The Treatment of Jews in Concentration Camps
Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to have been a Jew during the reigning time of Adolf Hitler? A time of concentration camps, captivity sites and mass murders. All across Europe thousands upon thousands were held captive. Jews weren’t the only ones put in the camps but they were the core of them that were singled-out. These concentration camps took such a toll on those people and that country. It was far more than anyone’s mind could even begin to understand what was actually being done. Some questions come to mind about these camps. What were the settings of the camps, what were the labors the Jews had to do, and what was the end result?
First, the settings of the camps. According …show more content…
According to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “At the end of the war, millions of non-German displaced persons were left in Germany, including some tens of thousands of Jews who survived the “Final Solution.”” ("Forced Labor: An Overview."). The “Final Solution” is ultimately known as the “Holocaust.” Gas chambers were set up throughout the camps and built for effective mass killing. As it was stated earlier, the chambers had large steel doors and no light shined in except for a couple of tiny holes. They were forced in there, with nothing on. Those that were usually chosen first, were those that were the sickest, or the oldest, or the very youngest. In other words, the ones that weren’t fit to work, were gassed to death. One man tells his story on BBC News, “Yehuda Bacon was just 14 years old when he arrived at death camp in December 1943. Six months later his father was killed in gas chambers.” ("BBC ON THIS DAY | 27 | 1945: 'It was a miracle to leave Auschwitz'"). That is just one of the many examples of the millions that lost their lives in these killing machines. Out of the millions that were captured and put into the concentration camps, only a fraction survived. Some made their way into the U.S. “When concentration-camp survivors began arriving in the US in the late 1940s, they were know as refugees, and then as immigrants, Berenbaum explains. Many were so busy trying to establish themselves in the US that they buried their feelings and memories of the camps,” (Friedman, vol.
Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to have been a Jew during the reigning time of Adolf Hitler? A time of concentration camps, captivity sites and mass murders. All across Europe thousands upon thousands were held captive. Jews weren’t the only ones put in the camps but they were the core of them that were singled-out. These concentration camps took such a toll on those people and that country. It was far more than anyone’s mind could even begin to understand what was actually being done. Some questions come to mind about these camps. What were the settings of the camps, what were the labors the Jews had to do, and what was the end result?
First, the settings of the camps. According …show more content…
According to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “At the end of the war, millions of non-German displaced persons were left in Germany, including some tens of thousands of Jews who survived the “Final Solution.”” ("Forced Labor: An Overview."). The “Final Solution” is ultimately known as the “Holocaust.” Gas chambers were set up throughout the camps and built for effective mass killing. As it was stated earlier, the chambers had large steel doors and no light shined in except for a couple of tiny holes. They were forced in there, with nothing on. Those that were usually chosen first, were those that were the sickest, or the oldest, or the very youngest. In other words, the ones that weren’t fit to work, were gassed to death. One man tells his story on BBC News, “Yehuda Bacon was just 14 years old when he arrived at death camp in December 1943. Six months later his father was killed in gas chambers.” ("BBC ON THIS DAY | 27 | 1945: 'It was a miracle to leave Auschwitz'"). That is just one of the many examples of the millions that lost their lives in these killing machines. Out of the millions that were captured and put into the concentration camps, only a fraction survived. Some made their way into the U.S. “When concentration-camp survivors began arriving in the US in the late 1940s, they were know as refugees, and then as immigrants, Berenbaum explains. Many were so busy trying to establish themselves in the US that they buried their feelings and memories of the camps,” (Friedman, vol.