A Personal Experience Of Being In Humane By Pukch

‘We arrived here last night at 1 am and were bedded down in new huts at Changi at 4 am. We have at last fallen into a prisoner’s paradise but I am so tired am not able to write any more today.’ Sergeant Stan Arneil, 2/30th Battalion. The prisoners were still treated poorly but it was nothing compared to the other camps, it was even been described as ‘heaven’ by many soldiers. One of the worst places for a POW to be sent was the Burma Railway also known as ‘the Death Railway’.

How would it feel to be a Jew forced into labor to help function mass killings of your own people? Samuel Willenberg is a survivor of the Treblinka labor camps. In 1942, as he was going through the clothes of those who lost their lives in the gas chambers, he pulled out a small coat and a blue skirt. He realized that the two articles of clothing belonged to his two little sisters. Willenberg fell to the floor in pain and misery realizing that he would never see his sisters again. Treblinka is one of the most important camps because about 850,000 Jews were treated and killed gruesomely like animals because Nazis thought of them as an inferior race. This research paper is about how Treblinka was a forced-labor camp, a killing center, the setting

was made of saw dust and flour, they were made to do excruciating work, and they

This camp, I can’t explain to you the amount of people and sickness that is in Haftling Lager camp (Bergen-Belsen Holocaust). There are so many people dying every day of sickness and hunger, there is very little food and water (Bergen-Belsen Holocaust). There are bodies everywhere, just lying on the ground rotting, they didn’t even bother to bury them (Bergen-Belsen Eastern). There were so many dying in here that they moved some of us out to a new camp called Sternen Lager or “Star” camp as most people call it, (Bergen-Belsen Holocaust) it is better than the last camp I was at, there are about 4,100 Jews alone (Bergen-Belsen

Camp 22 is one of many concentration camps in North Korea, also know as Hoeryong camp. Camp 22 is one of the worst prisons in the world. 15,000 to 200,00 people are in-prisoned every year, a lot of those people have never committed a crime in their lives. People in North Korea get imprisoned for things their grandparents or parents would have done, resulting with three generations in jail for up to 10 years or life sentences. The conditions in Camp 22 are hash and indescribable, and the death rate is extremely high of about 1,500, up to 2000 prisoners die every single year in Camp 22. Prisoners die from starvation, illnesses and poor work conditions, resulting in being shot or beaten to death. Prisoners in Camp 22 are forced to perform agricultural, mining and factory labor until the day they die or, until they are released. Those who decide not to abide by the extremely harsh rules are punished by rape, starvation, torture, mutilation, and death, which also could extend to their entire family within and out side the camp.

I had trained as a tailor and had left home before we were deported, when I went to work four miles away on a ranch. It was taken over by the SS, so suddenly I found myself working for them. In May 1943 they lined us up one day and told us to empty our pockets. If they found even a single zloty in anyone’s pocket, they were shot on the spot. We were transported to Majdanek, which was only 19 miles away – a torture camp in the true sense of the word. For 500 metres there were just ditches full of bodies, legs, heads. We were deported to Auschwitz four weeks later. We arrived in the early morning and they gave us a bed, a real shower, they cleaned us well with disinfectant and shaved us. After that they gave us striped uniforms and tattooed us. I was given the number 128164 on my left arm and from that point on I was a number, no longer a name.

At three am in the morning men came into our house. They told us, we had to do as they said. My father and oldest brother refused to abide by these rules and tried to stop these men. Thus, my father and eldest brother were shot and killed. My mother, sister, and I were made to get in the back of a truck while, my other brother was loaded into another. These men had power and control over us and there was nothing we could do to change that without being killed. I would never see my father, or two brothers again after that night. Thus, my mother, sister, and I were sent to a concentration

Having only the memories of loved ones that you will never see again. Being stripped of all your pride and dignity and the only person you have is yourself. Feeling like you are losing yourself in the process, these are the feelings of being in Buna concentration camp. Auschwitz survivor stated “Today in our times, hell must be like this."

being forced to ride in horse stalls like similar to slaves. Most families being torn apart and put into separate camps, thinking to never see them again. The prisoners could live there up to 4 years, including the children.

Out of all ten internment camps in America, Manzanar is the most well-known. The harshness of this camp lead to constant news stories and televised programs displaying events that occurred there such as shootings, strikes, and a constant feeling of uneasiness and unrest throughout the community. There was no such thing as privacy in Manzanar; a luxury taken for granted in today’s society was unknown to those who had to survive in Manzanar. All men and women shared toilets as well as showers and lived in barracks with 200-400 other people in them. Each room had about four people and was furnished with nothing but an oil stove, light bulb, cots, blankets, and mattresses filled with straw. The living conditions were inhumane, with no privacy shacks that were so poorly constructed they could barely hold together. Because it was located in the desert, Manzanar was hot during the day and freezing at night. In order to receive food, prisoners had to wait in long lines in front of the mess hall and were constantly sick from eating spoiled food.

In Germany, Jews were forced into deadly and inhumane concentration camps by the Germans. They’ve been dehumanized through the torture of hard labor and medical experiments, which is very cruel since no one’s right to life should’ve been taken from them. It’s interesting how the Germans got away with forcing the Jews and other racial groups to work long hours in factories with no breaks for food or water, leading to starvation and lack of dehydration. People shouldn’t be treated as non-humans because they had the right not to before it was taken away from them, and the effort that the Germans put to torture the Jews is really horrific but fascinating at the same time. As far as forced labor, people didn’t have a choice about how they lived

Post traumatic stress disorder. We have all heard of this at some point in our life, whether it be someone from any military branch who has seen the face of death himself or victims of tragedies so emotionally damaging they battle their own demons every day reliving those moments. Many do not realize this is an everyday struggle for those who were prisoners in concentration camps in the Holocaust since there were no psychiatrists or mental health specialists available after they were freed in 1945. The treatments in the camps were so unbearable it drove many insane from the epidemics of diseases that broke out due to the cramped living quarters containing around 700 prisoners. According to the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, unsuitable waste facilities, poor quality roofs, and the outbreak of sickness contributed to certain human symptoms that attracted many vermin spreading even more unsafe health conditions. Meals were

I don’t want this to last for us sister. This is unjust and inhumane. I have been transferred in a freight car packed to the walls with people just like me . The ride to the camps is perilous and horrid , on the trip we are not allowed to leave ever. The stench on the train is horrible as well, for we are not kept in leisure where we may go “ when nature calls”. I am still writing to you before I reach the camp sister , by the time you

Eighteen million Europeans went through the Nazi concentration camps. Eleven million of them died, almost half of them at Auschwitz alone.1 Concentration camps are a revolting and embarrassing part of the world’s history. There is no doubt that concentration camps are a dark and depressing topic. Despite this, it is a subject that needs to be brought out into the open. The world needs to be educated on the tragedies of the concentration camps to prevent the reoccurrence of the Holocaust. Hitler’s camps imprisoned, tortured, and killed millions of Jews for over five years. Life in the Nazi concentration camps was full of terror and death for its individual prisoners as well as the entire Jewish

Besides having labor camps, Pol Pot used many prisons to get rid of many Cambodians. Out of 150 death camps spread across the country, the most famous is Tuol Sleng Prison, or S-21 as it is more commonly referred to. There are only 7 known survivors out of an estimated 14,00 total prisoners. The purpose for the prisons was to question and kill those that were opposed to the Khmer Rouge. Even people from Western and European nationalities were kept as criminals. Before being placed in cells, prisoners were photographed. They would then be tortured until a confession could be made about whatever crime they were charged with. These confessions and photographs were then sent to High-ranking officials in the Khmer Rouge as a confirmation that the “traitors” were eliminated. Those that were waiting for their time come had to endure many horrible things. Their legs were shackled onto iron bars placed around the room. Permission from the guards was needed to do things like adjust themselves while sleeping or even defecating into buckets that were provided for them. Bathing was merely opening a hose on a room filled with prisoners. Babies that were brought in were killed either by a Machete or by being thrown into walls and trees. Those who died in the