Belzec Belzec A camp was one of the smallest camps. Also one of the most deadly camp. Jews knew hat that name was. It took millions of live the Jews were like toys to the Nazis. They starved them, tortured them and even made them fight for meals. Belzec a camp by the border of Portland. The Jews came in like hundreds of dog getting a piece of steak. They came from all over the world they came from Portland mostly but they also came from Norway Greece France Belgium Holland was the most population of Jews. (Marshall 56) The camp was a labor camp for men at first in 1942 it turned in to a death camp. Killing by the hundreds in weeks. Jews burning and bared body. Only getting piece of bread a day some starved or shot for no reason or …show more content…
With only two SS officer 20 guards and 15 German Shepherds replacing 6 of them because of deased. (Marshall 49) the guards were the meanest of them they would set up fight with Jews and who ever won get a meal. The camp was one of the smallest it was only 1 mile long and wide treated like animal they were crammed and no room for bed so people had to sleep in the floor. A man name by Heinrich Himmler he help make the camp he built it but the Jews built it he just got the blue prints. They used 2 ton of barbwires 4 ton of concrete. It was expensive for a small camp it was 80,000.They had to get rid of the body they got a specialized oven for the body they can hold at least 100 body per oven and they had 2 oven. Belzec was a good camp well for the Nazis Eisner grupean was an inspector and said that it was one of the best camp. But when the one of the SS officer retired and a new ss officer came named Bibi Yar a name that gave people chills he was the meanest man there was he was a good friend of Hitler he told the Jews what to do they get hard labor or get kill or get gassed. He was so mean that he killed baby for practice Country they try to hold the Jewish population. In hungry they put a little war they killed many Nazi hundreds of Jews were killed and many
Thousands upon thousands of innocent Jews, men, women, and children tortured; over one million people brutally murdered; families ripped apart from the seams, all within Auschwitz, a 40 square kilometer sized concentration camp run by Nazi Germany. Auschwitz is one of the most notorious concentration camps during WWII, where Jews were tortured and killed. Auschwitz was the most extreme concentration camp during World War Two because innumerable amounts of inhumane acts were performed there, over one million people were inexorably massacred, and it was the largest concentration camp of over two thousand across Europe.
There are unexpected aspects of life in the camp depicted in “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlement” by Tadeusz Borowski. The prisoners were able to make very obvious improvements to their lived in the camp, without reaction by the SS officers; the market was even made with the support of the camp. The prisoners actually hoped for a transport of prisoners, so as to gain some supplies. The true nature of the camp is never forgotten, even in better moments at the camp.
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
The conditions were OK as a concentration camp, however as more prisoners came, it drastically worsened. There was “overcrowding, poor sanitary conditions, the lack of adequate food, water, and shelter.” Near “1945, the food was a watery soup with rotten vegetables.” (Bauer, Yehuda p.359) People were “dumped behind barbed wire without food or water and left to die.” (ushmm.org) It was so overcrowded that corpses were piled out in the open without being buried.
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.
...perly, so everything went wrong. From their poor services, food, water, and sanitation, people started to die because of diseases which mainly broke out with Typhus. After the situations became bad, they separated the camp by adding another camp a mile and a half away. Then when the situations went worse, they changed the second camp to be a temporary hospital and rehab camp. But regardless of their efforts Typhus still spread, killing five hundred people a day. When this information broke out to people, it was seen as a living nightmare. There was a massive amount of people that started to die and people started burning the dead people’s bodies. They had no other choice, but to burn them. From the amount of people dying, the British army had to replace troops for bulldozers to move the thousands of bodies. After this horror story, many Jews immigrated to Palestine.
The prisoners were ordered to do many horrific things in this camp. Plaszow was the most common forced labor camp for Jews located in Krakow
A camp focused on not only torture, but death. something so permanent, so final. thousands of prisoners thrown in this camp every day just to be killed (about 800,000). With no rhyme or reason, besides the thought of the Jews being completely worthless and not even deserving of living on this earth and breathing the air. The logic at this time is completely lost, they Jews were treated no better than dirt under the guards shoes.
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.
At first the concentration camps were advertised and the Jewish race could go there if they wanted. The advertisements that were displayed were merely illusions. They appeared to be great places, but in reality, they were terrible. The advertisements showed jobs and a lovely community. There were also showings of a bunch of recreational activities for families, children, and adults. The place was too good to be true.
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
The camp was first being ran by SS; Hauptsturmfűhrer Adolf Hass. But in 1944 Hass was replaced by SS; Hauptsturmfűhrer Josef Kramer. Kramer had past experience with concentration camp, he had been involved in concentration camps since 1934 and before Bergen Belsen Kramer was at Auschwitz-Birkenau. While he was in Bergen Belsen he was nicknamed; "beast" because of the way he would kill prisoner or let them starve. One guy who survived wrote “Kramer lost his calm. A strange gleam lurked in his small eyes, and he worked like a madman. I saw him throw himself at one unfortunate woman and with a single stroke of his truncheon shatter her skull.” In 1943 is when Bergen Belsen was officially a concentration camp. it was a camp mainly for Jews. The prisoners were sectioned off for their beliefs. This camp was not mainly forced labor but in 1944 the situation changed because other prisoners were transfored, there were around 7,300 prisoner tra...
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.
At the camp, the Jews were not treated like human. They were force to do thing that was unhuman and that dehumanized
...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