Conditions Of Holocaust Prisoners Concentration Camps During The Holocaust

Auschwitz was one of the largest and first concentration camp during WW2 and next to Auschwitz were two other death camps that were named Auschwitz ll and lll. At Auschwitz, there was a total of 8 gas chambers and 4 of them can hold up to 2,000 prisoners (Mostly Jews) at a time. There were 11 million people murdered in the Holocaust and it estimated that 6 million Jews were killed and one in six was killed at Auschwitz.

One of the most famous of these was the camp at Auschwitz. Auschwitz was nearly unparalleled in the horrendous living conditions for the prisoners there. The barracks were old stables generally made of bricks or wood with lots of holes in the walls letting in the freezing air.(Bennet) Although they were meant for approximately forty people, one barrack would house up to three hundred.(“Living Conditions”) When a person died in the barracks, the prisoners nearby stripped the bodies of everything including clothing and would move the bodies to the latrine.(Kor, 35) The treatment of the prisoners was so horrific that they took dramatic measures to survive, one woman even hid a baby under her dress for years.(Kor, 106) In addition to holding Jews in these conditions, the Nazis also did medical experiments on many

Though the gas chamber method of killing people was most destructive and very efficient, many other tactics were used to slaughter unfortunate prisoners. One Auschwitz survivor said, "One night we were awakened by terrifying cries... on the preceding day, the gas

Every concentration camp was different in the way they decided to deal with Jews. During the course of the Holocaust, many Jews from all over were forced into labor and worked until they no longer could. They moved frequently and had to decide whether they should fight to survive or give in to death. (Webb) Auschwitz was known as the Final Solution for prisoners. They were sent there to be killed. Auschwitz was separated into many sections that were always worse than the last. Prisoners were given the very minimum amount of food and were forced to suffer at the SS guards hands. They were worked at least 12 hours of the day, given horrible living conditions and were treated as animals, not humans. (“Auschwitz: The Camp of Death”). Mauthausen was the only category three camp which meant that prisoners were sent there to be tortured and exterminated. They would either be worked to death or be killed for the guard's enjoyment. (“Mauthausen Concentration Camp”). After registration, prisoners stripped down and were forced into the bathhouses. Their heads

There used to be places that were known for torture, forced labor, and murder. People were dragged out of their own homes to be brought there. These places were called concentration camps. They were the largest Nazi killing centers and they took the lives of over a million Jews. The camps are an important part of history that we will never forget.

The rise of Anti- Semitism was affecting the Jews all over Europe. Jewish towns and neighbourhoods were being confined to ghettos starting in 1939. After living in ghettos for approximately 2 years and living under unbearable conditions, German soldiers rounded up Jews and began to place them on trains, not telling them their destination. The experiences of Elie Wiesel and Irene Fogel Weiss are just two of the millions of stories that exist. Not only has the Holocaust left physical scars, but psychological scars as well which Viktor Frankel has written a book about, being a psychologist and a Holocaust survivor.

Now around 1934 there were at least over fifty-five concentration camps, but every camp had a different purpose, one purpose could be could be how they transport them to others camps to do forced labor and other would trap them into a little cave where they made sure there everything was in its right order. You had camps that were alongside the railroad, then you had some that were in the middle of nowhere. The condition were so traumatizing that the Nazis kept telling the Jews to have hope. The Nazis enjoy making them suffers. One of the largest concentration camp was the Auschwitz, it came about on April 27, 1940. It was a death camp. They were giving little food and would get a whipping if they didn’t follow orders. You have people who

To begin with, the first ever concentration camp out of many was Dachau, it opened March 20, 1933 (Holocaust Facts). The Nazis built six camps: Chelmo, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, and lastly Majdanek (Holocaust Facts). Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp and extermination camp built. Extermination camps were meant for killing large groups of people quickly and smoothly (Holocaust Facts). Each one of the camps killed at least 60,000-80,000 people and much more (Extermination Camps).

While there were many death camps that opened during the Jewish Holocaust, none of them compare to the opening of Birkenau in 1941. Birkenau opened and before it was liberated “the camp killed about 1.3 million people” (“Auschwitz”). Birkenau was a factory of death. This place was a monstrosity for all of the prisoners. They slept in a bunk with two or three other people and a blanket per person. Once the prisoners were there, they learned that life would not be easy. Waking up at six o’clock and working 12-14 hour days with minimal food. “The soup was unappetizing, and newly arrived prisoners were often unable to eat it, Supper consisted of about 300 grams of black bread, served with about 25 grams of sausage, or margarine, or a tablespoon

During WWII Nazi’s owened many concentration camps. Auschwitz was the largest camp of the Nazi concentration camps. It held several racial groups hostage as prisoners. The most common types of prisoners were Jews.

A gas chamber is a sealed quarter where poisonous gas is introduced. It was designed for mass murders and killings. The Nazi’s used these chambers to try to eliminate the Jewish race. The first experimental use of the gas chambers used Zyklon B and took place at Auschwitz. In many times, so much Zyklon B was used that it stained the walls of the chambers blue. The largest gas chambers could hold around 2,000 people each. At the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp at least 6,000 people were killed each day in the gas chambers by the Nazi Party. Only 9 out of ten of the captives were actually Jewish. At first the Nazi Party only put physically disabled or mentally unstable people in gas chambers. They only killed the people who they thought were “unworthy of

Auschwitz was one of the most infamous and largest concentration camp known during World War II. It was located in the southwestern part of Poland commanded by Rudolf Höss. Auschwitz was first opened on June 14, 1940, much later than most of the other camps. It was in Auschwitz that the lives of so many were taken by methods of the gas chamber, crematoriums, and even from starvation and disease. These methods took "several hundreds and sometimes more than a thousand" lives a day. The majority of the lives killed were those of Jews although Gypsies, Yugoslavs, Poles, and many others of different ethnic backgrounds as well. The things most known about Auschwitz are the process people went through when entering the camp and

In June, 1940, the Auschwitz Concentration Camp opened; this camp would later be the home and death place of hundreds of thousands of prisoners. Jews, Poles, and Gypsies made up the large majority of prisoners in the camp. Life in Auschwitz included living in undesirable conditions, and being kept on a very strict schedule day in, day out.

The rise of Anti- Semitism was affecting the Jews all over Europe. Every Jew living in Europe during the 1930’s and 1940’s has a different and unique experience. Jewish towns and neighbourhoods were being confined to ghettos starting in 1939. After living in ghettos for approximately 2 years and living under unbearable conditions, German soldiers rounded up Jews and began to place them on trains, not telling them their destination. The experiences of Elie Wiesel and Irene Fogel Weiss are just two of the millions of stories that exist. Not only has the Holocaust left physical scars, but psychological scars as well which Viktor Frankel has written a book about, being a psychologist and Holocaust survivor.

There are three different main camps at Auschwitz and forty-eight smaller ones. I was in one of the main camps and I don’t know if that is better or worse because there is less food but there are more of us so we don’t punished as much. It also means they can’t keep track of us as well so maybe this is better.