Auschwitz Concentration Camp “Get of the train!”. Hounds barking loud and the sound of scared people, thousands of people. “Now!”. All sorts of officers yelling form every angle. “Stop!” an officer was yelling at a kid who was frantic and scared. He wasn't listening and took one step more, and then he was shot. You ask yourself where you are. “Hell” Another officer shouts who overheard your soft breath. Auschwitz was a very brutal camp as soon as someone would step off of the train. Most people would not last anymore than an hour at this horrific camp. The largest killing camp is also known for the largest amount of deaths. People getting killed left and right. The number of recorded deaths at Auschwitz was reported to be 1.1-1.3 million Jews (United States Holocaust Memorial
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
Many extremely cruel and torturous things took place inside Auschwitz. Children, visibly pregnant women, and the elderly were often murdered upon arrival to Auschwitz. The Nazis did this because women and children were unable to endure the harsh labor that the Nazis wanted to put the Jews through, so they would inevitably be killed anyways. This is very cruel, not just because the women, children, and elderly were brutally murdered, but because this tore apart families within the camp; people had to live with the fact that their loved ones had been killed by Nazis. If children survived the initial separation, medical experiments were often performed on them by Dr. Josef Mengele, who was the main doctor in the camp, such as being put in pressure chambers, castrated or sterilized, and being frozen to death. This shows that the Nazis clearly didn’t care about how they treated their hostages. This proves one of the ways that the Nazi officers were inhumane and that the camp was a place filled with torture and death.
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...
Kaiserwald, unlike Auschwitz, didn’t have gas chambers instead they forced the Jewish to work in German factories. Auschwitz had a huge death toll around 1.1 million Jewish deaths. Kaiserwald ranked lower with around 10 thousand Jewish deaths. (The Holocaust Chronicle). Kaiserwald had a total of 11,878 prisoners in the camp. These numbers are small compared to Auschwitz who had 150,000 prisoners at any given time. Kaiserwald was open for a year while Auschwitz was open for five.(History & Overview of Auschwitz).
The Holocaust will forever be known as one of the largest genocides ever recorded in history. 11 million perished, and 6 million of the departed were Jewish. The concentration camps where the prisoners were held were considered to be the closest one could get to a living hell. There is no surprise that the men, women, and children there were afraid. One is considered blessed to have a family member alongside oneself.
Imagine the worst torture possible. Now imagine the same thing only ten times worse; In Auschwitz that is exactly what it was like. During the time of the Holocaust thousands of Jewish people were sent to this very concentration camp which consisted of three camps put into one. Here they had one camp; Auschwitz I; the main camp, Auschwitz II; Birkenau, and last is Auschwitz III; Monowitz. Each camp was responsible for a different part but all were after the same thing; elimination of the Jewish race. In these camps they had cruel punishments, harsh housing, and they had Nazi guards watching them and killing them on a daily basis.
Many medical experiments went on during the holocaust, mostly in concentration camps. These subjects included Jews, Gypsies, twins, and political prisoners. The experiments included many of these people never survived many were killed for further examination. The Jewish people got the full wrath of the injections, inhumane surgeries, and other experimentations. Twins were also desirable in these experiments to show a controlled group. Gypsies and political prisoners were experimented with, because they were there for the Germans disposal. Thousands of people died in these horrible experiments. These experiments were performed to show how the Jewish race was inferior to the Aryan race.
The Nazis were separating people, (mostly Jews) those on the left were sent to Auschwitz to be gassed, while the people sent to the right were sent to a forced Labor Camp. While Jack went to the side going to a Labor Camp, his mother and brother were sent to Auschwitz to be gassed. “To the Nazis, he became prisoner 16013 and spent the next three years at seven concentration camps.”(npr.org) In the first camp, the prisoners worked in a granite quarry. Jack mentioned the camp having no beds and the food as soup made out of grass. Then came the last concentration camp, and then finally liberation. "We didn't know anything, only on the morning when we woke up and the Nazi flag wasn't flying and the guards weren't there." (npr.org) Once realizing they could leave, Jack and a friend grabbed an abandoned military wagon and started on their journey of
Epstein shows the process that the majority of Jews were being put through, such as the medical examinations, medical experimentations, gas chambers and crematoriums. Medical examinations were used to determine if the Jews were healthy enough to work. Dr. Mengele used the Jews as “lab rats” and performed many experiments such as a myriad of drug testing and different surgeries. The gas chamber was a room where Jews were poisoned to death with a preparation of prussic acid, called Cyclo...
During the holocaust approximately 11 million people died in the Nazi death camps. The horrible impact of the holocaust still impacts us today. The holocaust began January 30, 1933 and ended on May 8, 1945. The Nazi army had belief that they were superior. They were ruled and lead by Adolf Hitler, their biggest camp was Auschwitz which was located in Poland. There are many sources that talk about the holocaust. One source is the book Night by Elie Wiesel and it focused on his personal experience. Another source is a documentary called Auschwitz Death Camp by Oprah Winfrey, in which she interviews Wiesel about the Auschwitz and the structures. The last source is a poem that is on a third person view and it is called "Little Polish Boy" by Peter
Holocaust Facts The Holocaust has many reasons for it. Some peoples’ questions are never answered about the Holocaust, and some answers are. The Holocaust killed over 6 million Jews (Byers.p.10.) Over 1.5 million children (Byers, p. 10). They were all sent to concentration camps to do hard labor work.
Only 7,000 emaciated survivors of a Nazi extermination process that killed an estimated six million Jews were found at Auschwitz” (Rice, Earle). Most of these deaths occurred towards the end of the war; however, there were still a lot of lives that had been miraculously spared. “According to SS reports, there were more than 700,000 prisoners left in the camps in January 1945. 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.
That is the main reason why nobody dared make an escape. Some survivors simply just said that it was virtually impossible to escape the hell that awaits in the camp and the weather that will strike over the camp. Auschwitz has really taught me that the Nazis were as cruel as they sound like because of the evidence we have today,and not forget
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
Concentration camps were places where the Jews or enemies of Nazism were sent.. After having been separated and forced to live in ghettos, they were sent off, on long train journeys, without knowing their destination, nor for how long they would be in these trains. People were known to get hysterical, scream that they were going to die, or die inside these trains. The trains were composed of tiny wagons, and each wagon was overloaded with people. There was no place to breath, let alone sit down. They had been told that they were going to be "resettled" in another ghetto, but little did they know what Hitler meant by "resettleme...