Sleepaway Camp

Holes, by Louis Sachar is a story chronicling the experiences of a young boy in the wrong place at the wrong time. Upon being unjustly sentenced, he decides to spend 18 months at “Camp Green Lake” instead of prison. Unfortunately, all does not go to plan for Stanley as it turns out he must dig a hole a day for 18 months in the desert. One question lingers in Stanley’s head. What are they looking for? In the search for a hundred year old treasure, the main character Stanley will make friendships,…

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 Jews from…

inhumanely. During the Holocaust the Nazi’s would torture and kill Jews in what were called concentration camps. Auschwitz, one of the biggest concentration camp, which was actually a combination of three different types of camps located in Poland. There was an extermination camp at Birkenau, a slave-labor camp called Buna, and a prisoner camp for political prisoners. At the extermination camps the Nazi would torture and kill the Jews by…

of their lives during the Holocaust. The play is about the lives of gay men who are living in a homophobic era under the rule of Hitler in Berlin, Germany in 1934. These homosexuals were being tormented, hated, and forced to live on concentration camps because of their sexuality. This hatred of gays or homosexuals was highly expected because during this time period of Nazi Germany, Hitler would persecute anyone who was not his ideal blue-eyed, white and tall person. Hitler even organized a raid…

exterminate every Jew, artist, educator, Gypsy, communist, mentally/physically handicapped, homosexual person there was, or anyone who seemed unfit in his eyes. The nazis at Auschwitz examined the Jews as they arrived to the camp to see if they were…

of the concentration camps famously known as Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. These camps became the site of the largest mass murder the world has ever seen (Auschwitz). Conditions in Auschwitz were atrocious, and the amount of deaths the camp yielded was incomprehensible. In 1940, the Auschwitz Concentration Camp rose to power under Hauptsturmfuhrer Rudolf Hoess. Commandant Hoess led the camp to be the largest and most infamous concentration…

Auschwitz-Birkenau was a concentration camp during the Holocaust, during WWII. The camp opened in 1940. It was the largest concentration camp. It included three main camps. One million Jewish men, women, and children were deported, and 960,000 of them died. The SS and police deported millions to the camp. There were three main camps, Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, Auschwitz III. Auschwitz I was a labor camp and the main camp of the facility. Auschwitz II was mostly holding of the Prisoners, there…

system of concentration/death camps that were opened in 1940, and maintained by the Nazi soldiers (History). It is located in southern Poland. The camp was originally used to hold political prisoners, but later on it was converted into an extermination camp for the Jewish people, and other enemies of the Nazi’s. Also, when the camp was operational, torturous medical experiments were being done to the prisoners of the camp. This camp is the most known concentration camp, and it is also known well…

hard labor. When children were in camps they will be use to work and to perform medical experiments. Jewish children will starve in the ghettos and were exposure to not enough clothing and shelter. The Germans were indifferent to the situation. Once the children arrive to the camps they were send directly to the gas chambers. Children will wear a striped uniform. The living conditions in the camps were not sanitary or healthy. Prisoners living in these camps were suffering from…

Livia Bitton-Jackson is a Holocaust survivor. She was only 14 years old when she was sent to her first concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Along with Livia Bitton-Jackson, her mom and older brother were also survivors of the Holocaust. Unfortunately, Livia Bitton-Jackson 's father did not survive the Holocaust and died in in 1945 the day before they were rescued. Livia Bitton-Jackson’s motto during her life as a prisoner at Auschwitz was “I have to survive” (Bitton-Jackson pg. 128). That…