Concentration Camps During The Holocaust

Once Hitler came to power, he promptly put harsh rules on Jewish people. In the November of 1938, Kristallnacht, also known as the night of broken glass, came to pass. Jewish businesses were ransacked, synagogues were burnt down and many Jewish people were attacked. In 1939, Adolf Hitler invaded Poland, which made Britain and France declare war on the Germans. Jews got sent to places called ghettos. Ghettos were assigned areas that Jews lived. Over time, Jews were not allowed to go to school, stay out past 9 pm, go to parks, restaurants, swimming pool and other ‘luxuries’. They had to get their meagre share of food from a ration slip. The food provided was not enough. Eventually, Jews started to get deported to concentration camps. Concentration camps were the place where many people were imprisoned throughout World War II. Upon arrival to those camps, most prisoners were immediately led to the gas chambers which was a large building that would get filled with poison gas for up to thirty minutes. Some prisoners were experimented on, and those with injuries were drained of their blood to send to injured troops. They were

Josef Mengele stood at the entrance when prisoners were arriving. He sent old people and young people to the gas chambers, picked certain children to experiment on, and decided who would be ‘useful’. The ‘useful’ few went inside and was put to very harsh work, making bombs and sorting clothes. The experiments including injecting unknown substances into children and seeing how they would react. These injections caused blindness, death, kidney growth failure, and many, many more. Most injections had either no effect or bad side effects. Some of the younger children, mainly those with blonde hair and blue eyes were sent to live with wealthy German families. Those selected children would get a small tattoo on a hard or wrist which claimed them as those