Bergen-Belsen Camp

The Bergen-Belsen Camp was established in 1940, by German Military Authorities. In April 1943, the S.S. Economic-Administration Main Office had administered the concentration camp system. They took a portion of the camp and converted it into a civilian residence camp. Later, they had made it into a concentration camp. The camp was a prisoner of war (POW) camp from April 1943, to April 1945.

Bergen-Belsen was a German prisoner-of-war (POW) camp established in 1940 near Celle. In April of 1943 the SS Economic-Administration Main Office converted part of the camp into a civilian residence camp. The Bergen-Belsen camp complex had five different satellite locations that housed many different groups of prisoners. The three main camps were: the POW camp, the “residence camp” (Aufenthaltslager) and the “prisoners’ camp” (Haftlingslager). The “residence camp” had four sub-camps: the “special camp” (Sonderlager), the “neutrals camp” (Neurtalenlager), the “star camp” (Sternlager) which received its name because prisoners had to wear yellow stars of David instead of uniforms, and the “Hungarian camp” (Ungarnlager).

Bergen-Belsen had a unique way their camp was set up. They didn’t just have one big camp like most of the other camps, they had their camp split up five ways in eight different sections: a detention camp, a special camp for Jews with South American papers, a star camp for Jews wearing The Star of David, a camp for Jews with papers from neutral countries, two women’s camps, a Hungarian camp, and a tent camp. Even though the camp was intended for 10,000 people, the camp held 60,000.

In the article “Auschwitz-Birkenau” suffering was built into Auschwitz by overcrowding their prisoners, starving them, and using forced labor.  Firstly, the Nazis caused great suffering by overcrowding their prisoners in the barracks of Auschwitz Birkenau.  The Nazis squeezed from 7-9 prisoners on each plank (which is where they slept), and about 500 in each barrack. This caused the prisoners to feel uncomfortable, and lose hope in surviving, which is exactly what the Nazis wanted. In the article it states, “Each barrack held about thirty-six wooden bunk beds, and inmates were squeezed five or six across on the wooden plank. As many as 500 inmates lodged in a single barrack”(17). The Nazis built suffering into Auschwitz by cramming five hundred

Mr.Wiesel will be remembered as a person who survived through concentration camps in Auschwitz and in Buchenwald. He will also be remembered as one of the few people who actually was okay with sharing his story. He wrote many books and gave many lectures about what he went through. He explains that if someone want to stay “human” then they have to talk about their pain and things that they have witnesses. If people choose to keep things in then that is how they go

This was a German Nazi Concentration that was the largest of all the Concentration Camps. The main camp of Auschwitz was like a small town, with its own staff canteen, cinema, theatre and grocery store. It is estimated that over 2 million people were sent to Auschwitz. Mostly Soviet POWs and Jewish people were forced into this camp. Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier, volunteered to be sent to Auschwitz to gather information, escape and let people about the Holocaust. Only 143 other people escaped from Auschwitz successfully.

This camp, I can’t explain to you the amount of people and sickness that is in Haftling Lager camp (Bergen-Belsen Holocaust). There are so many people dying every day of sickness and hunger, there is very little food and water (Bergen-Belsen Holocaust). There are bodies everywhere, just lying on the ground rotting, they didn’t even bother to bury them (Bergen-Belsen Eastern). There were so many dying in here that they moved some of us out to a new camp called Sternen Lager or “Star” camp as most people call it, (Bergen-Belsen Holocaust) it is better than the last camp I was at, there are about 4,100 Jews alone (Bergen-Belsen

One of the problems Asian American communities faced during World War 2 is concentrations camps. Since the United States went to war all Japanese, Germans, and Italians were seen as enemies so, they were put in camps because the U.S did not did not trust them. Also it was a way to have control over them having them in camps. Over five thousand Japanese were detained and were intern in camps in Mexico, Montana, South Dakota, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area. There were ten more relocations camps located in California, Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Arkansas.

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 concentration camp Bergen Belsen was established in 1940 but continued on its construction to build more parts of the camp. Bergen Belsen was located just south of the small towns Bergen and Belsen. Bergen Beslen was a large camp that had eight parts. Some were called residence camp, tent camp, small women's camp, large women's camp, prisoners camp, and the neutrals camp(https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005224). The first commander of this camp was Josef Kramer(http://www.library.gatech.edu/holocaust/bergendes.htm). This camp was basically a holding camp where people were sent from labor

Auschwitz Birkenau located in Oswiecim Poland, The holocaust began in May 26, 1940. Over 1.1 million people had died at birkenau many people had died because of hunger, disease, horrible conditions, and the gas chambers. The holocaust began shortly after world war 2 began, hitler and the nazi party rose to power due to political power circumstances. Germans could not believe the defeat that had happened at world war 1, the government in germany so bad with money they needed somebody that could help them out and fix germany.

One year after the camp had begun it soon built a reputation for torture and death (Auschwitz-Birkenau- “The). Auschwitz was made for three main reasons: confine both real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime, provide people for labor in construction-related enterprises, and serve a place to kill people whose life was determined by the Schutzstaffel, also known as the SS (Holocaust). A man named Adolf Hitler was determined to kill everyone who he believed were not fit for survival in Nazi Germany. In order to meet his beliefs, he turned the concentration camps into places solely for killing Jews as a “final solution”; he called the camps death camps

World War II was a time of grieving those lost, praying for near ones, and coming together as one to survive. The notorious concentration camps; established as part of Hitler's Final Solution to exterminate all Jews, left one of the longest lasting impacts on world history. Soon after, the United States put an internment camps where Japanese-Americans were kept shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor due to stereotypes surrounding their race. Comparing the German concentration camps to the American internment camps shows a contrast in the harsh reality of the living conditions in these concentration camps and the more peaceful approach that was kept within internment camps in America. These differences and similarities can be shown in the

When I got to the first concentration camp. They told us to take off our clothes and put on other clothes that looked much worse. Then they would tell us to stick out our left arm so they could tattoo our numbers on. During the Holocaust, concentration camp prisoners received tattoos only at one ... non-Jewish persons of virtually all European nationalities.

Bergen-Belsen was one of the many concentration camps in Germany. It was built between the cities of Bergen and Belsen hence the name. it was originally a prisoners of war (POW) camp. The original commander of the camp was Adolf Haas in the spring of 1943. Then, on December 1944 he was replaced by Josef Kramer. He was nicknamed The Beast of Belsen. Kramer was given the nickname due to all the atrocities