Essay On Auschwitz

The German concentration camp, Auschwitz was one of the most horrific holocaust camps where over one million prisoners containing Jews and other races were murdered or worked in labor camps. Everyone was either experiencing harsh living conditions, used for inhumane medical experiments, or were murdered. Thousands of Jews and other racial groups were sent from the ghettos to one of the biggest death camps, Auschwitz. The life they had was either taken in an instint or slowly and painfully sucked away from you until you die of a disease or the infamous gas chamber. In the camp, horrible human experiments were taken place by Joseph Mengele where he would experiment on dwarfs, twins, and other misfits.
In Auschwitz there were three different units in the camp, all were …show more content…
In order to make the Jews didn't suspect anything and try to escape, they put shower rods in the gas chamber to make sure they were really going to take a shower. It took about five to seven minutes to kill everyone, and once they were all dead the guards would take them out and check them for gold teeths. Then the bodies were sent to the crematories or the burning pits, the victims who survived the gas chambers were used for the inhumane experiments and did labor until they died. Everyday was a routine for the prisoners, first they wake up very early in the morning for the roll call. During the roll calls, people would have to stand for hours waiting for the block kapo to count each prisoner and report it back to the SS officers. After roll call they have their morning breakfast, imitation coffee or herbal tea, for lunch they received watery soup and might find a piece of turnip of a peel of a potato and at night they get a piece of black bread which wasn't enough gain strength for anything. A normal lifespan lasted about a couple of weeks if you were lucky enough to not be called to the gas