Concentration

Vught Concentration Camp Vught concentration camp was a harsh and cruel camp located in Holland. In this camp many people were shot or died from one, or more, of the many ways of death. Prisoners arrived at this cruel camp already weak and starving from their previous camp. This concentration camp was split into two different sections, one for the Jews and the other for political Dutch and Belgian prisoners. The Vught concentration camp was a cruel and strict camp, a place where many hard…

situations in the concentration camps in WWll. Both prisoners and guards had lived their lives in fear at the camps, and had no freedom in their own lives. In the concentration camps the prisoners would live their lives working in fear from SS guards and Kapos. While the Kapos, and SS guards were working in fear from Hitler, and the higher leaders above them. Jewish prisoners and German guards were thought as two total opposites, but they do have some things in common. In concentration camps…

earth. The Auschwitz Concentration Camp was fully established on April 1940. The camp was built on a piece of land near the Polish City of Oswiecim and could hold about 150,000 prisoners at the same time. Many of the prisoners were sent to camp where they were forced labor then were eventually killed. These prisoners were put to work for long hours and were given no breaks. Often tortured and even had experiments tested on them, millions had started to die off. Auschwitz Concentration camp was…

In Concentration camps, The prisoners had to work for days and didn’t eat at days at a time. Also, the prisoners had to go “death marches” and moved from camp to camp in trains. The rides were days long and during them, the Soldiers through bread through the windows and watched the prisoners fight for bread because they were starving. People died during the rides and were thrown out on the side of the road. Some of the camps were worse than others and treated the prisoners differently.…

located in Southern Germany, which opened on March 22,1933. Dachau was the first regular concentration camp established. Dachau served as a prototype and model for other Nazi concentration camps that followed. Almost every community in Germany had members taken away to these camps. From 1943, more than 100 subsidiary camps were built. Thousands were killed through forced labor and typhus epidemic. Dachau concentration camp was liberated by American troops on April 29,1945. At that time the camp…

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…

Hoey 1 Emma Hoey Mrs. Fortney Language Arts 12-6-15 Concentration Camps Eleven million people dead. So many people suffered all over the world during and after World War 2. Walter Roberts, a loving father, brother, and uncle was held captive at the Littau, Germany concentration camp for three years during World War 2. Him being my Great Uncle I have a special insight on how things went inside concentration camps. It brings him to tears to talk about it. but he says “people deserve to know.” As…

God himself." (Wiesel, 34) Elie Wiesel promised to never forget the things he experienced throughout his time in concentration camps; even throughout the years, he kept that promise. After two years in a concentration camp, Elie Wiesel is finally freed--his first thought as a free man: to eat. Years later, however, he has a new motive--to detail his life in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. In his memoir Night, Wiesel shares about the separation of his family, the violence he experienced…

from. The groups include political opponents, members of “inferior races”, criminals, and the “shiftless element”. “Homosexuals were classified in the ‘shiftless element’.” - Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany. This quote is explaining what the “shiftless element” is and who was part of that group. Most were in the “inferior races” category/group although there were plenty in the other groups. All in all, the prisoners received harsh and cruel treatment for being different than everyone else…

of suffering, disease, and death. The prisoners of Belzec lived in an incredibly dark place, and almost all of them died there. This death camp was part of the Holocaust and it was just as disgusting as some of the better-known concentration camps. Belzec was a concentration camp designed for killing thousand of Jews, and that is exactly what happened. Belzec was a death camp located in southeastern Poland, near the Polish cities of Lvov, Krakow, and Lublin. Heinrich Himmler, the Reich leader…