In the selections in the camp the Jews are evaluated to resolve if they should be killed immediately or put to work. Eliezer and his father pass the evaluation since they lied about their age. The Jewish men’s were to strip, shave, disinfect and treated with torture. Eliezer is put to work in an electrical-fittings factory. In the camp the Jews are accountable to beatings and humiliations. The prisoners are forced to watch the hanging of fellow prisoners in the camp. Eliezer begins to lose humanity and his faith, both in God and in the people around him. After months in the camp it was time for another evacuation. They were forced to run for more than fifty miles to Gleiwitz camp, then from there to the last camp Buchenwald. Eliezer and his father help each other to survive, unfortunately Eliezer’s father dies of physical abuse and…
The Germans shipped the Jews by trains and buses to Auschwitz, also other concentration camps. Within a week the number of Jews held in the Vel’ d’Hiv had reached more than 13,000. (Gilbert,2011) Among those detained were Jews Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Russia. Cecile Winderman Kaufer was one of the innocent people to have lived through and survived to have her story told.…
At Auschwitz, conditions are better and the kindred detainees not as merciless. For a few weeks, the detainees take after a tight calendar of suppers, move call, and bed. Through all of this, the prisoners also had to go through tough times. For example, most of the time, they weren't fed and starved to death. However, Elie still remained compassionate toward others in need. The detainees are then exchanged to…
Throughout the Holocaust Elie Wiesel changed physically and mentally, growing weaker. At first arrival at the Auschwitz concentration camp, Shlomo asked to go to the bathroom and was struck across the face and Elie’s thoughts stated “Only yesterday I would have dug my nails into this criminals flesh. Had I changed that much? So fast? Remorse began to gnaw at me” (39). Elie had just arrived at Auschwitz and he himself was already noticing the changes it had on him. The German soldiers put fear into the prisoners and took away the will to protect even the ones you love the most.…
Historian, Gitta Sereny states, “He [Speer] spent about forty-five minutes being given the so-called VIP tour which carefully protected visitors from seeing anything that might shock their sensibilities”. This visit highlights his knowledge of the use of forced labour and concentration camps, but perhaps not the conditions. It is Speer’s recollection of his visit to Dora Underground V2 Rocket Facility in Harz Mountains on December 10th 1943, in his, Slave State: Heinrich Himmler’s Master Plan for SS Supremacy, “the air in the cave was cool, damp and stale, and it stank of excrement. The lack of oxygen made me dizzy”, unhappy with conditions, he ordered improvements that were delayed by the SS – this in itself highlight’s that he was well aware of the conditions. Within a few weeks of his visit, Speer was unwell and hospitalised suffering physical and nervous breakdown. Gitta Sereny suggests his breakdown was a result of the events he had witnessed at Dora, emphasising Speer’s knowledge of the conditions and treatment of foreign workers and…
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As the Soviet forces approach the main Gross Rosen camp the subcamps when on death marches. Men and women had to walk on foot under brutal conditions for hours or even days until they became weak to continue. If they became weak SS guards killed them and left them. All of these people many whom were Jews were not given food or water so many starved to death. About an estimated of 40,000 people did not survive the death marches.…
POWs were forced to take part in "death marches", one of which in 1945 had only 6 survivors out of 2345 prisoners who began the march. They could be sorted into work parties and set to work in forced heavy labour camps across Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Indochina, Burman, Manchuria, Taiwan and Japan. They could be sent on sea voyages planned strategically so that the POWS were vulnerable to attacks by US subs, their own side of allies. Due to the harsh, ruthless treatment received from the guards and the appalling conditions, it is unsurprising that 36% of prisoners died most commonly caused by forced labour, severe beatings, disease and starvation. (Anderson, M., 2012). They were housed in long corridor-like tents lined with many uncomfortable looking beds crammed with many prisoners with no protection from the elements. They wore small undergarments made of thin material that hung limply to their underfed bodies as they suffering from malnutrition. (Unknown, 1943). Prisoners of war in Germany run camps were provided with sufficient medical supplies and knowledgable staff to effectively take care of sick or injured prisoners, were allowed…
Why do they eventually leave Auschwitz? Is this the end of their troubles? On the way back to Germany, the conditions were as bad as Auschwitz. They traveled in trains made for cattle and cargo, packed so tightly together.…
“Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks”(Wiesel 6). Without caring the Nazis ordered Jews to walk to their trench and then killed them. Everyone saw the executions, but were too afraid to run. “The officer wielded his club and dealt him a violent blow to the head. I didn't move. I was afraid, my body was afraid of another blow, this time to my head”(Wiesel 111). This mainly affects Eliezer and his dad. This shows how public beatings turn into many deaths. Public beatings were terrifying, however there were many other people who lost their whole…
Loosing his faith, loosing his childhood, loosing everybody he ever knew including his father and loosing himself. The concentration camp Auschwitz itsef and the experiences he got from there were horrific.…
Once he was taken onto the trains, they could only eat what they brought. After they got off the trains and into the camps, they only had one to two small meals a day which consisted of soup and a small piece of bread. Then the german officers would work them almost to death everyday. (Wiesel)…
According to the article “Auschwitz: The Camp of Death,” the day at a camp as a Jew started before dusk at roll call where they had to stand for hours without proper protection against the weather. After the roll call was finished they received their ration of breakfast; 10 ounces of bread, a small piece of salami, or an ounce of margarine and brown, and tasteless coffee. Once breakfast was done, a siren would go off sounding another long dreadful roll call and then work until lunch hour. At noon they got their lunch which was always soup; a quart of water, little amounts of carrots, and rutabagas. Directly after eating they got back to the painful and horrendous work and they labored until the four-hour roll call at dusk. After roll call, they were served their last meal of the day; bread with an old piece of salami or margarine and some jam. When it was time to go to bed the SS officers made all of the Jews sleep in really small beds with 10 people in each one. If a Jew made a small mistake at any point in the day or was at the wrong place at the wrong time they suffered tremendously or were killed (“Auschwitz: The Camp of Death”). The daily life as a Jew during the Holocaust was torture day in and day out, and nothing can compare to the way they were…
So began the horror of the Holocaust. "The 15 year old boy [Elie Wiesel] was separated from his mother and sister immediately on arrival at Auschwitz. He never saw them again. He managed to remain with his father for the next year as they we were worked almost to death; starved, beaten and shuttled from work camp to work camp on foot or in open cattle cars in the driving snow- without food, proper shoes or clothing. In the last months of the war, Wiesel's father succumbed to dysentery, starvation exhaustion and exposure."…
It took several of days for them to arrive. They was treated terrible like a lifeless soul. The people did not have no clue what was going on. They did not know why the Nazi’s was taking them, or where they were going. The journey was very harsh. A fifteen year old boy that survived had wrote, “Some 20 railway cars was waiting on us. . . There were 70 to 80 people in a car . . After a while there was muffled sound of closing latches...the whistle blew and train started moving slowly. It was April 7, 1943. Penned in and cramped, we departed from our homeland without being able to see it” (Jack). “The doors were shut, leaving us almost in darkness. The grills,too,were closed to prevent escaped. Air entered only through the cracks. So we travelled 24 hours, without food or water. We were hungry and thirsty. But the desire and hope to see our families made us forget everything else”…