Auschwitz: The Horrors Revealed
Germany, World War II, in the height of the war, the Nazi’s were in power. In Poland, there was a place that would bring the strongest men to their knees, this place was Auschwitz. World War II was a terrifying time for the Jewish people; Auschwitz killed, enslaved, and experimented with these poor people.
In the first and largest camp, the Jews were put to work as slaves; they worked so hard that some of them dropped dead where they worked. Auschwitz became a significant source of slave labor locally and functioned as an international clearing house. Of the three camps established near Oswiecim, the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp had the largest total prisoner population. Auschwitz was divided into ten sections …show more content…
The ;SS authorities continuously used prisoners for forced labor to expand the camp. The inmates were treated more like animals than humans by the Nazis. The camps had no heat or running water and only a few toilets which the inmates could only use for a monitored 10 seconds. Many times a prisoner would wake up to find his or her bed-mate dead for sickness, starvation, or just over-worked. Some of the extremely weak and sick prisoners would die in the lines during the roll call. With no protection from bad weather, the inmates stood for up to four hours in the rain and snow. The striped dresses or shirt and pants were not changed for months and were inefficient against the cold and damp weather or …show more content…
An estimated 10,000 labourers are thought to have died in the slave camp. About 7,000 starving prisoners were found alive in the camp. Millions of items of clothing that once belonged to men, women and children were discovered along with 6,350kg of human hair. The Auschwitz museum holds more than 100,000 pairs of shoes, 12,000 kitchen utensils, 3,800 suitcases and 350 striped camp garments. They would take their hair so they could make the inmates suffer more. Individuals marked as unfit for work were never officially registered as Auschwitz inmates. They would usually go off to be killed for not being able to
Germany, World War II, in the height of the war, the Nazi’s were in power. In Poland, there was a place that would bring the strongest men to their knees, this place was Auschwitz. World War II was a terrifying time for the Jewish people; Auschwitz killed, enslaved, and experimented with these poor people.
In the first and largest camp, the Jews were put to work as slaves; they worked so hard that some of them dropped dead where they worked. Auschwitz became a significant source of slave labor locally and functioned as an international clearing house. Of the three camps established near Oswiecim, the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp had the largest total prisoner population. Auschwitz was divided into ten sections …show more content…
The ;SS authorities continuously used prisoners for forced labor to expand the camp. The inmates were treated more like animals than humans by the Nazis. The camps had no heat or running water and only a few toilets which the inmates could only use for a monitored 10 seconds. Many times a prisoner would wake up to find his or her bed-mate dead for sickness, starvation, or just over-worked. Some of the extremely weak and sick prisoners would die in the lines during the roll call. With no protection from bad weather, the inmates stood for up to four hours in the rain and snow. The striped dresses or shirt and pants were not changed for months and were inefficient against the cold and damp weather or …show more content…
An estimated 10,000 labourers are thought to have died in the slave camp. About 7,000 starving prisoners were found alive in the camp. Millions of items of clothing that once belonged to men, women and children were discovered along with 6,350kg of human hair. The Auschwitz museum holds more than 100,000 pairs of shoes, 12,000 kitchen utensils, 3,800 suitcases and 350 striped camp garments. They would take their hair so they could make the inmates suffer more. Individuals marked as unfit for work were never officially registered as Auschwitz inmates. They would usually go off to be killed for not being able to