Concentration Camp Research Paper

One morning at Roll, Yanek was pulled out of the ranks and loaded onto a truck, they were heading to another concentration camp and it was called the Wieliczka salt mine. Yanek was put underground to mine salt, when he noticed a familiar person to him. It was a Judenrat’s Policeman, everyone in his barrack got mad at him for being one and taking order from Nazi’s and stealing everything they owned. So the next day while they were underground they heard a kapo yelling and asking who did this, and when Yanek went to find out what it was, he saw the body of that Judenrat’s policeman, he was brutally murdered with a pick ax as his punishment for teaming with the Nazi’s. There was also salt on his body, which was his punishment and purification, all in one, apparently salt meant that you were purified. Yanek was then transferred into another concentration camp called, Trzebinia in the concentration camp all he had to do was move a pile of rocks, but it …show more content…
They walked through a village in Czechoslovakia where the people threw bread at the prisoners to help them through their walk, and Yanek was really glad that people still had kindness in their hearts even with the war going on. After three days of the march Yanek still haven’t been lucky enough to get any food from the kind-hearted Czechs. Then came a kapo who had four big loaves of bread, Yanek planned to talk to him if he wanted to survive, so when he was about to approach him, he found out that, that kapo was Moonface the kapo who punched him in the face for no reason. But Yanek was desperate to survive so he manages to talk to him while they stopped for a break, he introduced himself again to Moonface, and Moonface put a knife to Yanek’s neck, but He honestly didn’t care if he died anymore, but then Moonface had found it in his heart to be generous once, and gave Yanek a piece of loaf so he could