Bergen-Belsen Prisoner-Of-War Camp

There was only two survivors of Belzec, neither of them whom is still alive. They were Rudolf Reder and Chaim Hirszman. Rudolf Reder was born April 4,1881 and died in 1968. Chaim Hirszman was born October 24, 1912 and died March 19,1946. These were the only two survivors that were able to testify. This is the story of Belzec concentration

Auschwitz was one of the most infamous and largest concentration camp known during World War II. It was located in the southwestern part of Poland commanded by Rudolf Höss. Auschwitz was first opened on June 14, 1940, much later than most of the other camps. It was in Auschwitz that the lives of so many were taken by methods of the gas chamber, crematoriums, and even from starvation and disease. These methods took "several hundreds and sometimes more than a thousand" lives a day. The majority of the lives killed were those of Jews although Gypsies, Yugoslavs, Poles, and many others of different ethnic backgrounds as well. The things most known about Auschwitz are the process people went through when entering the camp and

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.

The first concentration camp was created in 1933, just a few weeks after Hitler became chancellor. A total of twenty-two were created, and all together included 1,200 affiliated camps. The camps were found all over Germany. At first political opponents of Nazi policy were taken, and later Jews, gypsies, or criminals. Each camp consisted of barracks which were surrounded by barbed wire, watchtowers, and guards. Imprisonment in the camp included inhuman force labor, hunger, disease, mistreatment, and random executions. Prisoners were forced to work twelve hours day, or even more. The sick, old or those who could not keep up were killed by either gas, or injections. Those who could endure

Auschwitz concentration camp, also known as Auschwitz- Birkenau, was Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp (Berenbaum, Auschwitz). The camp was created because Hitler became “convinced that his “Jewish problem” would be solved only with the elimination of every Jew in his domain, along with artists, educators, Gypsies, communists, homosexuals, the mentally and physically handicapped and others deemed unfit for survival in Nazi Germany” (Auschwitz, History.com). Auschwitz was located in southern Poland near the industrial town of Oswiecim (Berenbaum, Auschwitz). Hitler’s team was known as the Secret Service (SS), which included soldiers who patrolled the streets and the men who ran the camps (Uwe Boll, Auschwitz). Auschwitz consisted of

The Holocaust had many injustices throughout this time. One of those injustice acts was the cruel Holocaust Death Camps which occurred from 1941 to 1945 a total of 4 years. “The first mass gassings began at the camp of Belzec, near Lublin, on March

In the beginning the concentration camps they were not even planned, to be mainly for Jews, in the beginning they had started with criminals and political prisoners. Later on Adolf Hitler wanted to have a “better” future, so who ever interfered in his plan was a threat so he had sent them to jail. People who

Male and female genders lived in separate barracks, however family members were allowed to meet. Most of the inmates in this camp were Jewish people that were from the Netherlands. In the period from January to September 1944, eight different transports from the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands arrived in Bergen- Belsen. These transports were made up of 3,670 people who were all

It all started by the French administration being replaced from Jewish to German. On July 16, 1942 4,500 French police began the mass arrest of Jews. Jews from France, Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Russia were arrested. The detained were taken to the Winter Stadium called the Velodrome D’Hiver. They were kept in terrible conditions with no food, water or sanitary facilities. After all the arrest S ome Jews were deported to the concentration camps of Pithiviers, Beaune-la-Rolande and Auschwitz. Most of the people deported were sent to Auschwitz and murdered. Every two or three days about 1,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz. By the end of September 1942 near 38,000 Jews had been sent to Auschwitz from France (Vashem).

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

As the Soviet Union made their way for the camp, the camp began to evacuate its three main camps and 44 subcamps. “SS units forced nearly 60,000 prisoners to march west from the Auschwitz camp system” (“Auschwitz,” n.d.). Prisoners were transported to Germany concentration camps. The travels to these camps were unbearable, and many prisoners lost their lives during the travel or were killed if they could not keep up during the marches. These marches are often referred to as “The Death Marches.” “On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army entered [Auschwitz-Birkenau camps] and liberated around 7,000 prisoners, most of whom were ill and dying” (“Auschwitz,” n.d.).

Jews were moved into concentration camps between 1930 and 1940 depending on when the camps opened and most were kept until death (Byers 26). The 1940 death camps were located mainly in Poland (“Concentration” par. 4). In these concentration camps men and women were worked too hard, beat, and killed by Nazis (Byers 23). Concentration camps were places used for torture and murder of men, women, and children (Byers 13). The Dachau concentration camp was located in the city of Dachau and was not used for criminals but for placing people in “protective custody” (Byers 23). The beds were made of wooden planks, had no light or heat, had small rations of food, and beat with clubs and wet towels (Byers 23). Anne Byers, author of The Holocaust Camps, stated, “Conditions were harsh and treatment was brutal” (Byers 23).

There used to be places that were known for torture, forced labor, and murder. People were dragged out of their own homes to be brought there. These places were called concentration camps. They were the largest Nazi killing centers and they took the lives of over a million Jews. The camps are an important part of history that we will never forget.

In June, 1940, the Auschwitz Concentration Camp opened; this camp would later be the home and death place of hundreds of thousands of prisoners. Jews, Poles, and Gypsies made up the large majority of prisoners in the camp. Life in Auschwitz included living in undesirable conditions, and being kept on a very strict schedule day in, day out.

     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