Concentration Camp Diary

The concentration camps of the Holocaust were home to countless injustices to humanity. Not only were the prisoners starved to the brink of death, but they were also treated as animals, disciplined through beatings nearly every day. Most would not expect an ill-prepared young boy to survive such conditions. Nevertheless, in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Wiesel defies the odds and survives to tell the story. Wiesel considers this survival merely luck, yet luck was not the only factor to come into play: his father had an even greater impact. Prior to their arrival at Auschwitz, Wiesel lacked a close relationship with his rather detached father; however, when faced by grueling concentration camp life, the bond between Wiesel and his father ultimately enables Wiesel’s survival.

Many people may know the holocaust as one of the deadliest genocides in history. The killing of more than 10 million innocent people was led by fascist and leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler. The Auschwitz concentration camp was one of the central and most infamous camps of all. About 4.1 million people were executed at Auschwitz for their sexual orientation, religion or race. The Auschwitz concentration camp, a major extermination and labor camp during the holocaust, embodies the characteristic of deadliness through extensive labor and ruthless murdering of Jews and other “flawed” citizens.

Dear Mr. Wiesel, I have read your book ‘Night’ and I really like it. In fact, it's shed more light on things I didn't know about the Holocaust. I never fully grasped what people could actually go through and how much hurt they could go through before they break. You didn't break tho, you were able to stay strong and not let anything get to you. You may have changed while you were in that camp, Mr. Wiesel but most people wouldn't have made it out if they went through that today so in my eyes you are a hero, if you wouldn't have been strong I wouldn't have read this story and I wouldn't know how strong I have to be to get through life. If you can live through that I can live through anything, so thank you. I'm so very sorry that you went through

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.

I know that when I woke up I could smell the blood and rotting bodies in the air. The camp was quiet there was no one there. The camp was in a secluded wooded area and I could tell it had just rained. I looked in all of the women’s barracks to see if their was anyone still alive. At the look of each barrack with all the women and children lying their dead my heart sank deeper. I couldn’t wrap my head around how there was around a hundred thousand people staying there and I was the only known survivor. Before the war they all had families and jobs and now they lay here at my feet dead. I couldn’t bear to see the looks of anguish of the faces so I stopped looking. There was no food anywhere and I was exhausted. The soldiers thought everyone here was dead so they weren’t coming back so I had to find a way to escape. I started to walk into the woods. I ate some of the plants and berries along the way and tried to kill some smaller animals for meat. I finally made it out of the woods into a farmer's fields. Luckily, the farmer was Jewish and let me stay in his barn. He and his wife snuck food out to me as much as they could. Once I had regained my strength I left them, I was causing them more trouble than I was worth. I was sixteen years of age and ninety-three pounds. My shot wounds were starting to heal and I was starting to mentally recover. They told me the safest place to go was Israel. I took off with a sack of food a pair of shoes and two sets of clothes and the prayers from those two

Well I think if Anne would of died the diary would not get published and it would not be famous like it is know. I feel like nothing would've happened if she lived with the journal.This was like good because it got published and people got too here the story of her life. Even know she ain't here u can still read her diary the is pretty indepth. I thought the book was pretty good. So I think she did live beyond her death because people all over the world red it and it makes you realize how good our life is now. I think anne had a pretty good life during the holocaust because at least she was with her family instead of like being in a different place without you family. If they would of survived the war oi think anne would of just kept the diary

Have you ever wondered what happens at concentration camps? Have you ever thought about how harsh it was to be a jew at the time. Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be treated at the camps? It’s a very cruel place to be in. The Nazis are cruel and unfair to the jews and punish them unfairly. They make them do dangerous work and then kill them shortly afterwards. Here are some different things that they do to the jews at the camps.

The Auschwitz-Birkneau concentration camp was established I 1940 by the Germans. It's located just outside Oswiecim, Poland. The original reason of establishment was that the mass arrests of Poles were too much for the capacity of local prisons. Eventually, it became the largest death camp of the Holocaust.

He was amazed at the number of people who could be killed at once. On October

Jews are constantly being punished in these concentration camps, whether not being present during roll-call to the harsh labor and the lack of nutrition provided. The soldiers take roll call very seriously, Abel emphasizes that judgement will be passed onto the folks lined up for those who disrupt roll call or can’t stand still for a duration of the time. Folks in these concentration camps are forced to work for long periods of time in a day. “whoever has a pair of wooden soles tied to his feet with a leather strap is rich” (13). Many Jews are without shoes and this can cause serious infections. Starvation is a major problem for the people in the camp since the German soldiers limit the amount of sustenance. Digestion is a major problem for

Sweat beads dripping down my forehead, loud thuds in my head and a dark, dark quiet room. I kicked the blanket off of me, it almost felt like I was lifting a heavy weight off my shoulder and throwing the burden out the window. I spun my feet around and got up quickly, the world spun with me as if I was being sucked into an inevitable vivid hole like in Alice in Wonderland. I could feel the adrenaline rush. My heart was beating irregularly and I had a blurred vision. I managed to balance my feet on the cold, hard wooden floor. I felt a shiver scamper down my spine. I started fumbling for my calendar. Same day today, 10 years ago, 20th of September 1944, I was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the Westerbork transit concentration camp and

Years after the liberation of the German Concentration Camps, one can still be overwhelmed with so many questions - mostly “Why?”. Why would a nation of people feel the need to cause incomprehensible pain to an entire culture of people? Why would a nation support the need to conduct the most horrendous medical experiments on a group of their own citizens? Why would so many blindly follow and adhere to orders to inflict suffering on men, women, and children whose only fault was being born Jewish, disabled, or otherwise deemed expendable? These questions cause newer generations to examine the “whys” so that, as a global community, we never repeat such atrocities again.

“We’ll be fine honey… don't give up we'll see eachother again I promise”, my mother said as they pulled us apart into different rooms. Her voice was shaken, we had been been sent to Auschwitz and during the trip here she cried and pleaded the entire time. As if they would suddenly have sympathy for us… during our entire time here there was not one commander that at least seemed to have any sympathy or remorse for us… they actually seemed to be enjoying our suffering. My mother was gone now and I, along with a few other dozen of us were escorted to another room. We had just been examined by the doctors and the people who I was with were mainly young girls. Many with their mothers… they all looked at me as if I was some lost puppy. I could

Have you ever experienced a bad event in history? Can you imagine being treated as if you were worthless? Back then during World War II, people suffered because of who they were as a person. Not only were they treated horribly in the physical state, but in their metal state as well.

Today must be the most life changing day of my life. I now know what had really happened in concentration camps. Prior to today I thought concentration camps were places of worship for the Jews, but no. I have literally seen hell. I don’t think I will ever be able to live life with the same mentality again. Today is the most horrific day of my life.