Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

December 1943, his father was selected to work in labor camp while the rest of his family members were sent straight to poison gas chambers. He was given a false name so that he was able to escape from the searching of Nazis. I think he was lucky, and he did not lived in Ghettos before so that he would never know how terrible the Ghettos were. Another Holocaust survivor, Hetty Verolme who was liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, described her nightmare in Ghetto.…

Concentration Camps… the place that tore families apart, the place where Nazi’s torchered, ruined, and killed Jewish prisoners. It all started in the month of May 1949. There were 24 concentration camps. Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp, was the worst of them all because of the many gas chambers, poor living conditions, and the death marches that killed millions of Jews. Most Concentration Camps contained one or two gas chambers. But Auschwitz had eight gas chambers. Auschwitz had…

people were unaware of the existence of Concentration Camps. Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany established almost 40,000 camp’s used to imprison millions of victims. Amongst those 40,000 camps were Buchenwald, Dachau, Sobibor, Bergen-Belsen, and of course, Auschwitz-Birkenau, all of which are the camp’s most students learn about in any world history class. In his book “Night” Ellie Wiesel tells the reader about his first hand experiences in a concentration camp. He tells the reader how the…

What would it be like to be sent to a concentration or relocation camp during World War II, would you be able to keep a positive attitude. Well that can depend, if you look at life in a very positive and bright way overall then it might be difficult but you can find the bright side to a difficult situation. For some it might be easier to just lose hope, and to not look on the bright side. Some people however have a strong will and they try their best to look at something in a positive way or…

The horrible conditions of Nazi concentration camps, such as Auschwitz and Buna, left the Jewish survivors extremely feeble and thin. They were “suffering from starvation and disease” due to the lack of proper nutrition, an excess of laborious work, and contagious epidemics in the camps (The Aftermath of the Holocaust). However, many of the Jews who did sustain life throughout the war, “[had] no home… [and had]…

different concentration camps and what effect did it have on the victims and the bystanders of the Holocaust? The significance of having three types of concentration camps was that Hitler, the SS and the Nazis were able to concentrate their sub-human victims. Having three types of concentration camps was an essential part of the Nazis ultimate goal of the Final Solution, as it dictated the fate of not only the victims but also the bystanders of the Holocaust. The three types of concentration…

and blonde hair. The places where he got rid of the Jews was in the concentration camps. There were different camps where people got killed. In Germany there…

counterparts? Many of these women were stationed in concentration camps. Some of the female members of the SS were more sadistic than male members. Herta Bothe is one of the three sadistic women spoken of in the Bergen Belsen trials. Bothe was born on January 3rd 1921 (Source Bergen Belsen Trial Transcript) in Tete, Mecklenburg. Bothe had done house work until 1940 (Source Bergen Belsen Trial Transcript).Herta Bothe was stationed in Bergen Belsen in 1945. From her own account she had arrived…

people were discriminated against the most. Hitler even had Jews wear the Star of David to isolate them from everyone else and make them an easier target for the Nazi police. In attempts to hide the truth about what really occurred inside the concentration camps, the Nazi…

Concentration camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor, Majdanek, Belzec and Treblinka were some of the most deadly ones. The horrors that existed in places like these camps are unmeasurable, and the had an indescribable effect on civilians, officials, POW’s, and people from all over the world. In order to put this event into perspective…