The Camp

Dayton Flack Mr. Baxter 1st Hour 3/2/17 Concentration Camps Concentration camps were a physiological distraught to the people who lived in them and also the people who were involved with running the camps, Even though People believed that this was a steady environment for the people living there and needed rehabilitation to be "cured.", The Nazis killed over 6 million people. Auschwitz was the most popular concentration camp. Over 1 million Jews were killed in Auschwitz. The Nazis killed the…

The Nazis established a concentration camp near the town of Natzweiler, 31 miles south of Strasbourg, on a hill in the Vosges Mountains. Natzweiler-Struthof was one of the smallest concentration camps. It was apparently established after Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect, who had been on an inspection tour of recently occupied France and had noticed that there was granite deposits in the Natzweiler area. The Deutsche Erd-und Steinwerke GmbH AKA “The German Earth and Stone-Works Ltd”,reacted to…

concentration camp in Nazi Germany. It was established in March 1933 on the outskirts of Dachau (17 km from Munich). During the entire period of the camp existence, there were imprisoned 250 thousand people from 24 countries, about 70 thousand were brutally tortured or killed, 140 thousand transferred to other concentration camps, 30 thousand survived until liberation. It is known that in Dachau the prisoners were subjected to illegal "medical experiments." During the 2nd World War 1939-45 camp…

the new camp of Buna. Buna was located in Monowice, Poland. Most of the occupants of Buna came from Auschwitz and were murdered once they arrived. Elie was one of the lucky ones, he arrived after the mass exodus’. He described the camp as “empty and dead” (pg. 47). The other prisoners agreed that Buna was a lot better than some of the camps, the environment was a lot calmer and safer compared to other concentration camps. Different kommandos or jobs were given to each person in the camp,…

very clearly about the struggles that every man and every woman faced every day in the concentration camps. The poem is about the struggles Levi himself had to face while at the camp. In the first stanza, Levi describes the reader who lives safe in warm houses with hot food and friendly faces. The second stanza, he describes just a few struggles the men and women prisoners of concentration camps had to go through, including working in the mud, not knowing peace, fighting for food, and no names.…

March 1942 the Sobibor death camp was built. Many Jews were killed in Sobibor while it was still in service. The escape was only a year later when a group was founded in the underground and a plan was set up. 300 escaped, but how many lived? The Sobibor death camp was one of the first and one of the best. When it began it was slightly lacking but it picked up. Located near the the Sobibor village/eastern part of the Lublin district in Poland, the second death camp to be constructed as part…

What would it be like to be sent to a concentration or relocation camp during World War II, would you be able to keep a positive attitude. Well that can depend, if you look at life in a very positive and bright way overall then it might be difficult but you can find the bright side to a difficult situation. For some it might be easier to just lose hope, and to not look on the bright side. Some people however have a strong will and they try their best to look at something in a positive way or…

Ernest Hemingway once said ”there is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.” In the story “Indian Camp” Nick, his father and his uncle George travel to an Indian Camp where there is a woman who is having trouble in labor. When approached, the woman is screaming on top of her lungs. Nick asks why, and his father has to explain to him that she is in labor. Nick has an uneasy feeling and keeps looking away. Nick’s father started…

Hitler and the Nazis created concentration camps first (Shuter, Life and Death in the camps, 6). The Jews were told that they were going to be re-educated about Nazi beliefs and then be released (Shuter, Life and Death in the Camps, 6). Labor camps were created next to work the Jews to death (6). Finally, the death camps were created to end the Jewish population. Death camps made the Holocaust possible because these are where most of the Jews were killed. These were established to make the…

right now, compared to what I have seen in life before. Taking a walk back down my memory lanes, I remembered how I grew up in a Karen refugee camp that resides in Thailand. I was only eleven years old. My dad and I left Burma…