Ethical Work Conditions In The Holocaust

According to the texts and eyewitness accounts, the Holocaust had horrendous effects on the people who lived through it. During this time Jews were being rounded up and put into concentration camps by order of the German government. Writings and testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust are around even to this day. According to these sources, Holocaust survivors suffered tremendously since they were treated as less than human , they lost loved ones, and were constantly abused.

At the entrance to each death camp, there was a process of Selektion or selection. Pregnant women, small children, the sick or handicapped, and the elderly were immediately condemned to death. As horrific as it was, it didn’t surprise many that Hitler had the audacity to do these terrible things. The Holocaust was an act of genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany killed about two thirds of the population of Jews in Europe from 1941-1945 but the trouble started brewing much before that. Though there were only a small amount of survivors, very few alive to this day, there are many pieces of literature that help prove that this in fact happened. Literature can help us remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust because, it gives different

The conditions that the Jews and other were put through were super horrible. They were forced into boxcars that didn’t have anything in them and they wondered where they were and where they were going. They stood in the boxcars for days with no food or water to keep them alive. (Joseph)(Source 3) Along their way to the concentration camps they were exposed to harsh weather. In the summer it was scorching hot and in the winter it was freezing cold. Since they were shoved amongst each other they suffered from suffocation. Along their journey many young and old died along the way (“The Holocaust”)(Source 2). Inside the boxcars there was no windows or anyway to breath. It was also very unsanitary because of the abundance of people in them and they didn’t have any water to at least wash themselves with. All they could do was stand there in the dark and wait (Joseph) (Source

One of the most sorrow thing that human would ever have been through is to be treated inhumanity and brutally abused. Like the quote clearly stated, “Band-Aids don’t fix bullet hole”, Holocaust had given the Jews a deep scar that would follow them until they buried down under the ground. The nightmare began when Hitler took over the control and targeted to assassinate 6 millions of alive Jews who were living in Germany. They were all murdered in different ways, it could be starving till death, forced to do overwork or got whipped as a punishment for not working hard. Overall life was tough for them, they were forced to work long hours and lived in a poor conditions. Jews were born to be the target for Hitler and the Nazis to discriminate

All of the prisoners experienced terrible things that changed the way they processed situations. Something that no man would have let slide by occurred during the death marches. The book says,”He must have died, trampled under the feet of the thousands of men who followed us.” Before the Holocaust nobody would have let a young die like that. They would have cared, and

Another reason that we learn about the Holocaust is to appreciate the suffering that all the innocent prisoners had to go through. Starting around 1941, the undesirables who had registered were shipped off to concentration camps, which included a variety of transit, holding, and death camps. Even a worse fate happened to those who did not register, and were later found. The undesirables who were

It wasn’t just the fact that you had to work and go through harsh conditions but sometimes you wouldn’t be fed either. During a ten year decade, more than 40,000 concentration camps were built for all the poor jews and persons Hitler hated too. When people would first go there, they didn’t know what was going on ; they just knew something bad and scary was going to occur in the following days. Then the families would get separated into females or males so it would be easier to sort through them. The group of household would be terrified because the fact that they didn’t have their own blooded people around them scared them. Little kids would be sent to a different camp because Nazis found them useless and didn’t serve a purpose either. Some kids wouldn’t even make it a day through out the caps, they would just be separated and be sent straight to the crematory. Some moms were pregnant when they got to the concentration camps and those would be forced to abort and be instantly killed when they were born since they didn’t have much space to put a ton of useless kids. The age that made you survive alittle more was about 15 because they could actually put you to work. For example, younger kids would work in labors and machinery to teach them young and for them to learn for when they were older. Kids between the ages of 10 and 14 who were developed but not enough for the them would be tested on to see how they would react towards the chemicals to see how they would kill future people in the concentration camps. Testing on these kids would prove if either they were using were effective or not ;however, sometimes the chemicals wouldn’t work and would only damage the kids lungs which made them only suffer. Adults who were in group range between 18 and 45 were the ones they taked more care of since they were the most helpful. These adults had to be male howeverr because females

The Holocaust was a terrible time in the early 1900s. During this time, six million Jews were killed, under the ruling of Adolf Hitler. The way Hitler and the Nazis killed the Jews was very brutal and gruesome. A way in which you can’t even imagine without your own personal experience… camps. No, not church or summer camps. These camps contained brutality and misery. They are well known as concentration and execution camps.

The holocaust was one of the most tragic genocides in world history. Tons of Jews each day were being purged off because of the hate of the Nazi germans. Adolf Hitler was the leading man in this extermination of the Jewish community. During these times Jewish man, women and, children had to try their hardest to survive in the concentration camps. Camps like Buchenwald, Neuengamme and, Bergen-Belsen are the camps that were Jewish people put in forced labor, starved and, tortured. Camps such as Auschwitz and Belzec are where the mass killing happens.

During the Holocaust, Nazis imprisoned Jews, Gypsies, and handicapped individuals. They were slaughtered and put into gas chambers by Nazi soldiers.  One of the most sinister individuals, worse than the Nazi soldiers ever thought of being, was a doctor that rightfully got referred to by the name, “Angel of Death.” He tortured and mutilated these soon to be victims and almost every person that became his patient would die by the time he flees to save himself from the punishment that was waiting for him in the form of invading armies and government decisions. This is just one example of why ethics was created. Ethics is defined as ”the foundation of knowledge that describes right/wrong or better/worse. It applies to issues of harm/care

Eighteen million Europeans went through the Nazi concentration camps. Eleven million of them died, almost half of them at Auschwitz alone.1 Concentration camps are a revolting and embarrassing part of the world’s history. There is no doubt that concentration camps are a dark and depressing topic. Despite this, it is a subject that needs to be brought out into the open. The world needs to be educated on the tragedies of the concentration camps to prevent the reoccurrence of the Holocaust. Hitler’s camps imprisoned, tortured, and killed millions of Jews for over five years. Life in the Nazi concentration camps was full of terror and death for its individual prisoners as well as the entire Jewish

It is no secret that the German concentration camps were a place of great torture and misgivings. Many people were killed and others tortured both mentally as well as physically. Only a handful of people (1 in 28, according to Frankl) were able to survive. The author describes three things that were the most important factors that contributed to the survivors' survival: love, work, and suffering (Frankl, 2006). It was because these things that the people were able to survive. The love of their loved ones and the hope of meeting them someday was one foremost reason that they had the will to live. Prisoners, when immersed in work, also had little time to think about something else, and that is why they were able to put their pain aside and continue surviving. If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an

The Holocaust was a dreadful time in history full of the exploitation and killing of innocent people based upon their religion. Mainly the Jews, but also other ethnicities, were victims of harsh forced labor and merciless mistreatment that is unimaginable. They were held in foul conditions that aided in the spread of diseases and they faced malnutrition leading to the fatalities of many. Multitudes of people were not only killed by the disease, mistreatment and poor living conditions but even more were exterminated by the Nazis. Concentration camps were inhumane, and unsanitary leading to the deaths of many innocent people.

Young children were targeted in particular by the Nazis to be murdered during the Holocaust. They were targeted because they would grow up to parent a new set of Jews, that sent a threat to the Nazi’s. Many suffocated in cattle cars on the way to the camps. Some died in crowds, but those who survived were taken to the gas chambers to be killed. As many as 1.5 million children were killed in the Holocaust.

Imagine being in a place with horror, abandonment, torture, suffering, famine, and misery; in a place of death, abuse, a hopeless state of mind; dying is better than going through something like this. This is the exact portrayal of what the victims of the Holocaust have gone through. The Holocaust was the mass slaughter of (mostly) Jews prior to World War II. They put them into concentration camps and more than six million Jews were killed. The Nazi Party were heartless, immoral, and inhumane people who treated the Jews like animals. They thought that the Jews were the reason for the failing economy of Germany. The Nazi party believed they were doing the right thing to annihilate the race of Jews, but no one ever has an excuse to torture people who have done nothing wrong; Jews were experimented on, enslaved, brutalized, and killed; no one should ever go through something like the Jews have during the Holocaust.