While researching things about Josef Kramer I found out things that I didn't know before. Such as concentration camps and what it was like to live back then. Josef Kramer was the commandant of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp he was nicknamed The Beast of Belsen. Kramer was born on November 10th, 1906 and died on December 13th, 1945 by being hanged. He was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.
Josef Kramer was born and grew up in Munich as an only child in a middle class family. His parents were Theodore and Maria Kramer they brought Josef up as a strict Roman Catholic. His father was a public accountant who had been excused from WW1 duty. In 1915 his family moved from Munich to Augsburg where he attended school. Josef went to a Roman Catholic school which he dropped out at the age of 14. Then he
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When he was working there he was said to have little involvement in the camp activities. He was then promoted to officer rank and then in 1937 he married a school teacher Rosina, and had a son name Karl Heinz. In 1938 Josef was posted to the Auschwitz complex as a deputy to the commandant, Rudolf Hoss. His wife and son went with him. In 1940 he was then posted back to Dachu KZ, and again he was also responsible to the commandant.
In 1941 he was posted to the Natweiler KZ. He was then made commandant in July 1942 at the age of 36. At this time he was awarded a war service medal 2nd class. His final promotion came in 1942. Josef supervised the gassing of 80 inmates “In accordance with the orders from above” were his words afterwards he sent the bodies to the Strasbourg university for research. Then on may 10th he was posted to the Auschwitz camp II his position there was a larger commandant. He was tasked to prepare for the arrival of the expected Hungarian
David Vogel, born in 1891, lived with grief and loss before his very eyes before his death in a tragic occurrence. He spent his youth in Lvov and Vilna but settled in Vienna in 1912, although he was born in Stantanov, Russia. Later on, in the outbreak of World War One, Vogel was captured and imprisoned in Austria detention camps as a Russian enemy. He was released in 1916, and lived a solitary life thereafter. When World War Two uprised he was incarcerated in French detention camps. He was released from France in 1941, but captured but Nazis just three years later. Supposedly, he died in the Holocaust in 1944. David impacted society through awareness of the affects he had on the Holocaust with his poems, How Can I See You, Love, Here You Sit Beside Me, and I Saw My Father Drowning.
He was the commander for the time that Kaiserwald was open. (Kaiserwald concentration camp virtual library).
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Once Simon was safe, he began working for the War Crimes Section of the United States Army and was later reunited with his wife (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). The two were under the impression that their spouse was dead. After their reunification, they had their first child in 1946 (Holocaust Research Project). Wiesenthal opened a Jewish Documentation Center in Austria where he along with four other staff members worked to track Nazi war criminals (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).... ...
Elie Wiesel lost his childhood when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. Soon his village was transformed into one of hundreds of other ghettos. These worked as temporary prisons before the Jews were moved to their final destination; the death camps. The most well known
He worked as a columnist for the Cornell Daily Sun until joining the army in 1942. He was captured by the Germans in 1944 and forced to work in a factory, where he lived through the fire bombing of Dresden. This, and the suicide of his mother in 1944, were the two most influential events in his life. After the war he worked for the Chicago News Bureau and studied anthropology. He has written many novels and one short story collection.
Through Josef's homosexuality it demonstrates an important fact about the Holocaust which is rarely touched, the common misconception that only those of Jewish were targeted when in actuality several other minorities were targeted, such as homosexuals, Gypsies, and the disabled (mental and physical).
Around 6 million jews were massacred in an event called the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a horrible time of slaughter of innocent people. Not many survived to be able to live on telling their stories. Of those people to survive the Holocaust was Jack Mandelbaum.
Oskar Schindler, a German middle-classed officer who worked for the Nazi, saved the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. He
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...
Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg, Germany. His parents were Carl and Walburga. Shortly after Joseph's birth, his family became wealthy due to his father becoming the sole owner of a factory that manufactured farm equipment. The business prospered and his family became a power and influential family. While Mengele was a young boy, his parents were frequently absent, and he was raised in a very strong Roman Catholic home, filled with hard la...
It has been estimated that nearly half of the total number of concentration camp deaths between 1933 and 1945 occurred during the last year of the war” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in the world’s history. “The Holocaust is the most investigated crime in history, as has often been pointed out in response to deniers. Eichmann may be that crime’s most investigated criminal” (Sells, Michael A.). Adolf Eichmann was one of the Nazis.
Commandant Hoess blamed his responsibility and pledge to Hitler that it was not up too him to determine whether the extermination of Jews was necessary or not. (Hoess, 144) Hoess claims that after the mass exterminations began to occur in Auschwitz he was no longer happy and dissatisfied with himself for his participation. (Hoess, 156) He was initially able to escape capture by the allies, but British police arrested Hoess on 11 March 1946. Two days prior his poison phial had broken preventing him from committing suicide. (Hoess, 173) He was then turned over to Polish authorities where he was tried for the murder of millions in Poland; Rudolf Hoess was executed 2 April 1947. (The History of Auschwitz, 2005) Hoess served three and half years as Commandant of Auschwitz and nine years in SS Camp Service. (Hoess, 157)
Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. Leonard's father, Samuel immigrated to America in 1908 at the age of sixteen from the Russian province of Volhynia where he came from a long line of rabbis. (Gradenwitz 1987: 20)
Hoess attested to his continuous association with the administration of several concentrations camps since 1934, being appointed Commandant of Auschwitz on May 1, 1940 and remaining in that position until December 1, 1943. Hoess testifies that he was ordered to “establish extermination facilities at ...