Table of contents Introduction 3 The need of sonderkommandos 4 Politics 4 gas chamber 5 The work of the sonderkommandos 8 Revolts within the camps 10 Survivors 12 Resources 16 Introduction When one thinks of concentration camps‚ the link to the gas chambers will be made without difficulties. However‚ do people really know how they worked and who where needed to let these killing machines function? The answer is no
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Nazi Extermination Camps Anti-Semitism reached to extreme levels beginning in 1939‚ when Polish Jews were regularly rounded up and shot by members of the SS. Though some of these SS men saw the arbitrary killing of Jews as a sport‚ many had to be lubricated with large quantities of alcohol before committing these atrocious acts. Mental trauma was not uncommon amongst those men who were ordered to murder Jews. The establishment of extermination camps therefore became the "Final Solution" to the
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factual. In the United States‚ critic David Denby led the protest against the film by panning the film as "unconvincing" and "self-congratulatory" and accusing Benigni of perpetrating a Holocaust denial (Denby 96). A cartoon of a despairing concentration camp prisoner holding an Oscar statuette accompanied Denby ’s New Yorker review. Art Spiegelman‚ the author of the Holocaust comic book series Maus‚ drew the cartoon and called the film a "banalization" of the Holocaust (Polese 1). Benigni had prepared
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goal‚ to be the ultimate ruler. While Germany was experiencing difficult times‚ Hitler took the opportunity to use Jews and other parties/groups as scapegoats and blame Germany’s issues on them; this turned the people against them‚ making the extermination significantly easier. Many deny the manifestation of the Holocaust. The revisionists‚ Holocaust deniers‚ believed the Holocaust was a hoax and was over exaggerated. Problematically‚ revisionists argue the occurrence of the Holocaust is false and
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in the line “I curse you Briar Rose….all the people in your village‚ and all the people who bear your name”. The allegory in Gemma’s version of Briar Rose refers back to the curse of the holocaust and is compared with the destruction in the extermination camps revealing the horror of the holocaust. This idea is reinforced by the alternating chapters used throughout the novel. The alternating chapters shift between Gemma and Becca’s stories. For example chapter one of the novel introduces Gemma as
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During the attempted extermination of the entire Jewish population‚ many Jewish prisoners were ordered to assist in the killing of their own people. Sonderkommandos were a major part of this eradication. A sonderkommando aided in the disposal of the corpses that were victims to the gas chambers. Through the vivid testimony by Filip Muller‚ “Eyewitness Auschwitz” allows the reader to fully understand the difficulties and graphic situations that occurred daily at Auschwitz. Filip Muller was born on
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1942‚ during WWII‚ the extermination camp at Sobibor was established. The camp was built by the village of Sobibor in Lublin‚ district of Poland.From April‚1942 to October‚1943 250 thousand people were assassinated‚ the majority were Jews. Sobibor was an extermination Camp‚ at one point it turned out to be divided into three sections.The camps erection began in 1942‚with Polish workers and Jewish slaves the camp began operating in March.Sobibor was a relatively small camp‚ which measured 400 meters
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elements of unexpected acts of kindness and favorable circumstances. Two such survival stories are in the films The Pianist and Europa Europa. The Pianist is a film about how Wladysaw Szpilman survived the German deportations of Jews to the extermination camps and how he lived in hiding outside the ghetto‚ in a predominantly German area. Europa Europa is a film about how Solomon Perel escaped the Holocaust by disguising himself as a non-Jew and as an Aryan German. All along this time period‚ he had
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movie very soon after. The Boy in Striped Pajamas is based on the horrors of a World War Two Nazi Extermination Camp. This movie is through the eyes of two 8 year old boys; one whose father is a Nazi camp commandant and the other is a Jewish inmate. Bruno‚ the son of the Nazi commandant and his family just recently moved from Berlin to the countryside; which happens to have a Nazi Extermination Camp right nearby. The adventurous Bruno finds an unguarded fence where he meets and befriends Shmuel‚
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The Treblinka camp was operated from June 1941 to July 1944. Treblinka was the final destination for a little over 2‚500 Jews in Bransk. The Jews were taken from Treblinka by train on November 8‚ 1942. Treblinka was established in 1941 as a forced labor camp for the Jews that were accused of committing crimes. Treblinka tried to minimize the chances of the Jewish rebellion or resistance. Sobibor was the second death camp. The Sobibor death camp was near the Sobibor village‚ which is located
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