Auschwitz Concentration Camp Auschwitz was one of the worst concentration camps. Jews were exterminated by gas chambers or labor. Over 2 million people by some accounts, lost their lives in auschwitz. Most of them died by being tortured, starvation, disease, shooting, or burning. Babies born at the camp were killed right away. Millions of people died by the result of forced labor and extermination. Those who didn’t die of gas chambers they died from overwork. The campused hydrogen cyanide in the form of Zyklon B in the gas chambers. On September 1941, they first did the gas chambers in Auschwitz. They would take them to the shower room where they thought they’d they shower then they’ll turn the gas chamber on. September 1941, 600 soviet prisoners of war and 2500 ill prisoners were first exposed to the gas. Over 2 million people died in the Auschwitz …show more content…
Another reason they died was of disease, shooting, burning, and being tortured. Many died of starvation because they wouldn’t get fed regularly. Hundred of people also died of a lot of diseases such as infections too. People would get shot or tortured if they weren’t working. They would also get burned when they died or when they killed them. Babies born at the camp would not survive. They would kill any babies that were born right after birth. They would get rid of them because they wouldn’t help them in any way. They’d also kill the elderly because they were too old to do any work. A lot of kids and babies were also killed by a doctor at the camp, Josef Mengele. Josef Mengele was nicknamed Angel of Death for the harsh experiments he’d conduct. The Concentration Camp Auschwitz was just an awful place. A lot of people died from extermination. They’d work for a lot of hours. Some starved to death. Many also died of disease. Shooting, or torture. Out of all the World War 2 concentration camps, Auschwitz was the worst Concentration
The living conditions in the camp were rough. The prisoners were living in an overcrowded pit where they were starved. Many people in the camp contracted diseases like typhus and scarlet fever. Commonly, the prisoners were beaten or mistreated by
Life in Auschwitz was definitely not what many people think it was. Life was hard, housing was rough, the guards were mean and brutal and the different things that could happen to you were terrifying. One day in there would have killed most people and they lived like that for years. Every day was a constant battle for their lives and they never got a break. So many people died from getting sick or from the things the guards would do and no one could save them. The food was bad and they had to hurt each other to get more food so that they wouldn’t starve. They were forced to turn against each other to survive when they never should have had to. Life was never the same for those who went to Auschwitz and survived. As for those who didn’t survive; they never saw a better day.
Japanese Internment Camps Ten weeks after the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) singed an Executive Order of 9066 that authorized the removal of any people from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable”(FDR). The west coast was home of majority of Japanese Americans was considered as military areas. More than 100,000 Japanese Americans was sent and were relocated to the internment camps that were built by the United States. Of the Japanese that were interned, 62 percent were Nisei (American born, second generation) or Sansei (third-generation Japanese) the rest of them were Issai Japanese immigrants. Americans of Japanese ancestry were far the most widely affected.
How do you judge the atrocities committed during a war? In World War II, there were numerous atrocities committed by all sides, especially in the concentration and prisoner of war camps. Europeans were most noted for the concentration camps and the genocide committed by the Nazi party in these camps. Less known is how Allied prisoners were also sent to those camps. The Japanese also had camps for prisoners of war. Which countries’ camps were worse? While both camps were horrible places for soldiers, the Japanese prisoner of war camps were far worse.
The camp what actually used as like a prison before the 40’s (Carter, Joe). Because of its large size, it looked to be the perfect place to transform into a concentration camp. If the Nazis had not been able to make the area into what they wanted to, thousands upon thousands of lives would be saved. Taking that step off of the train had to be the hardest thing someone could do but there would be worst. People would be starving to death, or maybe they would catch a disease, or die like some who would just get shot by an SS officer just because they thought they should kill them or they just wanted to. Doctors could do what they wanted with anybody they wanted. Dr. Mengele was one of the most famous doctors that was at Auschwitz and during the Holocaust itself. He was able to pick the people he wanted when he wanted them. He did experiments on diseases and other tests (Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine). He liked to do experiments on twins because he could easily see what changes it does to the one that he would test it compares to the healthy one. Such things like this add up into making Auschwitz how bad it
Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz is a vivid and eloquent memoir of a Holocaust survivor from the largest concentration camp under German control in World War II. The original title in Italian is Se questo e un uomo, which translate to If This is A Man, alluding to the theme of humanity. The overall tone is calm and observational; rather than to pursue the reader, it is “to furnish documentation for a quiet study if certain aspects of the human mind” (Levi 10). The memoir is a testimony of Levi and the other prisoners’ survival at the Nazis’ systematic destruction attempts at the prisoners’ humanity. It was a personal struggle for prisoners, for individual survival, and struggle to maintain their humanity.
Living conditions in these camps were absolutely horrible. The amount of people being kept in one space, amongst being unsanitary, was harsh on the body.
Japanese American Internment Camps History Injustice is the unfair treatment or a situation in which the rights of a person or a group of a people are ignored. The internment of the Japanese American in the United States affected hundreds and thousands of lives for generations. It still remains hidden in history. As, I researched every information for this essay, what I found is, this story is ignored by people, it made me clear that the Japanese were so brave to face all the problems. All the Japanese Americans were treated badly because Americans turned their anger on Japanese Americans for a crime that was committed by the Japanese.
Though the sands of time are ever shifting, there remain some events in human history that should never be forgotten. One such event is the Holocaust, and one of the most infamous objects to come out of the Holocaust was the death camp known as Auschwitz. Auschwitz open in 1940 and would become the largest concentration camp under the Third Reich. During World War II, more than 1 million people would lose their lives in that camp. The first Commandant of this horrible killing center would be Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss.
The holocaust was a horrific period of time where unbelievable criminal acts were carried out against the Jews, Gypsies, and other racial gatherings. These defenseless individuals were sent from unsanitary ghettos to death camps, one being Auschwitz. The Auschwitz death camp comprised of three camps, all in which are placed in Poland. Numerous forms of extermination came about overtime to speed up the killing process. Life at the death camps was cut short for those who weren’t fit to work; such as the elderly, women, the mentally disabled, and young children. The others were put work while being starved to death. Experiments were held on dwarfs, twins, and other misfits were carried out by Josef Mengele. These inhuman acts against the Jews were all held in secret from society by the Nazis until liberation day.
The mental inhumanity was so bad that most prisoners thought of suicide and some even committed it. Along with this was the pain and torture the prisoners felt from the physical inhumanity which resulted in deaths of over 50% of the inmates who stayed there. The total effect of both of the camps is shown throughout the inhumanity brought about there. The fact that inhumanity was able to cause the deaths of just about 6,000,000 people shows how easy it is for it to hurt other humans.
...throughout Europe as they did in Auschwitz and Majdanek. These horror stories are only a few out of the hundreds of camps that the Nazis built during World War Two. The Holocaust was a devastating event for the Jewish population as well as many other minorities in Europe. The Holocaust was the largest genocide that has ever occurred. Horrific things went on in Auschwitz and Majdenek that wiped out approximately 1,378,000 people combined. This death toll is extremely high compared to smaller camps. These camps were some of the largest concentration/death camps that existed during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a tragic time where millions of people considered undesirable to the Nazis were detained, forced to work in the harshest of conditions, starved to death, or brutally murdered.“The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.” –Stephen Ambrose
Once they arrived they were not treated with dignity. At the camp the prisoners were stripped naked into a stripped uniform which was too thin for the cold, shaved the prisoners heads, tattooed a number on his or her arm; which represented their new identity, and was given wooden shoes that would often get stuck in the mud. The prisoners were woken up by a siren, imagine hundreds of people running out in time for selection. Selection is time when the Nazi decided who were ready to be killed. For breakfast they were given 10 ounces of bread with a small piece of salami or one ounce of margarine, tasteless coffee, with no sugar.They worked for about 11 or 12 hours daily. For lunch they were served a soup with a quart of water with a few carrots and rutabagas. The final meal was bread with rotten salami or margarine and jam. The camps had no heat or running water and only a few toilets that they could only use for 10 seconds. One must ask permission to use the toilet and if the Nazi guard did not let you use the toilet then you needed to use your food/ water bowl. When it was time to go to sleep the prisoners lay 10 in one bed and each person had to lay sideways in oder to fit. There were many different insects that could caused diseases such as bed bugs and lice. They also hd to sleep with bowl or cup to prevent them from being stolen by other prisoners. Many times a prisoner woke up to find someone in their bed dead. Each person got a bowl
During World War II, Nazi Concentration Camps were responsible for millions of deaths in a span of twelve years. Concentration Camps were places where people were kept as prisoners and forced to do heavy labor. Many people died from the heavy labor. When Adolf Hitler became the chancellor in 1933, the first concentration camps were built. The prisons served a big purpose during the Holocaust, they controlled many people (specifically Jews) and they killed them. The Holocaust was a mass murder of six million Jews and some other groups. There were a lot of concentration camps, with several major camps called Auschwitz, Belzec, and Chelmno. These camps lasted from Hitler’s appointment as the chancellor (1933) to the end of World War II (1945).
How badly were the people treated inside the concentration camps? Concentration camps were a very popular method for torture during the Holocaust. The camps had a very large impact on the Jewish community during the 1930s-1940s. During the Holocaust time, about 6 million Jews had died. During World War II, there were many camps known as concentration camps, which were made by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. The camps were designed for a cruel environment for the people that the Nazi party thought was unacceptable in their society, for example, Jews, disabled people, and mentally challenged people would be prisoners in these camps. Concentration Camps were really a horrid place for lots of people, but the Nazis saw