Auschwitz-Birkenau

A concentration camp refers to a camp or closed area where people are detained under brutal conditions usually having no access to legal rights of arrest and imprisonment that would normally be accepted in a democracy. Concentration camps played a large part in the mass killing of Jews in Europe lead by Adolf Hitler. An example of a concentration camp is Dachau.

The Belzec concentration camp was established November 1941. Belzec was located in southeastern Poland between the cities of Zamosc and Lvov. Gypsies, Jews and other people were sent to Belzec. Belzec was supervised by an unknown SS officer known as Der Meister. The entire camp occupied a relatively small, almost square area.

“…Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same

The Plaszow Concentration Camp was surrounded by an electrified barbed wire fence that had several different sections that divided the jews and the polish people. This camp was filled with tons of barracks. The barracks were used to hold all the people that were at the camp including factories, and warehouses. These households were also normally split up into the mens and womens camps. The largest number of people that were at the Plaszow Concentration Camp where 20,000 people. Oskar Schindler was a spy and a member of the Nazi Party. He attempted to protect his Jewish workers that were at this certain camp. He helped about 900 people, from abuse in Plaszow and from deportation to extermination camps. In all he saved about 1,200 Jews during

Treblinka was a death camp built during WWII, its purpose was for the plan called “OPERATION REINHARD”. Treblinka was built in the year 1942 and was located in a forest Northeast of Warsaw. Construction work on Treblinka began at the beginning of April 1942,

Established in 1940, Bergen-Belsen was originally a prisoner-of-war camp. It was formerly named Stalag 311 until 1943 when the camp was converted into a concentration camp and renamed Bergen-Belsen. Bergen-Belsen was divided into eight different sub-camps: a special camp (Sonderlager), neutral's camp (Nuetralenlager), a tent camp (Zeltlager), small women’s camp (Kleines Fravenlager), large women’s camp (Grosses Fravenlager), star camp (Sternlager), a Hungarian camp (Ungarnlager), and a recuperation camp (Ernolungslager). Bergen-Belsen was only built to hold around 10,000 prisoners, but by the end of the war the camp held more than 60,000 prisoners. This concentration camp had good living standards compared to other camps like Auschwitz. However,

Liberation means freedom, but during the Holocaust prisoners didn’t have freedom. The prisoners of the Holocaust were sent there to die and to suffer because they didn’t see Hitler as the messiah. The concentration camps were brutal and inhumane but, living conditions still did not improve as much as liberated camp survivors hoped or expected. Concentration camps disregarded all basic human rights until liberation which still did not live up to the expectations of the survivors. During the Holocaust the prisoners did not have any freedom until they were liberated.

Hitler first established concentration camps when he came into power in 1933. He started with one concentration camp, which then grew into more than 100 camps. There were two different types of camps; concentration camps, for slave labour and death camps, for systematic extermination of “undesirables” including Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally retarded and others classed as undesirables. Concentration camps were solely made to kill as many Jews as possible. When first approaching the concentration camps in cattle trucks, Jews were stripped of their possessions and forced to have communal showers. They were herded naked into large rooms with fixed showerheads. The prisoners were led into showers on the belief they were being sterilized

The word concentration camp refers to camp where people are confined or detained. Always under harsh conditions. Without regard to legal norms of arrest or imprisonment. From 1933 to 1945 concentration camps were an integral feature of the regime. Only in Nazi Germany of course.

To begin, some may know what the Holocaust was, some may have only heard of it, but not really know what it was or where it took place. The Holocaust was multiple bureaucratic murders of over six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators. These mass murders took place in multiple concentration camps around Germany. The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the leading of its kind established by the Nazi’s. It included three main camps, Auschwitz 1, Auschwitz 2, and Auschwitz 3. Auschwitz 1 was the camp where Polish prisoners were sent, this camp had 16 dilapidated one story structures, which was a previous Polish army barracks, this camp was the central camp. Auschwitz 2 was beginning to undergo construction in October of 1941 to

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is committed to conserving and protecting the naturally and culturally significant sites of the world. A world heritage site is a place that is culturally or environmentally significant to the world. The World Heritage Convention, adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in 1972, puts together both the preservation of nature and the preservation of sites that are culturally significant to society. The idea for this convention came after UNESCO was involved in rescuing the Abu Simbel Temple in Egypt. The building of the Aswan High Dam threatened to flood the valley and destroy the ancient temple. UNESCO launched an international campaign to save the temple and the temple was eventually dismantled, moved, and reassembled in a location safe from flooding. Fifty countries donated to the campaign, raising nearly half of the cost of the operation. The convention was adopted a few years later so that the states parties could join together to protect the world’s natural and cultural heritage. The convention also provides access to the World Heritage Fund to help fund the states’ efforts in identifying and preserving sites.

Auschwitz was first constructed to hold Polish Prisoners, which started in May 1940. Later trains delivered Jews to the camp’s Gas Chambers from all over Germany, they were killed with pesticide Zyklon B, Many of the people not killed in the gas chambers were killed by, starvation, forced labor, infectious diseases, individual executions, and medical experiments. Around 1.1 million prisoners died in Auschwitz and about 90% of the prisoners were Jews, the other percent was Poles, Romani, Sinti, Soviet Prisoners of war, Jehovah’s witnesses,and many other of unknown people. One Hundred Forty-Four prisoners were known to have escaped Auschwitz successfully. On January 1945 Soviet Union's showed up at Auschwitz and most of the population was evacuated

The map of concentration camp found in Nazi files would be a better source to answer the question “What was the layout of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz?”. There will be three main reasons to support this argument.

The concentration camp was a place where they took jewish people and had them killed or beaten up because they were jews. In April 1940, the first commandant was a man named Rudolph Hoss for Auschwitz. Auschwitz-Birkenau was a general term for the network of Nazi concentration and Labor camps. The camp was mostly described by people as “The Death Camp” because it was basically a camp for killing jewish people( Auschwitz 1).

   As noticeable, the daily food that the Refugees obtained was much better than the one that the Undesirables did. However, it was not the required quantity of food for a person. Besides that, the meat was barely cooked, and often the meat would be given to the prisoners with ice.