Concentration

Nazi concentration camps were one of the most brutal and horrific torture methods in human history. Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany established about 20,000 camps to imprison their victims. (Nazi Camps - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) There were many types of camps, including labor camps, transit camps, and killing centers that were designed for mass murder. Over 6 million people died, mostly Jews, but there were also Social Democrats, asocials, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. The first…

WWII About The First Concentration Camp by:Evan The first concentration camp was Dachau established on March 30, 1933 in Dachau Germany. It was made to hold political prisoners of the third reich but it didn't.The first buildings in the Dachau concentration camp complex consisted of the remnants of an old WWI munitions factory that was located in the northeastern portion of the town. These buildings held around 5,000 prisoners. They were the main camp until 1937 when the prisoners were…

life, there was one of the largest mass murders in history being conducted right in your backyard. It is sad to say, but this was the case for some people. The site was called the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. This dreadful period of time lasted for about 5 years. After arriving at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, no one knew if they were going to make it out alive. Auschwitz was established by the Nazi’s in april of 1940. ( Alder, Nagorski 10) Heinrich Himmler, who was the leading member of…

During an interview with Elie Wiesel, Oprah Winfrey and him visited one of the most infamous concentration camps during the Holocaust, Auschwitz Concentration camp. Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust and a survivor of Auschwitz where he was imprisoned for almost 16 months. Oprah and Elie toured the Concentration Camp as Elie reminisced about the horrible events that took place during his time there. The Holocaust was one of the most tragic genocides in world history. Germany was going…

Don’t!” I screech. “I suggest you get straight to work,” divulged the guard. A few months later, by the time my parents and I were used to working in this camp, we were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp which was located in Oświęcim, Poland. There were three Auschwitz camps. My parents and I were then separated. “Mom! Dad! I love you!”I yelped with heartbreak. “I love you too, honey!” Mom shouted with distress. “Stay strong,I know you are…

where you go to get away and have fun with your friends. Well the Nazis had a different version of “fun” in their concentration camps. So what are these concentration camps that the Nazis assembled, where were most of them located, and what were they used for? First and foremost, concentration camps were places made by the Nazis to kill certain races. In fact, “the term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without…

The Majdanek Concentration Camp Holocaust is a word of Greek and that there were 6,000 Jews killed by the Nazi. The Majdanek concentration camp was a forced labor and extermination camp during the German occupation of Poland in World War ||. It was located in Poland three miles away from Lublin Which this was located in the outskirts. The Majdanek concentration camp is a Nazi and a genocide camp in World War…

Section 1: Identification and Evaluation of Sources The focus of this investigation will be “How did the treatment of Jews differ from the Non-Jews in Nazi concentration camps?” According to my first source victims of the Nazi Concentration Camps were separated into groups according to race. “ The Nazis believed that the human beings could be classified collectively as “races”, with each race having different characteristics that had been passed on genetically since the first appearance of…

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…

Concentration Camp Liberators During the Second World War, as the Allies invaded Germany, the job of special units of soldiers called liberators was to liberate Nazi concentration camps scattered throughout Germany and other parts of Europe. These concentration camps were the housing of what the Germans called their prisoners of war. However, in reality, these camps were the areas or starvation, forced labor, and precise execution of tens of thousands of Jews and other minorities under Hitler’s…