Compare And Contrast Auschwitz Two Death Camps

Most people have heard the name “Auschwitz”, but they probably don’t realize how many people walked in there and did not end up walking out, in fact the number was around 1.1 million. Thousands of Jews were pried from their ghettos into concentration camps like Auschwitz. Jews, Gypsies, and other helpless people were separated from their families and forced into different jobs at the camp, and some were even killed off immediately if they were seen as useless for any type of work. Auschwitz consisted of three main death camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. At all of those camps, there were numerous ways of inhumanely liquidating lots of people in a short time, like burning them in furnaces at crematoria, or publicly hanging them in the gallows for all to gawk at. For those who were not killed off upon stepping into the camp, Auschwitz had become such a well-known concentration camp because of the cruel living conditions, the prisoner selections, and the medical experiments performed by Josef Mengele. …show more content…
After a long day of being quite literally worked to the bone, and only having small rations of food like soup or bread for the whole day, the Jews did not have a comfortable and warm bed to curl up into for a good night’s sleep. In fact, when the camp was first established, it was common for the Jews to not have a bed or any furniture, so they would result to sleeping on uncomfortable straw mattresses that they had laid on the floor. When they were given beds to sleep on, the camps were so crowded that “prisoners could sleep only on their sides, in three rows” (auschwitz.org). Clearly, nobody would want to sleep so uncomfortably every night, however there was no other option at