Concentration camps in France

At the onset of World War II, there were approximately 500,000 Jews in Germany. The National German Socialist Workers Party, better known as the Nazi Party, ghettoized and relocated numerous Jews to labor camps where they were starved and worked to death. After the invasion and subsequent defeat of Poland in 1939, the Nazis had another three million Jews under their control. While fighting a two front war in Europe, the detaining of such a massive amount of people turned into the Jewish Problem,…

The Survivors Taduesz Borowski’s “Silence” occurred in a concentration camp. In this story, the prisoners were able to implement their revenge against a German soldier by “tramping him to death” (641). “I assure you that the guilty will be punished, in this camp as well as in all the others” (641), despite of the reassurance that was provided to them by an American soldier they still continued to pursue their plan by attaining justice with their own hands. All the glimpse of hope they had were…

I learned about the Holocaust in Middle school, but not very in depth. I have also been to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, which was one of the most touching events I have experienced. This was a few years ago, so my understanding after reading chapter fifteen, and checking out the maps, changed and deepened the way I looked at the Holocaust. In 1933, the Jewish population in Europe was some over nine million. The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jews and millions of others by…

Concentration Camps People have wondered what it would be like to be living in a Nazi concentration camp at the time they took over half of Europe It was brutal for all the people that did live there back then. There were Germans everywhere scouting for the Jewish or political prisoners that escaped. They were sent to the concentration camps for those people do deal with. Because Balzac, Treblinka, and Auschwitz had many people killed in the camps, much is to be learned about the survivor’s…

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…

Auschwitz is unlike the other concentration camps, while others are only a small part of the system; Auschwitz was the main camp. This concentration camp/ death camp was larger than the rest and have different sections for different actions. Auschwitz had three sections built within it these include Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. In 1942 through 1944 the SS authorities at Auschwitz established thirty-nine smaller camps. The inmates were forced into working in either the coal mines…

town. At the age of 15, Wiesel, his mother and father, and three sisters were taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp. It was there that, the Germans murdered his mother and youngest sister. After surviving a year of horrible atrocities, Wiesel and his father were separated from his other sisters and were relocated to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Wiesel’s father died as a prisoner of the camp. On April 11, 1945, US troops invaded Germany and freed the prisoners of Buchenwald. Once…

Frank, and Mrs. Frank. The Van Daans consisted of Peter, and Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan. The families were soon to be worried abut their lives. The Franks were now trying to hide from the Nazis. Margot got a letter from the nazis wanting her to work in a camp. The Van Daans also got a letter. So the Franks and Van Daans planned to go into hiding. So…

Deported Homosexual In September of 1939 one of the greatest wars the world has ever seen began because of the German Reich and their leader Adolf Hitler. During the war many Europeans were imprisoned in concentration camps, most notably those of the Jewish religion. What history seems to forget is that another group of people who were greatly affected by world war two and the Nazis power were none other than the homosexual men of Europe. The story of one gay man, Pierre Seel is displayed in…

the new camp of Buna. Buna was located in Monowice, Poland. Most of the occupants of Buna came from Auschwitz and were murdered once they arrived. Elie was one of the lucky ones, he arrived after the mass exodus’. He described the camp as “empty and dead” (pg. 47). The other prisoners agreed that Buna was a lot better than some of the camps, the environment was a lot calmer and safer compared to other concentration camps. Different kommandos or jobs were given to each person in the camp,…