Social Injustice During The Holocaust

Imagine you’re having a fun time with your family doing something, and then some people grab you and separate your entire family. Now you have to work at a camp with a ton of strangers if you don’t want to get killed. Those people that took you were Nazis. The camp that they took you to was a concentration camp which reeks with the stench of illnesses, diseases, and death. That’s what the Holocaust victims had to live through. This essay will be about the social injustices of the concentration camps during the Holocaust.
To begin with, there was Auschwitz which was an infamous concentration camp. The Nazis imported about 1.3 million people into this forced labor camp between the years 1940 and 1945. (“Auschwitz”, 2016) Out of those 1.3 million people, around 1 million died. (“Auschwitz”, 2016) Also, Auschwitz was made up of 3 camp divisions, and the first camp division had doctors that would perform tests on the prisoners. (“Auschwitz”, 2016) As for those tests, they were painful and inhumane. (“Auschwitz”, 2016) One day on October 7th, 1944 some prisoners tried to revolt and get out of Auschwitz, but that didn’t work. (“Auschwitz”, 2016)
Since the prisoners tried to escape, the Nazis got angry and killed all of the rebels. (“Auschwitz”, 2016) In summary, this concentration camp is truly famous for having an evil past.
There was another concentration camp that the Nazis used, it was called Buchenwald.
Like Auschwitz, Buchenwald mainly used the prisoners for forced labor. (“Buchenwald”, 2016) If the prisoners didn’t work for some reason, the Nazis would kill them. (“Buchenwald”, 2016) However, unlike Auschwitz, the highest population Buchenwald had was around 112,000 people. (“Buchenwald”, 2016) As for doing tests and experiments on prisoners, Buchenwald did this, too. This is because on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website, they wrote, “Beginning in 1941, a number of physicians and scientists carried out a varied program of medical experimentation on prisoners at Buchenwald in special barracks in the northern part of the main camp.” In conclusion, Buchenwald was a brutal concentration camp, just like all the other
ones.
As for the last concentration camp this essay will be about, it’s Bergen-Belsen. First of all, the conditions, food, and water here was nasty and resulted in many prisoners getting sick and diseased. (“Bergen-Belsen”, 2016) Because of this, even after being liberated, some prisoners were too sick to ever get better and ended up dying. (“Bergen-Belsen”, 2016) In addition, before the year 1943, the Nazis would only send Prisoners of War to Bergen-Belsen. (“Bergen-Belsen”, 2016) However, over time, they started bringing in a wide variety of people. (“Bergen-Belsen”, 2016) Due to the Nazis deciding to bring in a variety of people to Bergen-Belsen, in the summer of 1944, about 7,000 people were at this concentration camp. (“Bergen-Belsen”, 2016) Although, in April of 1945, over 60,000 prisoners were at Bergen-Belsen. (“Bergen-Belsen”, 2016) In sum, the Nazis tried to bring in a ton of people to Bergen-Belsen, and they didn’t care if the prisoners got sick or not.
Concentration camps are an example of social injustice to all of the people who were sent to one during the Holocaust. To begin with, Auschwitz was a concentration camp created by the Nazis that forced labor onto the prisoners. In addition, Buchenwald another concentration camp performed inhumane tests and experiments on its prisoners. Also, the Nazis at Bergen-Belsen didn’t care at all for the health of the prisoners there, they just let them get sick and die. So, in conclusion, not all camps are the ones where you go around a campfire and have fun some can be extremely deadly and terrifying.