Social Injustice During The Holocaust

Imagine you’re having a fun time with your family doing something, and then some people grab you and separate your entire family. Now you have to work at a camp with a ton of strangers if you don’t want to get killed. Those people that took you were Nazis. The camp that they took you to was a concentration camp which reeks with the stench of illnesses, diseases, and death. That’s what the Holocaust victims had to live through. This essay will be about the social injustices of the concentration camps during the Holocaust.
To begin with, there was Auschwitz which was an infamous concentration camp. The Nazis imported about 1.3 million people into this forced labor camp between the years 1940 and 1945. (“Auschwitz”, 2016) Out of those 1.3 million people, around 1 million died. (“Auschwitz”, 2016) Also, Auschwitz was made up of 3 camp divisions, and the first camp division had doctors that would perform tests on the prisoners. (“Auschwitz”, 2016) As for those tests, they were painful and inhumane. (“Auschwitz”, 2016) One day on October 7th, 1944 some prisoners tried to revolt and get out of Auschwitz, but that didn’t work. (“Auschwitz”, 2016)
Like Auschwitz, Buchenwald mainly used the prisoners for forced labor. (“Buchenwald”, 2016) If the prisoners didn’t work for some reason, the Nazis would kill them. (“Buchenwald”, 2016) However, unlike Auschwitz, the highest population Buchenwald had was around 112,000 people. (“Buchenwald”, 2016) As for doing tests and experiments on prisoners, Buchenwald did this, too. This is because on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website, they wrote, “Beginning in 1941, a number of physicians and scientists carried out a varied program of medical experimentation on prisoners at Buchenwald in special barracks in the northern part of the main camp.” In conclusion, Buchenwald was a brutal concentration camp, just like all the other