The Holocaust: Concentration Camps During The Holocaust

Concentration Camps The Holocaust was traumatizing event in the 1900s. It was a life changing event for the Jews. This time period went down in history. Rudolf Hoss, estimated during Nuremberg Trial that nearly three million people died while being held hostage in death camps. Also, ninety percent of the ones killed were known as Jews. In death camps the people who were known as “different” suffered from cruel treatment, harsh environment and immoral medical experiments. Well, we all know HItler had millions of people killed in death camps. It seemed, due to history that Hitler was a racist man. Hitler disliked any other race that was not considered his race. “That if they eliminated the people who stood in their way and the degenerates and
racially inferior, they-the great Germans would prosper” (Schwartz). So, Hitler wanted to kill a lot of people that he thought would be in their way from prospering. Hitler decided to wipe out the closest place to Germany. In the east was Poland. Hitler knew that Poland had scarcely enough military power to defeat against the great Germans. The Germans mind was set to destroy all people that was not like them. Heinrich stated “All poles will disappear from the world. . . It is essential that the great German people should consider it as an major task to destroy all poles” (Schwartz). Heinrich Himmler was apart of The Holocaust. Himmler was the first German to set up a concentration camp at Dachau. “In 1933, he had set up the first concentration camp in Dachau and the next few years, Hitler's encouragement, greatly extended the range of people who qualified for interment in the camps” (Schwartz). The arrival to the death camps was not a overnight trip.
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”
(Moshe). A great deal of people died just due to the journey. It was too many different people with different health issues crowded into one little space. Some became sick and died. Some died from starvation and dehydration. The jews have finally arrived to their death sites on one day in March 1942. Many trains had arrived and delivered Jews on a daily basis. The Jews was traveling from different places all over Europe. Once Jews arrived to the death camps they would aggressively thrown out of the carts. “On arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau the trains would pull up on unloading ramp in front of the awaiting SS officers and guards, Kapos, and the Sonderkommando” ( The Holocaust Explained). The people could not bring none of the items they had brought with them after unloading. The people that was waiting on them was the guards. The guards commanded that they had to stand in a single file line. The Jews was about to be selected to which camp they were going to be sent to. They had absolutely no idea where they were and the exact reason of them being there. The jews would be commanded to go to the horrible death camps or the cruel gas chambers. The Nazis’ killed mainly all the people they considered “different” or “uncommon” all at one time. There was some left over that did not get killed all at once. “The majority of the remainder died as a result of overwork, ill-treatment, disease or lack of food” (The Holocaust Explained). The poor people was barely fed enough to survive a hard day of work. The Jews that was inside doing slave labour inside camps was work 12 hours a day. The Jews was barely being fed. They would be fed only a little during morning and evenings. “For prisoners, meal times were most important event of the day. After morning roll call the prisoners would be given their morning ‘meal’ - imitation coffee or herbal ‘tea’. For lunch prisoners may have been given watery soup. If they were Lucky, they might find a piece of turnip or potato peel. In evening prisoners may have been given a small piece of black bread; they may also have received a tiny piece of sausage, or some marmalade or cheese. The bread was supposed to last
The prisoners for the morning also, so prisoners would try to hide it on their person whilst sleep” (The Holocaust Explained).
Many died not from just being killed, but also from starvation and illnesses. “ The most current reliable figures from scholars are at least 500,000 and perhaps as many as over three- quarters of a million of a million died as a result of the inhuman slave labour, hunger and disease in concentration camps” (Holocaust).
The death camps were made up of plentiful other camps.
They had the ghettos, POW camps, transit camps, police camps, forced labour camps, women camps, and work-and reformatory camps (Holocaust). If any prisoners decided to try and escape the concentration camp they would be killed. The camp was surrounded with barbed wire, guards and watch towers.
The Extermination camp was another one that played a huge role an the death camps. According to Project Aladin six extermination camps were established the genocide of Jews (Holocaust). The cruel camp represented its name. The camp was where Nazis mass murdered 3 million Jews.
Children was also included in the concentration camps. The Germans and a few others killed almost 1.5 million children (Holocaust). Teenagers through the ages 13-18 had a greater chance to live than younger children (Holocaust). They were going to use them for forced labour. That is a cruel to kill innocent kids. Some parents hid their kids just so they would not be murdered. Some children was also used as a lot of medical experiments.
The Holocaust was a tremendous part of history. Millions of Jews was killed, murdered and slaughtered. Children was also murdered. Children was used as medical experiments for physicians during that time. The Jews was worked to death doing forced labour. They would work 12 hours and barely getting
fed.