Concentration Camp Research Paper

One of the many reasons why the jewish called them “DEATH CAMPS”. (living conditions, labor and executions)

The conditions of the camp were unbearable. The prisoners were barely fed, mainly bread and water, and were cramped in small sleeping arrangements. "Hundreds slept in triple-tiered rows of bunks (Adler 51)." In the quarters that they stayed, there were no adequate cleaning facilities or restrooms for the prisoners. They rarely were able to change clothes which meant the "clothes were always infested with lice (Swiebocka 18)." Those were sick went to the infirmary where also there were eventually killed in the gas chambers or a lethal injection. The Germans did not want to have anyone not capable of hard work to live. Prisoners were also harshly punished for small things such as taking food or "relieving themselves during work hours (Swiebocka 19)." The biggest punishment was execution. The most common punishment was to receive lashings with a whip.

Auschwitz was one of the most well-known concentration camps, a camp which held many prisoners who were often judged by their looks, race, and religion and not by their actions. In concentration camps people were forced to work and not given basic human rights. Auschwitz was by far the largest concentration camp during World War Two. It quickly gained a reputation for torture and harsh treatment of the prisoners. Auschwitz has a history that can give a person the chills from the horror of the mistreatment of prisoners.

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

Going through one of the worst genocides in history will change a life forever. Concentration camps were used to control the population of prisoners. They would be forced to suffer cruel punishment based on their religion and have all hope taken away. During the Holocaust, there were many differences in the way prisoners were treated and their living conditions at the camps that changed the lives of the Jews that were sent there.

The way that the jews would be transported to the camps was by either truck or train. However the trains were not comfortable at all. There wasn’t very much air so it was hard to breathe and there weren’t any toilets so they had to use buckets. Most of the jews had to stand up the entire way there. There was no food or water so they had to starve. With all of this going on a lot of the jews died on the way there. But you would be considered lucky if you did because you wouldn’t have to go through the torture that would be next. It was the same

The Jews had to live in an area of housing known as a Ghetto. This is were the government took a group of Jews and put them into a dirty housing community. Disease outbreaks were quite frequent and deadly. Many people not only died from being sent away, but just from the diseases in the Ghettos. According to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, the ghettos were extremely dirty. Staying warm was very difficult during the freezing winter. There was a major food shortage that resulted in famine. Lots of Jews died of starvation. They had poor sanitation, with extreme over crowding causing people to have to share rooms and beds. Many places had ghettos that were had a barbed wire, brick and stone walls as their boundaries. Guards were placed at openings and gates of the ghettos.(Ghettos) The smallest ghetto held around 3,000 people. The largest ghetto, located in Warsaw, held around 400,000 people. Many of the people in the ghettos came from the local area or nearby. Around 1941, Jews were being deported from Germany to Poland to even further east. Jews were not allowed to leave the ghetto. If they did they would be killed on site. Gas vans were used in

Not long after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, the Nazi’s began establishing concentration camps in Germany as early as 1933. These camps housed people who were against and who were believed to be against Nazi policy. People from all over the areas of Nazi power that did not accept the new policies were captured and sent on trains straight to one of many concentration camps. Conditions at the camps were worse than terrible. Upon arrival the men and woman would be stripped of all belongings, even the clothing they were wearing and would be lined up.

Once the prisoners got to the camp, they had to give them all their clothing and all personal belongings such as an ID. They also had to shave every hair on their body. Once they did that, they no longer had a name, they had a number “Auschwitz”. The Nazi’s gave very little back to the prisoners as they did so much for them. For example, the prisoners slept on straw mattresses while they were there. Two to three prisoners would sleep together on these mattresses. There were also only 22 urinals and toilets to use “Clothing”. At the camp, they would either give them tea or coffee to drink and soup for lunch. For dinner, they would only give them a certain amount of bread with tea or coffee too. This is why some prisoners died from starvation “Clothing”.

While there, they were forced to live in deplorable conditions. Diseases were rampant in Auschwitz. Prisoners often caught infections and diseases, and died violent deaths. Poor hygiene was the root cause

The World War two Nazi concentration camps were a horrific and brutal phenomenon. Adolf Hitler ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. During the course of this time, Hitler created and supported millions of different concentration camps. The different types of camps are experimental camps, slave/labor camps, and death camps. These camps were the cause of millions of deaths and the oppression of an entire culture.

Auschwitz III also was utilized for holding prisoners. Auschwitz III had prisoners to work at the Buna synthetic rubber works. Prisoners were also forced to work in a coal mines, in stone quarries and other industries. There was more labour and less food. The inmates were required to make their beds, each of which consisted of a small thin blanket and a mattress of wooden boards. The camps had no heat or running water and only a few toilets which the inmates could only use for a monitored 10 seconds. Even after working 10-12hours a day, the prisoners received just a cup of soup. Nazis called it soup but it was just water with a few carrots and rutabagas

     These camps were set up along railroad lines so that the prisoners would be conveniently close to their destination. Unfortunately, many prisoners didn't even survive the train ride to the camps. Herded like cattle, exhaustion, disease, and starvation ended the long treacherous journey for many of the prisoners. On the trains, Jews were starved of food and water for days. Nearly 8% of the people did not even survive the ride to the camps. (Nyiszli, 37)

Nazis had various concentration camps for Jews, where they had forced Jews for work. The conditions in the camp was horrifying. Prisoners would starve to death, overwork, die from diseases, and be killed if they weren’t fit for labor. Auschwitz is one of the famous camps. It is estimated that 6 million Jews have been killed

Prisoners had no access to a place to clean themselves, so they were extremely dirty. Prisoners also had to use an unscreened privy outside that was very unsanitary (“Auschwitz”). Hitler was the primary reason that the quality of life for the Jews decreased so much that they were treated like animals instead of human