Nazi concentration camps

March 20, 1933 Dachau concentration officially opens. Dachau was established 5 weeks after Adolph Hitler became the German Chancellor. Dachau originally housed WW1 munitions factories, but with a new war beginning a need for a camp to house its first 5,000 prisoners took precedence. Its original purpose was to house those that apposed the new regime such as German communist and Social Democrats. Concentration camps are synonymous with horror stories and death. Though Dachau certainly was not…

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 truly a…

Auschwitz was built by the Nazis as both a concentration camp and death camp. It was the largest of the Nazi 's camps and the biggest killing center ever created. In Auschwitz, 1.1 million people were murdered. It became a symbol of death during the Holocaust and the destruction of European Jewish population. (Rosenberg, J. n.d.) Auschwitz included three main camps, all of which forced prisoners into labor. One of the camps also worked for an extended period of time as a killing center.…

Zusak did not include a scene about the German concentration camps. The focus of The Book Thief is to show World War 2 from the German point of view. The book goes to show that not only the allies endured hardships such as rations and unavailability of product. So did the Germans. Through out the book, people such as Ilsa Hermann had to give up laundry services to pay for the ongoing costs of war. This book goes to show that although the concentration camps were a large part of World War 2 for…

school and up because of the maturity level it takes to read such tragedies. This book, even though it is marked as a fable, has many great lessons and themes that all people need to enjoy such as love in the midst of hate, and the true affect of the Nazi occupation. The holocaust is a sad time in this world, and very few people who lived through it are still alive; therefore, we need to understand and remember what happened. This book did a great job explaining what occurred through an easy to…

Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski, was a very vivid and gruesome reading it showed the horrors and terrors of the inhumane acts the S.S. men had done during World War II in the concentration camps. Although the author himself being a survivor of the atrocities and nightmarish times of WWII in Nazi Germany one reading this story might find it too direct and descriptive. This style of writing to many readers might be too much for them to handle but I believe when it comes to important…

when they had a chance to when they were warned by Moshe about the Nazis. In consequence, the entire Jewish community is sent to concentration camps. In a camp called Auschwitz, Eliezer remains with his father but is separated from his mother and sisters. This novel painfully recounts Elie’s struggle to survive against abuse from Germans and other officers, and starvation due to lack of food and necessities given to them in the camp. He also battles with his inner self about his lost of faith…

from the title name I figured it would be a horror story, never the less, I was wrong for the most part. “Night” is an autobiography by a man named Eliezer Wiesel. The autobiography is a rather unsettling record of Elie’s early life in the Nazi concentration camps, such as Buchenwald and Auschwitz, during world war two. Even though “Night” is Elie Wiesel’s supposed first person narrative about his experiences in the Holocaust, he is not exactly the main character who is speaking. “Night” is…

individual encounters that is the source of the valuable virtue to perish. In some instances, innocence may be lost in one’s life before it is meant to be lost. Night, by Elie Wiesel is a devastatingly true story about his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. Eliezer’s innocence declines as God's silence continues in a time of oppression as well as the existence of silence that appears in Eliezer’s voice. The suffering Eliezer experiences…

Night is an account written by Elie Wiesel. Elie writes about his own life experiences during the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, and about all the terrifying memories he had dealing with the death of his family. He was only a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in Sighet. During this time they felt as if they needed to give up, or as if it was too much to go through. Elie was one of the very few that survived during this time. Some believe he lived in…