Concentration Camp Research Paper

Concentration Camps [2] Over the past few years the world has been working toward recovering from World War II and concentration camps were put to rest. [3] Infamously known as the Holocaust, concentration camps were where the Jews and other groups of people were brutally murdered, and were a big part in the Holocaust. [1] Auschwitz was the largest or concentration camp. [1] It is also the most famous camp because of how many people were held and killed in this establishment (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). [4] Uncovering Anne Frank’s diary is how she became so famous around the world. [1] Her diary was given to her on her thirteenth birthday, which is how she filled her time while her family was in hiding, and was her most cherished possession (Anne Frank). [5] While many people lost …show more content…
[6] Auschwitz opened May 20, 1940. [4] Entering into this camp, which was becoming more and more common as the war went on, they knew you were not coming out, and they had to accept the fact that either they were going to die right away or die after being worked to death (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). [2] Among all the people trying to escape, the Sonderkommado were the most famously known people and they had the worst jobs of cleaning all of the corpses out of the gas chambers. [1] One day three men couldn’t take it anymore and tries to escape, failed and were executed (Auschwitz). [5]When the Nazi heard that the Soviet was coming, they liberated the entire camp, burning almost everything and evacuating the healthy prisoners onto the Death March where the prisoners walked 30 miles in the freezing cold, and where many died because of this. [3] Unfortunately when the Soviets arrived at Auschwitz, there were only 7,600 people left out of the 1.5 million who had been there and the Soviet discovered multiple mounds of corpses that had been there for a range of two to three years