Auschwitz Death Camp Essay

The Holocaust was a terrible time period where indescribable crimes were committed against the Jews. No one would have thought the thousands of helpless Jews that were slaughtered during Hitler 's power. Jews would only plea and their prayers were heard only until liberation day. In the meantime, many Jews and other people were sent from ghettos to concentration camps. The big concentration camp they were sent to was named Auschwitz. There were three camps at Auschwitz. There were many techniques of killing at high speeds. Death camp was either cut short or made you think of doing stuff you wouldn’t think of doing.
Before the Germans putting the Jews into ghettos, political inquiry took place. Supposedly the Germans were jealous of the Jews. …show more content…
In May 1940, Auschwitz I was built and equipped with a gas chamber and crematorium to start eliminating small groups. This is where medical experiments by Joseph Mengele took place. Auschwitz II, also called Auschwitz-Birkenau, came about in the early part of the year in 1942. This camp was designed solely for killing only. There were four main crematoriums and several gas chambers surrounded by electrical barbed-wire fencing. In October 1942, the last Auschwitz death camp was built. Auschwitz-Monowitz, Auschwitz III, housed prisoners assigned to work at Buna where they made rubber and fuel. There were forty-five sub camps under this factory. In July 1944, around 426,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Approximately 320,000 of them were sent to the gas chamber at Auschwitz II and 110,000 were used for labor ("Auschwitz", par. 12). Altogether, 1.1million Jews were deported to Auschwitz and at least 960,000 Jews were murdered("Auschwitz", par. 13 & 15).Crystalline Hydrogen Cyanide gas, otherwise known asZyklon B, was used as the major extermination method. Before Zyklon B came about, the Nazis first form of execution was the firing squad. A line was formed near a huge pit and one by one, each prisoner was shot. This proved time consuming, so they moved onto other torturous and easier methods. Crematories were the next stage. Smoke hung over the camp like a thick blanket with the smell of burning flesh filling the air. At one …show more content…
He conducted experiments on hundreds of people with disabilities, such as dwarfs, identical and fraternal twins. He was fascinated with their genetics that were associated with various diseases. Another group of people he was interested in were heterochromia’s. These people had different eye colors. Mengele was hoping this was the start of his medical career. He had thirty physicians at his hand for all his experiments. Eva Mozes Kor and her twin sister Miriam were one of Mengele 's two guinea pigs. "The Nazis made me feel like was nothing more than a mass of cells, a piece of meat" (Kor, par. 1). They were taken three times a week to a room, so that Joseph Mengele could measure their bodies. "A minimum of two blood vials were taken from their arms. Each week they were given fifteen injections which contained chemicals that are still not identified to this day" (Kor, par. 5). Mengele wanted to see how much someone can lose and still had the will power to live. Another family Joseph Mengele experimented on was the Ovitz. The Ovitz family was a family of twelve who lived in Northern Romania. What made them so special to Joseph Mengele was that five of them were dwarfs. Upon arriving at the selection process, the Ovitz family was immediately split up. The other seven claiming family members convinced him that they were related to the dwarfs. Sparks were flying in Mengele’s