Sonderkommandos http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Auschwitz_Resistance_280_cropped.jpg/555px- Auschwitz_Resistance_280_cropped.jpg Table of contents Introduction 3 The need of sonderkommandos 4 Politics 4 gas chamber 5 The work of the sonderkommandos 8 Revolts within the camps 10 Survivors 12 Resources 16 Introduction When one thinks
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Warsaw was the largest Jewish community in Europe before World War I. After the start of World War I‚ the Nazis invaded Warsaw and turned it into a ghetto. Jews were kept in Warsaw until they could be transported to the Treblinka death camp.The Germans packed Jews into the ghetto from surrounding areas. The ghetto housed from 400‚000 to 500‚000 Jews at its peak. The Warsaw ghetto was so crowded that people were housed about nine people per room‚ still leaving people homeless
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could think of. Once they were out‚ Irena would write their name and where they went on a slip of paper twice. She placed the papers in a jar and buried it in her colleague’s garden. Most of the parents did not survive the Holocaust and died at Treblinka Extermination Camp‚ but those who lived were reunited with their children. October 1943 she was caught and arrested by the Gestapo. The Zegota convinced/bribed the German police to drop the charges. Elzibieta Ficowska was rescued by Irena when she
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he‚ like every other worker‚ began as a bystander who watched people suffer. As soon as these men started to fix broken trains‚ build new ones and increasing space within them‚ they became perpetrators who can be blamed for thousands of deaths. A Treblinka Death Camp survivor‚ Samuel Willenberg‚ traced their mens work back to being a perpetrator when recalling “The trains were lengthened and the cars were overloaded” (Background Information). Willenberg points out how these ‘innocent’ men worked hard
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109166 Mrs. Packer B1 11/15/2014 Indifference “What are its courses and inescapable consequences? Is it a philosophy? Is there a philosophy of indifference conceivable? Can one possibly view indifference as a virtue? Is it necessary at times to practice it simply to keep one’s sanity‚ live normally‚ enjoy a fine meal and a glass of wine‚ as the world around us experiences harrowing upheavals?” (Elie Weisel Nobel Peace Prize Speech). Indifference denotes an absence of feeling or interest; unconcern
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Joao Neto 6B Kathy Najafi 07/27/2011 Abstract Extermination camp (in German) was the term applied to a group of camps built by Nazi German during World War II with the express purpose of killing the "enemies" of the Nazi regime (Jews‚ Roma Gypsies‚ prisoners of Soviet war‚ as well as Polish and other). All this is part of the Holocaust and called Final Solution of the Jewish question‚ the plan to (in the words of Nazi) “German lands clean of the Jewish people”. These fields are also known
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“So you didn’t feel they were human beings?” “Cargo‚” he had answered. “They were cargo.” In his own mind he had felt like he did nothing wrong because he thought he was getting rid of cargo. “It had started the day I first saw the Totenhlager in Treblinka. Writh had said ‘What shall we do with this garbage’ I think unconsciously that started of me thinking as them as cargo.” Although he had thought that they were cargo and garbage‚ he had no reason for killing them except. “They were so weak- they
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It was on August 21st of 1943. About 1‚000 Jewish prisoners at Treblinka‚ which was a death camp‚ seized weapons from the camp’s arsenal‚ and started attacking. Several inmates were able to escape‚ but many of those escapees were recaptured and executed. Again‚ more attacks after that followed. Another event that occurred
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Almost 2‚700‚000 Jews were murdered in these centers‚ either by asphyxiation with posionous gas‚ or by shooting. The first of these camps was Chelmno. Not only Jews‚ but some Gypsies‚ were also gassed here in mobile gas vans. Belzec‚ Dobibor and Treblinka were all opened in 1942 in Generalgouvenement (territory in the interior of occupied Poland.) These camps were refered to as the "Operation Reinhard camps." In these camps the German SS (major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the
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Concentration Camps in the Holocaust World War II brought many atrocities‚ 6 million to be precise (Wachsmann 2017). With so many camps not even discovered yet‚ as they are still doing an investigation into all of the locations of the camps‚ but we may not even know how many deaths and the torture of the prisoners by the Fuhrer and the Nazi’s. The Germans had many uses for the concentration camps. A concentration camp is a detention site outside the normal prison system created for military purposes
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