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.
During World War 2, thousands of Jews were deported to concentration camps. One of the most famous camps in Europe was Auschwitz concentration camp. From all of the people sent to this concentration camp only a small amount of people survived. These survivors all will be returning to Auschwitz to celebrate 70 years after liberation.
Auschwitz was a very brutal camp as soon as someone stepped off the train. Most people would not last more than an hour at this horrific camp. The largest killing camp is also known for the largest number 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 Museum).
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.
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.
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.
Edward Bond, a playwright who lived through WW2, says that, “Humanity has become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz” (BrainyQuote 1). This means that when humanity becomes a privilege to some and not a natural right to all, then things like Auschwitz and in turn the Holocaust happen. The Holocaust death camps were considered both mentally and physically inhumane; the total effect of them shows the true level of inhumanity they installed. The death camps were mentally inhumane to the prisoners especially during the first few days because most inmates had some to all of their family taken away and killed. The camps tore families apart and people watched as their loved ones were left to be killed.
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.
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.
Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz- Birkenau was located in Oswiecim, Poland. It was the largest and most deadly concentration camp . The camp was
...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
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).
One of the most famous camps known as “Auschwitz” was created by one of the most famous leaders known as Heinrich Schwarz. Auschwitz was the biggest camp made by the Nazi army. It consisted of 3 camps inside of it and forced all of their prisoners to do labor and would get tortured to do it. One of the camps were used as their main killing center where they would kill all of the prisoners who didn’t obey their orders. Auschwitz would be ran by many leaders who would all control the prisoners and what their jobs were for the day and would choose if certain prisoners were to die or not. Hitler may have been the leader and supported the harmful things happening to the prisoners inside the camps, but didn’t run the camps himself and didn’t choose to have so many people die. What things happened to the prisoners inside the concentration camps that made it such a horrible place to be in? When you first would have gotten to the concentration camps, you would get off the trucks and all the men and women would be separated, but the children would go with their mothers. After they would all have manual labor to do and each person would have to do it perfectly, if it was not completed perfectly they would have to get beat by the guards. The guards would have no mercy and would beat the men, women, and even the children. These actions had a huge impact on the lives of all