World War II Concentration Camps

One of the most memorable events about World War II was the holocaust. Most people remember the many lives that were lost in this massive genocide. Although many lives were lost a few were able to survive and share their experiences in those harsh times. Many non Jewish people helped in anyway possible such as Stefania Podgorska. During the holocaust Podgorska kept resistance by hiding and providing for Jews in the most necessary times.

World War II, created hysteria around the world that took years to get over. It affected so many different people, but, this essay will be focusing on the Japanese-AMERICANS affected during World War II. I am against the fact that these people were put into internment camps. My reasoning is that they didn’t pose a national threat, the internment camps promoted racism, and the internment camps can be see as a shameful episode on behalf of the US.

2. On page 12, the narration changes. Why might it be necessary for someone else to begin telling Janie’s story now?

Prisoner of War camps and concentration camps during the second world war were brutal, extreme, and deadly. Many POW soldiers, Jews, Gypsies, and more died within these camps of many causes. Sometimes as I’m learning about World War II, I wonder whether the Japanese prison camps were better, worse, or just as bad as Nazi concentration camps and why did Germans treat Americans better than the Japanese did? I chose this topic, because not many people look into the Japanese war camps as much as they did with the Nazi concentration camps. I thought about what happened in those camps that differed from German concentration camps and which was worse. That’s why I chose this topic to learn about.

The Holocaust was one of the most tragic and most brutal events in history. Many citizens all over Germany and Poland were persecuted, such as homosexuals. Over 5,000 homosexuals died in camps alone. Homosexual men faced harsh treatment by Nazis by being sent to work camps, subjected to hard labor, and attempts to “cure” them based on the Nazi belief that they were a disease to Germany.

Bang! Boom! All you can see is darkness, but you hear as if outside. Prisoners of war were captured everywhere during WWII. POW camps had better treatment and were better than than other concentration camps.

One of the main types of concentration camps found during the Holocaust were death camps. The overall purpose of this camp was to kill people upon arrival. Usually the

A concentration camp is a camp where people are detained or confined. prisoners are under very harsh conditions. They’re imprisoned under a very small area, where some are forced to do labor, but some had to await a mass execution.

Anti-semitism in Germany led by Adolf Hitler would back up a plan called the final solution, to exterminate all of the Jews in Europe. Out of the 100 million Jews aimed for extermination, 6 million of them were killed. On his path to German greatness, Jews became victim to inconceivable actions. First the Nuremberg Laws were passed which stripped Jews of their german citizenship, eliminating their opportunity to flee to other countries. After Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Hitler forcefully deported Jewish people into fenced confinements called ghettos. More Jews died here than in any extermination camp due to the harsh conditions and labor. Most people living in ghettos had no access to running water or a sewage system and overcrowding

During the holocaust there were many concentration camps set up and these concentration camps were horrible, people suffered and died everyday. They were treated like animals and slowly started losing their humanity and hope of ever being free again. Concentration Camps were first established in Germany soon after Hitler was appointed, and between 1933 and 1945 Nazis and it allies had established over 40,000 concentration camps all over europe. By 1939 7 major concentration camps had been established

After the Holocaust had ended in 1950, the number of Jews drastically lowered to a 3.5 million (Introduction). The Jewish were not the only victims of the Holocaust. 200,000 Romas perished along with 200,000 mentally or physically disabled people. After the Holocaust ended, around 700,000 to 900,000 Jewish people fled Europe to Israel (Introduction). Auschwitz was the largest of the concentration camps with the largest death toll. Auschwitz executed around 1.1 million of its residents. Treblinka came second with a death toll of 700,000 to 900,000. The exact number of deaths that occurred in Treblinka cannot be known due to record losses. Once the Holocaust ended, Nazi’s worked to destroy their records to keep information from being known (Greene).

Many citizens of the United States immediately after the Civil War knew very little of the atrocities of that occurred in the prisoner of war camps. News that their family member was in a prisoner of war camp was usually dreaded by the family of the captured soldiers. While being dead was much worse the families never truly knew what was going on inside the camps. For the Confederacy, many feared Rock Island, but there was a just as deadly camp just north of Rock Island in Chicago. Once the war had ended the atrocities of what occurred inside the prisoner of war camps became apparent. Suddenly multiple fingers were pointed at what was the culprit for such deplorable conditions. The pictures, descriptions, and accounts of what happened inside the prisoner of war camps became a part of not only history but the media as well. Multiple books were written about the prisoner of war camps, several works of fiction reference the prisoner of war camps. Andersonville is almost unanimously regarded as the worst camp for a Union soldier to get sent to. Rock Island seems to be the place that many agree as the worst camp that a Confederate soldier could get sent to. Rock Island is even mentioned in several works of fiction, including Gone With The Wind. In Gone With The Wind the main character Scarlett O’Hara’s sister in law, Melanie Wilkes received a letter telling her that her husband Ashley Wilkes had been captured and taken to a horrible place called Rock Island. However, while Rock

Concentration camps [ work camps, extermination camps]- Concentration camps where places set up by the Nazi party to keep and slaughter Jewish people. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of the Nazi Concentration camps over 1.1 million Jews lost there lives in the camp.

The First World War (1914-18) created the instability in Europe which set the stage for another international conflict, World War II. It broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating. Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, and World War II had begun. Over the next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and property around the globe than any previous war. Among the estimated 45-60

The Holocaust is generally defined as the systematic slaughter of over six million Jews, about two-thirds of the European Jewish population, by the Nazi rule under Adolf Hitler during the World War II era. While extermination of the Jewish race was the main goal of the Nazis, millions of other people who were considered “racially inferior” were also killed (The Holocaust). This unfortunate group of people included, but was not limited to, homosexuals, the physically and mentally disabled, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Gypsies (Non-Jewish Victims). These killings were a result of a long history of anti-Semitism, and they had long lasting effects on survivors and families of victims.