Personal Narrative: My Experience At Auschwitz

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

My camp is Auschwitz - Birkenau one of the largest concentration camps where Jews were held captured. Inside the camp were four gas chambers. Each gas chamber used Zyklon B gas. Most people brought to this camp were Jews. Before entering the chamber they were ordered to undress. Once they finished the Nazis locked the doors and dropped in the gas. Also, when they died they burned the Jews. The bones were disintegrated and their ashes were spread out on the fields.

I was one of the few trees that were left in the area of Treblinka. I went through the winters, long and painful days. My eyes have seen so many terrible sights. I was one of the first trees planted in the areas between the camps. I have been here for 100 years and I have seen so much by living during the time of the concentration camp. Life in the concentration camps were not easy. Especially since Treblinka was the biggest extermination camp following Auschwitz.Only sixty-seven people survived this camp and around 870,000 to 925,000 Jews were killed in the camp.The number ended up to be sixty-five since two men did not survive out of the hospital from their health issues. There is not many people who even know where I am located, where the

This description might be overwhelming, but the truth is that this is a factual description of millions of people that suffered in concentration camps located all over Europe during World War II;

Sweat beads dripping down my forehead, loud thuds in my head and a dark, dark quiet room. I kicked the blanket off of me, it almost felt like I was lifting a heavy weight off my shoulder and throwing the burden out the window. I spun my feet around and got up quickly, the world spun with me as if I was being sucked into an inevitable vivid hole like in Alice in Wonderland. I could feel the adrenaline rush. My heart was beating irregularly and I had a blurred vision. I managed to balance my feet on the cold, hard wooden floor. I felt a shiver scamper down my spine. I started fumbling for my calendar. Same day today, 10 years ago, 20th of September 1944, I was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the Westerbork transit concentration camp and

After that was finished, I was sent with a group of prisoners away from the others. I asked a soldier where we were going, and he told me that if I asked him again, my head would no longer be resting on my shoulders. We were marched for around an hour to a group of tents away from the main camp. They told us that this was where we were staying, which was odd. Everyone else was in cabins, while we were given tents. We thought maybe they ran out of room, but then we noticed some of the cabins looking empty and lifeless, while we could clearly see our other comrades inside warm cabins. We soon realized that everyone in the tents was jewish, and found out that the germans were putting us here because we were

I still remember the day clearly. It was an 85% chance of heavy downpours on June 7th 2015. It was the first time I could remember that I actually wanted rain. I genuinely wanted anything that could procrastinate the arrival of my first cabin full of campers.

Imagine a life without talking to your friends, and having to wake up early in the morning from a hard, scratchy, straw filled mattress and eating nothing but bread and soup everyday! Well that is what many innocent people had to go through in the concentration camps during World War II but that wasn’t all!

We were only given a few choices during the war. Every chance that we had to choose our fate, we had to be very careful. Evidently, the Nazis did not favor the Jewish people. We, the Jews, were animals to them. We walked and talked like human beings, but we were looked upon as if we were filthy animals. I didn’t know they thought of us like that. My mother and father shielded me from the outside world. They didn’t think I would understand. My parents were right. I would not understand. I was only eleven. Then they raided our house.

The brisk wind rustled the leaves and the branches murmured. The morning had been chilly and opaque, with a curtain of drizzle sweeping across the plains. The decaying morality and despair of humanity has affected the weather, or have I just ceased being able to see colour?

Do you know how life in the concentration camps were? Do you know how many people died each year because of these camps? Life in these camps were tough, either you can work or you die, harsh right. Wondering the first year they evacuated the Jews, how scared people must have been and how they thought everything would be okay in the “good” hands of their government. You wonder who would put people, human beings just like you, live, breath, eat, exactly like you, through so much misery and for what, get what out killing innocent humans?

Auschwitz is considered by the most the most inhumane concentration camp in world war two. At the beginning of 1940, Auschwitz was created, and it was under the rules of the SS (Concentration Camp). Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp during World War II, where over a million people died. Jews were treated horribly, and many were gassed. Auschwitz was called a death camp, for many reasons which included the deportation and selection process, medical experiments, and gas chambers.

They took us to these fields. My parents went another way. My brother came with me but we were afraid we would never see our parents again. These camps are horrible. No food, (just bread) it’s always cold and we have to sleep in wooden barracks. Showers were the worst because we would never know if it was a shower or a gas area. I fear that tomorrow could be the last. The USA did nothing about it, well

When I went to the Holocaust Muesam with my class last year there was one thing that realy wowed me. This thing that wowed me was when I saw the list of all the children that died there. I will always remember this because when I saw the list I went and put my self in the children's parents shoes and them finding out that there chidren died. Along with the thing that wowed me, something realy made me wounder. The thing that made me wounder when I was at the Holocaust Muesam was no Americans reacted to all the torture that the Nazis were doing to all the Jews. I will remember this because when I walked in to the gas chamber and they explained the gas I was woundering how did the Allies not come and attack the Germans as soon as they found out.

To this day, I have the vivid image of the rooms: rooms full of hair, rooms of abandoned luggage, rooms of glasses, rooms of children's shoes and rooms of clothes. People often can tell you that such a devastating dark places make you feel numb but I did not believe it until I had experienced it for myself. The lack of humanness makes this place impossible to fully grasp until you are there staring at the reality in front of you. Then we went to go see Auschwitz- Birkenau II, where the railroad tracks were the first thing you had saw. This railroad was where families were ripped apart and majority headed for the gas chambers. The massive gas chambers/ cremations were right in front of me was where the Nazis tried to destroy their evidence. Then I saw barracks where the prisoners had been piled into. Visiting a place like Auschwitz is not a pleasant experience especially with the fact of how close it is to my family. It is understandable for the people who will never visit a concentration camp but visiting a place like this will have one face the reality of it and recognize the cruelty of humanity in the race. Hopefully understanding this will help us to never let something like this happen ever