Justin Cebrun
Pilarte
Language 8
7 March 2017 Concentration Camps
Concentration camps played a major role during the Holocaust. The effects that concentration camps had on people were very harsh leaving the people around traumatized and worried for what was to come. No one really knew what to expect from these concentration camps until they were there. These camps were inescapable. This situation of concentration camps really changed the way people chose to execute people because of the effects it had on the people around. From 1939-1942 was the expansion in the concentration camp system. They established new camps in factories. Concentration camps such as Auschwitz provided horrible living conditions, …show more content…
The only people safe from concentration camps were the people with authority. Anyone other than the authorities, could be sent without being charged for a act. They sent people like Jews, Social Democrats, Communists, liberals, Freemasons, Jehovah’s Witness, and people who opposed Nazis. This was a result of getting caught committing a crime or if the SS or the police thought that their race or beliefs were critical to German society. These were only two of many reasons people were sent to concentration camps. Nazis did a mass arrest on male Jews and put them in concentration camps for short or long periods of …show more content…
When Anglo-Americans and Soviet troops enter the concentration camps they discovered many things to show the Nazis used many mass murdering ways. Many Jewish survivors feared to return to their homes because the hatred of them. In the town of Kielce there were many riots and the killed 42 Jewish and beat many others. Many Holocaust survivors migrated west and were put into refugee camps. In westward Europe they built hundred of refugee centers to house them and protect them. By 1953 as many as 170,000 Jewish refugees had migrated to Israel. Harry S. Truman had issued a directive for immigration for people that were displaced by the Nazi regime. Under this 41,000 people came to the United States and 28,000 of them were Jews. In 1948 the US Congress placed the Displaced Persons Act. This act gave US immigration visas for people between January 1, 1949 and December 31, 1952. 400,000 displaced people came into the United States and 68,000 of them were Jews. Jewish refugees went to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, western Europe, Mexico, South America, and South
Pilarte
Language 8
7 March 2017 Concentration Camps
Concentration camps played a major role during the Holocaust. The effects that concentration camps had on people were very harsh leaving the people around traumatized and worried for what was to come. No one really knew what to expect from these concentration camps until they were there. These camps were inescapable. This situation of concentration camps really changed the way people chose to execute people because of the effects it had on the people around. From 1939-1942 was the expansion in the concentration camp system. They established new camps in factories. Concentration camps such as Auschwitz provided horrible living conditions, …show more content…
The only people safe from concentration camps were the people with authority. Anyone other than the authorities, could be sent without being charged for a act. They sent people like Jews, Social Democrats, Communists, liberals, Freemasons, Jehovah’s Witness, and people who opposed Nazis. This was a result of getting caught committing a crime or if the SS or the police thought that their race or beliefs were critical to German society. These were only two of many reasons people were sent to concentration camps. Nazis did a mass arrest on male Jews and put them in concentration camps for short or long periods of …show more content…
When Anglo-Americans and Soviet troops enter the concentration camps they discovered many things to show the Nazis used many mass murdering ways. Many Jewish survivors feared to return to their homes because the hatred of them. In the town of Kielce there were many riots and the killed 42 Jewish and beat many others. Many Holocaust survivors migrated west and were put into refugee camps. In westward Europe they built hundred of refugee centers to house them and protect them. By 1953 as many as 170,000 Jewish refugees had migrated to Israel. Harry S. Truman had issued a directive for immigration for people that were displaced by the Nazi regime. Under this 41,000 people came to the United States and 28,000 of them were Jews. In 1948 the US Congress placed the Displaced Persons Act. This act gave US immigration visas for people between January 1, 1949 and December 31, 1952. 400,000 displaced people came into the United States and 68,000 of them were Jews. Jewish refugees went to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, western Europe, Mexico, South America, and South