Concentration camps in France

help his parents receive their visa’s so they too, could come to America. To recieve an affidavit, you would need an american sponsor. Kurt was working hard to recieve an income and support his parents. In the end, America had the final call on visas. Unfortunately, it was getting harder and harder to receive visas in America due to the increase of immigrants. America was proven to be anti-seminism during the Holocaust. The State Department was blocking America from knowing the truth of what was going on in Germany. Camp Gurs had a impact on both of these families. Camp Gurs was an internment and refugee camp in France. Kurt’s parents were sent to this refugee camp as along with Beatrice’s uncle Walter who was arrested at the same time as Beatrice’s father Julies. Food was scarce and poor in quality. There was no sanitation, running water, or plumbing inside the camp. Residents would sleep on sacks of straw placed on the floor. The camp did not offer protection to the cold and due to the climate that had lots of precipitation, the fabric soon started to deteriorize which allowed rain water to enter the cabins. The conditions were harsh and unhumanly.…

Elie Wiesel was born on Sighet, Transylvania on September 30, 1928. He grew up with his three sisters, his mom, and his dad being taught all about Jewish religion. He lived here 15 years of his life. At the age of 15, when World War II was beginning, he and his entire family were raptured and taken to a concentration camp in Auschwitz. He lived many years in this concentration; he lived in horrible and inhumane conditions. In this camp, only him, his dad and his two older sister…

The Nazis established a concentration camp near the town of Natzweiler, 31 miles south of Strasbourg, on a hill in the Vosges Mountains. Natzweiler-Struthof was one of the smallest concentration camps. It was apparently established after Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect, who had been on an inspection tour of recently occupied France and had noticed that there was granite deposits in the Natzweiler area. The Deutsche Erd-und Steinwerke GmbH AKA “The German Earth and Stone-Works Ltd”,reacted to…

Concentration camps In this paper about the Concentration camps in World War II. I will be talking about what the Concentration camps were and what they did. This will be how harsh and bad they were. I hope you learn a lot about the camps in this paper. So what were the Concentration Camps? Well they were Camps for the Jews. Each camp was about 15 miles big but the major ones like Auschwitz was about 37 miles big. Dubuque is about 31 miles big and Auschwitz is 37 miles big. ("Auschwitz."…

in Sighetu Marmației, Romania, September 30, 1928. He is raised by Sarah Feig and Shlomo Wiesel in an Orthodox Jewish community. He had two older sisters, Hilda and Bea and a younger Sister, Tsiporah. He was influenced by the religious believes of his grandmother, he pursued religious studies at a yeshiva at a young age. In March 1944, his family was captured and sent to a Jewish ghetto where he lived until May then they were sent to Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp, where Wiesel and his…

Elie Wiesel and Jaques Matzner shared similar characteristics and experience in the concentration camps. They are both male and sadly the only ones to survive the Holocaust in their family. When Elie was being transported into Auschwitz he had to ride in some sort of trains which is similar to Jaques because he too had to ride a train to Auschwitz. The trains contained many people and were typically packed. There would also be casualties within the trains because people would be crushed to death…

“Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?, said Elie Wiesel.” In his speech, The Nobel Prize, one can feel his pain and agony about the Holocaust. One can imagine the horrific events that a person went through at a concentration camp not knowing when it will come to an end. Thus at the same time, the question, why was everyone silent when the holocaust was happening? comes into play.…

From Poland, the Soviet troops went on to take the Baltic States and Germany continued towards France. Hitler’s goal was not just to take control of the world; he also had intentions of creating a supreme Arian race. Slowly, Hitler began to oppress the Jewish people of Germany. Germany’s first official concentration camp, Dachau, was opened in March of 1933. Many of Dachau’s first prisoners were communists. Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi Elite guard, also known as the SS, ran this…

Ravensbruck Ravensbruck was the largest women's concentration camp that was active during WWII. There were over 132,000 prisoners that were held captive there. During this time, Adolf Hitler was the Dictator of Germany and his mission was to execute the entire Jewish population. Concentration camps are camps where a large number of prisoners are forced to stay and perform hard labor and most likely be killed. The prisoners suffered while at the camp. If they survived, they still suffered from…

A Camp? Eleven Million People were killed during the holocaust, six million of them were Jewish, and one million were children! There were about six major death camps that consist of the same ideas. This means they killed and did many things the exact same thing as each other. This event will change the future for many people in Germany especially Jews, forever! To start off, how would the nazi soldiers kill the Jews and many other people at these camps? One of the main uses was the gas…