Female guards in Nazi concentration camps

The Sobibor camp was the smallest of all Nazi owned concentration camps during World War II (Bulow). Construction of Sobibor lasted three months, from March until May of 1942 (USHMM), and was undertaken by eighty Jews from ghettos around Lublin (HEART). It was built around the Eastern part of the Lublin district of Poland (USHMM), very close to the Chelm-Wlodawa railway line that was used to transport the Jews into Sobibor. Sobibor was also five kilometers away from the Bug River which is the…

Auschwitz was a concentration camp used in the final solution, a large genocide of almost all jews, gypsies, and disabled in Germany and some surrounding countries. The main way of killing in Auschwitz was a poison gas that was used in gas chambers.“The poison gas Zyklon B. was produced by the German company Denglisch”. There was one main gas chamber in Auschwitz. There were two smaller gas chambers in Auschwitz. Inmates at Auschwitz were also exposed to slave labor. The main gate at Auschwitz…

of the largest concentration camps established on German soil. It was located on a wooded hill four and a half miles northwest of Weimar, Germany (Berenbaum and Whitlock 1). USHMM shares that it was located north of Sachsenhausen and south of Dachau. The camp was built in 1937 so it could initially house political enemies and followers of the Jewish faith. The population greatly increased after Kristallnacht in November of 1983. There were many medical experiments done at these camps too…

emotions. This was especially present when Eliezer's father died. It was very sad because Eliezer's father had been through so much already being in the concentration camp itself, but died crying out for Eliezer. He was also so close to being free from the camp. A lot of emotions were also present when Eliezer finally made it out of the concentration camp. It was very emotional because he was one of the very few people who made it out of Aushcwitz. These pages also showed the two literary…

Between 1942 and 1945 he began to document the Japanese community forced to live in internment camps in California. In the mid- 40s Lange, who had been hired to record the Japanese - Americans in the concentration camps, was censured by the Relocation Authority War, because she was showing the internment camps for Japanese-Americans in a way the government did not agree. Dorothea Lange became world famous with her series of photographs entitled "Migrant…

after the end of world war 2. Young sister, Rose, has spent nearly all her life in New York and remembers little about her sister or family’s native Poland, while the older sister, Lusia has survived the Holocaust and years of imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps. The play follows the sisters as they reconcile with the past and each other, becoming true family at the end. Love and memory are both major themes in this play. However, love is more powerful than space, time, or even death as it…

There were many concentration camps during World War II, however, Buchenwald is one of the most known. Buchenwald was one of the largest camps with there being around 240,000 prisoners. Buchenwald was a death camp that had very brutal conditions, so some people survived, escaped, or died. War criminals at Buchenwald went through trials or even faced death as a punishment. Buchenwald was the fear of Jewish people during World War II. Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps during…

beginning was great but when they took him to a camp his life had changed dramatically. After that he was liberated and had a normal life. Elie was born on September 30, 1928 he lives with his mom and dad.He was the only boy in the family But he did have to sisters.His dad was a grocer and his mom stayed at home. Elie then was a 15 year old kid getting sent to Auschwitz, he had the number A-7713 was tattooed on his left arm.The concentration camps were bad Elie had to watch his dad get killed…

diseases spread quickly in the camp (“Auschwitz was the largest camp”). There were also many vermin and rats living with the prisoners (“Living Conditions, Labor & Executions”). Therefore, prisoners struggled to survive in the unsanitary conditions (“Auschwitz was…

absurd love story. In this film, love becomes more complicated because it went through the extreme difficulties, such as death, betrayal, selfishness and greed. The heroine Nelly Lenz went through all the difficulties and survived in the Nazi concentration camp. All she wants to do after returning from the hell is finding her husband Johnny and hoping to start a new life with him again. Unfortunately, Johnny doesn’t recognize her and even ask her to help him get the heritage. Does he…