“Neutrality helps the oppressor never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”-Elie Wiesel. During World War II when groups of people were being targeted nobody would stand up for them. These people that were targeted were taken to concentration camps. There were many different types of concentration camps. Also, they were organized by Nazi’s and other workers. To add, the conditions of these camps were dreadful. Indeed, Concentration camps will always be remembered for the awful things that were done to people during World War II. In the 1940’s many different types of concentration camps were set up. First of all, Forced labor camps were set up. In this camp “Prisoners were forced to …show more content…
First, there were many types of different workers. In the camps there were security, police, and commander of the detention facilities. Also, there were male and female guards and wardens that were often criminals from the German prison. There were camp hospitals that were run by a doctor with several medical assistances. Secondly, they had a certain way of dehumanizing and separating people. When people had arrived at the camps they would be dehumanized so they would have their head shaved and had their clothes taken away and given a uniform. They would also take away any remnants of human dignity or personal identity. In some camps they were tattooed with a registration number. In camps they separated people. People that were over the age of 14 were “fit for work” and were sent to one side of the loading ramp. Children and women and elderly were condemned to death in the gas chambers. In some camps people were tagged with a different color triangles that told why these people were put in the camp. Green meant they were a criminal, red meant they were a political prisoner, pink meant they were a homosexual, purple meant they were Jehovah Witness, black meant they were an asocial. Lastly, they had a special daily routine they had to follow everyday.Waking up early, the prisoners would start their day., next they would call 2,000 prisoners at a time and they would have to share the toilet facilities. After …show more content…
First, it was very crowded in the camps. Some people were not able to stay inside so they had to stay outside in tents that had little protection to rain, wind and snow. Some people had to sleep on the floor because there weren't enough beds. Secondly, people in the camps did not have appropriate clothing for the kind of weather. In some camps there were no windows and no heat, so people were freezing in the winter and hot in the summer. Prisoners did not have appropriate clothing to wear during the winter because they barely any clothes and if they did have clothes they were very thin, they also had no decent shoes to wear. Next, People were fed really unpleasant food. The people in the camps were fed half of what a person needs to survive. They were fed an unbalanced diet with no fruit and vegetables and this would lead to starvation in 6 months.They had the same thing to eat everyday. Finally, the hygiene of the camps were very poor. The camps were very dirty and there were few bathrooms. The toilets didn't flush and everyone had to share them. They also did not not allowed to take showers unless they were told to. In conclusion, The conditions of a concentration camp are
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.
Being confined in a concentration camp was beyond unpleasant. Mortality encumbered the prisons effortlessly. Every day was a struggle for food, survival, and sanity. Fear of being led into the gas chambers or lined up for shooting was a constant. Hard labor and inadequate amounts of rest and nutrition took a toll on prisoners. They also endured beatings from members of the SS, or they were forced to watch the killings of others. “I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time” (Night Quotes). Small, infrequent, rations of a broth like soup left bodies to perish which in return left no energy for labor. If one wasn’t killed by starvation or exhaustion they were murdered by fellow detainees. It was a survival of the fittest between the Jews. Death seemed to be inevitable, for there were emaciated corpses lying around and the smell...
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
Then those who were too young or too old to work were sent to the showers. Once the showers were tightly packed, the Nazi’s would turn on the water and drop in canisters of chemicals that would react with the water and release a deadly gas. Within minutes, everyone in the shower would be dead. The bodies would be hauled out and burned. Those who were not selected to die didn’t fair much better.
Dehumanization was a big part of these camps. The Nazis would kick innocent Jewish families and send them to concentration or death camps. The main way they dehumanized these Jewish people is when they take all their possessions. In Night they go around taking all there gold and silver, make them leave their small bags of clothing on the train, and finally give them crappy clothing. All this reduces their emotions; they go from owing all these possessions to not having a cent to their name. If I was in that situation I would just be in shock with such a huge change in such a short amount of time. The next way they dehumanized the Jewish people were they stopped using names and gave them all numbers. For example in Night Eliezer’s number was A-7713. Not only were all their possessions taken, but also their names. Your name can be something that separates you from another person. Now they are being kept by their number, almost as if that’s all they are, a number. If I was in their place I would question my importance, why am I here, am I just a number waiting to be replaced? The third way they were dehumanized was that on their “death march” they were forced to run nonstop all day with no food or water. If you stopped or slowed down, you were killed with no regards for your life. The prisoners were treated like cattle. They were being yelled at to run, run faster and such. They were not treated as equal humans. If the officers were tired, they got replaced. Dehumanization affected all the victims of the Holocaust in some sort of way from them losing all their possessions, their name, or being treated unfairly/ like animals.
The second form of punishment was forced labor. Forced labor was almost exactly like slavery; slavery of the Jewish race. There was a minimum working day of eleven hours in all of the concentration camps they were forced to work for free at many different companies that manufactured weapons and other things for the war against their own people...
One of the biggest problems was sanitation. Clean water for drinking and bathing was rare and illness from poor hygiene or contaminated water was very common. Most of the camps were in tight groups and contagious diseases such as chickenpox, colds or the flu would spread over camp within
How would you feel if you were forced out of your home to go to a camp where you shall be incarcerated for an unknown amount of time in an unknown location. You have no idea what will happen to you and your family. Why were you forced into the camps? Because of your ethnicity or beliefs. Japanese internment camps and Holocaust concentration camps both left their hateful marks in the fabric of history. During World War II, the Holocaust concentration camps were located around Central or Eastern Europe while the Japanese internment camps were located in the Western United States. Both types of camps have interesting similarities. However, one must realize that despite this similarities, these camps were very different in many ways. Yet, one thing is certain. We must learn more about this dark time in history in order to prevent such acts of hatred and paranoia from ever happening again.
In 1942 Roosevelt signed the Executive order 9066 which forced all Japanese-Americans to evacuate the West Coast. They were forced out no matter their loyalty or their citizenship. These Japanese-Americans were sent to Internment camps which were located in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. There were ten camps all-together and 120,000 people filled them (2009). The immigrants were deprived of their traditional respect when their children who were American-born were indorsed authority positions within the camps. In 1945 Japanese-American citizens with undisrupted loyalty were allowed to return to the West Coast, but not until 1946 was the last camp closed.
Jewish people weren’t the only ones sent to concentration camps. People such as people with disabilities, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Communists, and Socialists (Byers.p.12). Everyone that was sent to concentration camps was sent via train cars (www.historychannel.com). They had no food, water, or restrooms for up to 18 days. Many people died from the lack of food and water (Byers, p.15).
“A typical concentration camp consisted of barracks that were secured from escape by barbed wire, watchtowers and guards. The inmates usually lived in overcrowded barracks and slept in bunk “beds”. In the forced labour camps, for
Living conditions for Nazi prisoners were over crowded. They had to sleep in unsanitary wooden and brick bunks with several others. Prisoners were given a curtain amount of time to use the facilities with no privacy. With little water they had to clean themselves the inmates lived in constant filth. The Nazi’s didn’t care how bad the weather was, the prisoners had to wait long hours during rolls call. Even the dead had to present during roll call. After roll call prisoners were marched to where they would be working at for the day. Some worked in factories, while others worked outside. Hours later they were marched to camp for another roll call.
After being extracted from society, these people were placed in work or concentration camps. The work camps were built to be death camps in which people were forced into extreme work environments and long hours that would result in death. People who were sent to concentration camps were also placed into environments with harsh setting and would be eventually sent to mass shootings or gas chambers.
At the camp, the Jews were not treated like human. They were force to do thing that was unhuman and that dehumanized
World War II was a time of deliberate hate among groups of innocent people who were used as scapegoats. Japanese-Americans were persecuted due to the fact that they looked like citizens of Japan, who had attacked the United States on December 7th, 1941 at the naval base, Pearl Harbor. This hatred toward the group was due to newspapers creating a scare for the American people, as well as the government restricting the rights of Japanese-Americans. The Japanese-Americans were mistreated during World War II for no other reason than being different. These men, women, and children were loathed by the American public for looking like the people of the Japanese army that had attacked the United States. These people were only hated by association, even though many had come to the United States to create a better life for their family.