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

I chose the concentration camp Treblinka, it was established in November of 1941. With the support of the SS and Police Leader for District Warsaw in “Generalgouvernement”, SS and police authorities established a forced-labor camp for Jews (Treblinka). Later on it became Treblinka I. In addition to it being a labor camp, it also served as a “Labor Education Camp” for non-Jewish Poles, who the Germans believed to have violated labor discipline. Jewish and Polish prisoners were put into separate compounds of the camp, and deployed at forced labor. The killing center known as Treblinka II was completed in July of 1942, about a mile from the Treblinka I, and a rail spur was added that led from Treblinka I to Treblinka II. The Treblinka camp

At the same time “The boy in the striped pajamas” written by John boyne took us thru a journey

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 Holocaust is one of the most horrifying crimes against humanity. "Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme." (Bauer, 58) One of his main methods of exterminating these ‘undesirables' was through the use of concentration and death camps. In January of 1941, Adolf Hitler and his top officials decided to make their 'final solution' a reality. Their goal was to eliminate the Jews and the ‘unpure' from the entire population. Auschwitz was the largest

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.

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).