used as slaves or to be killed.…
The great tragedy of what we know as World War two brought great danger to lots of people, but to not forget of what people themselves feared most, concentration camps. To be more specific in this case, the Auschwitz camps. In its time, it was the most effective camp of the Nazi regime. In this place, it consisted of three camps, each with their very own deadly purposes. The reasons this camp over all was the most effective was, history of its building, the day of a prisoner in the camps as well as ways inmates were killed off, and the main man in charge of the camp.…
Auschwitz was the most notorious and violent Nazi death camp racking up a death count of 1.1 million people. Auschwitz was visited by Joseph Mengele “The Angel Of Death” Auschwitz was the most efficient killing camp. The nazis took pride in Auschwitz because of the harsh conditions.…
Buchenwald Concentration Camp The Buchenwald Concentration Camp was a concentration camp that the Germans used for practically labor of the prisoners until they died or were killed by the SS. Hitler who was the Nazi leader wanted all the people that weren’t the Aryan race to die because they were not perfect. “The Buchenwald camp was located in Weimar Germany and was established in 1937. The main camp was constructed in a wooded area in the northern slopes of Ettersburg.…
Auschwitz was a concentration camp in Poland enforced by the Nazi Germany regime. There were three camps in one: Auschwitz I was built in 1940, Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau) in October 1941, and Auschwitz III (Auschwitz-Monowitz) in October 1942. Auschwitz was the largest extermination camp at the time and became known as the “final solution”. An estimate of 1.1 and 1.5 million people died at the camp, ninety percent of that number were Jews, and the second largest amount of people killed were the Poles. About 83,000 Poles were killed or died during their time at Auschwitz. Auschwitz was chosen to be the “final solution” location for Jews because it was located on a junction of 44 parallel railroad tracks, all of which were used to transport…