Buna Concentration Camp Essay

In the early 1930s, the residents of the picturesque city of Dachau, Germany, were completely unaware of the horrific events about to unfold that would overshadow their city still today. The citizens of Dachau were oblivious that their city was going to become the origin of concentration camps and of the Holocaust, the mass murder committed by the Nazi s in World War II. Dachau Concentration Camp, which would soon be placed on the edge of their community, would serve as a model for all Nazi extermination camps. This perfect prototype of a Nazi killing machine has come to represent the start of the horror-filled Holocaust and the Nazi's determination to achieve a perfect society during World War II.

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

My name is Renata Reisfeld, and the words that you read on this slip of paper are the only part of me that is free. Over three months ago my family and I were round up with the rest of our neighbors and told we were being resettled. They came, the Nazi, in pressed uniforms and polished boots, cajoling us with their silky voices to go along peacefully. They said life would be better for us soon, the Jews would work for the Reich, we were needed. My parents and I walked around our apartment in circles, collecting the things that we would take with us. My father told Mama, not so much, this is only a temporary condition. She took the silverware anyway, and sewed her jewels and Papa’s gold watch into the lining of her winter coat.

The Soviet troops arrived in Mir, where Jack`s parents lived, and took control a few days after the invasion. The troops seemed friendly. The Russians chose not to acknowledge the “Jewish problem.” The Russian occupation was not too bad, especially when compared to the German occupation. In June 1941, Germany invaded the eastern part of Poland. They turned on their Russian allies who were caught by surprise by the Nazi Blitzkrieg and did not put up much of a fight. At the beginning of their occupation, the Nazi`s were secretive about their plans and actions. Then, “about two months after the initial occupation, the action against the Jews were intensified (page 40, Jack and Rochelle).” The Jews were instructed to give up all valuables and then pack. The Jews were headed for the ghetto, which “was located in the worst part of town (page 40, Jack and Rochelle).”

Many ¬¬horrible things happened during the time of the Holocaust. One of the most famous concentration camps during this time was the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. The camp was set up in 1967 in Weimar, Germany. Many Jews were sent to this camp by the Nazis. Buchenwald was very famous for their liberation, sub-camps the prisoners had to go, and most importantly for being the cause of the millions of deaths.

The dictionary defines terror and genocide as ‘an extreme fear’ and ‘the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation” respectably. Within these parameters, it is suitable to state that the terrors the governments of Germany and Russia forced some of their citizens to endure are nothing less than acts of genocide. Between 1933 and 1949, over six million Jewish people from Germany and Europe perished in Nazi Concentration Camps during the Holocaust. In Stalin’s Russia, between four million and seventy million Russians departed from the Earth within the Soviet Gulags. Within these figures, there are over eighty million souls and eighty million individual experiences and stories that will never be told. Mikihal Bulgakov wrote, ‘manuscripts don’t burn,’ and following that, it could be said that ‘the voices of people do not die.’ Faint as they may be, the voices of the dead can be heard when one attempts to listen hard enough. Through the examination of memoirs of the survivors, it is possible to gain understanding into the lives of those who perished in these concentration camps. This essay will work to understand how in the moments before their murders, and disposal of their vessels within the Soviet Gulags and the Nazi Concentration Camps, lead to the dehumanization of the prisoners that perished within these camps.

The Jews and other people were killed by the Nazis at random times multiple times. When the Jews were killed, other Jews were forced to do the killed Jews work or the Jewish people would be punished. They had very bad lives at this time.

During a horrible time in history, a courageous rescue operation saved the lives of thousands of Jewish children. There were among thousands of Jewish parents throughout Germany, Australia, and Czechoslovakia who were sending their children-some less than one year-to Britain to live with strangers(editors of scope, N.D.). There were many people working in the kindertransport to save the lives of thousands of children. Many of the parents hoped to get their children back but unfortunately, in some cases, they didn't. Throughout these horrible events, we are able to grasp the reality of these terrors the Jews went through, and what the children went through throughout the Kindertransport.

Anton would bring them what little food he could get and changed the bucket they used as a bathroom. Providing food for six people was hard for someone like Anton seeing as he was very poor, in addition he lived under constant threat of the being discovered, so for Anton danger was always close. At one time the militia and the Germans had come to his house to search the premises and interrogated Anton. One other time the Germans were adjacent to the hideout so the Jews had to stuff rags in their mouths because they were afraid of making any sound in fear of being found. Finally after 9 months of being cramped in a dark hole the trapped door opened, after at first the Zeigers thought the Germans had found but after getting used to the light shining they saw Antons reassuring face, it was only then that they left the hole for the first time in nine months. They could hardly walk and the light had blinded them, and after the liberation the six people from the hole stayed together for a little while eventually the Zeigers emigrated to the USA, Eva Halperin went to Uruguay, and Zipora Stock went to Isreal. And after 29 years in 1974 Anton Sukhinski was honored by the Yad Vashem in the Holocaust museum in Isreal, and was recognized as one of the “Righteous Among the

Gratefully, the Holocaust ended on May 8, 1945. The Allied troops liberated people from concentration camps all over the world. The people that were liberated lived on with their lives and are known as Survivors of the Holocaust. Though they were freed they still held onto harsh disturbing memories and images of what happened during the Holocaust. Of the 850,000 people sent to the Treblinka concentration camp for extermination, only 67 survived. Of that number only two people are still alive today.

Majority of the escapees were the Jewish prisoners, who were interned in the Ninth Fort and were ordered to extract the bodies of the exterminated people from the mass graves and then to cremate them. This was part of the Nazi operation, know as “Operation 1005”, to conceal their mass murders. This operation began in the fall of 1943 with the approach of the Red Army of the Soviet Union. The Jewish prisoners, mainly brought to the Ninth Fort from the Kaunas ghetto, were ordered to burn the bodies of their fellow Jews. They resided in a number of cells in the cellar of the fortress along with a number of Jewish prisoners from the Red Army. When they could not stand it any longer, the prisoners decided to escape. Lithuanian Jew Alex Faitelson, one of the organizers of the escape remembers: “We were very depressed. It could be felt that we were all suffering from a form of fatalism and apathy.” After running a series of tests in their cells, an escape plan was formed: the prisoners would exit their cells after the Germans had retired to the guarding room, and climb the stairs until they reached a locked metal door. They managed to drill through these metal doors, pass through the tunnel and build ladders needed to climb over the high wall of the fortress. They escaped while the security guards were celebrating Christmas Eve. Most of the escapees fled to the forest and joined the partisans; others were taken in by local

After World War II, the genocide of Jews by the Germans across German-occupied territory was on everyone’s minds. Although it was a horrible event in recent history, the Holocaust was not the only genocide of that period. Joseph Stalin ordered 400,000 Chechens and Ingush to be deported to Siberia and central Asia to be put into labor camps on February 23, 1944 (“Greetings from Grozny”). The genocide of the Chechen population has been a terrible event and other genocides around the world should be stopped by efforts of individuals and the United States government.

The Russians were asking for help from Britain and the u.s.a because Dresden was too close to the Russian front line. The number of people that died shows clearly how the Nazi’s failed to provide air-raid shelter. People

In May 1915 the Jews of Panevezys were sent along with other Lithuanian Jews to the interior of Russia by the Russian military authorities in order to recruit more Russian soldiers.

The Jews made it, Riva made it. “[They] are still alive” (Sender 259) after this tragic persecution, with hope, the Jews “won” (Sender 198) the battle. At last, Riva with the other Jewish people have won the battle with the hope she is forever carrying from her family. This tragic war has finally ended between the Axis and the Alliance. Sweet dreams take over nightmares, houses take over concentration camps, sidewalks take over the gutters, and the good takes over the