Ghettos During 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.

In the Memoir Night. Elie Wiesel is mentally and physically dehumanized. Propaganda started to occur and people thought the nazis would kill them. Elie thought this was not Veritable. But The Humane/ optimist Jewish people that are kindly greeted by the Hungarians then are not allowed in the Synagogue to pray, then forced out of their homes, because the Nazis are prejudice and anti semitism against the Jews.

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 main condition during the Holocaust was lice and fleas. This was because so many people were in such a small area, a room that could only fit one hundred, would be packed with almost one thousand people, the lice and fleas were everywhere because of this. Men would get their heads shaved, and woman would get their hair cut really short, or sometimes even shaved all the way off like men, they did this in order to try stop the spreading of lice. In the barracks the lice and fleas were spreaded the worst. The bed would move in the straw beds because they were so infested with the bugs. Also men and womens clothes were infested with the bugs badly because they could not wash their clothing, so the lice and fleas

The holocaust was a major tragedy that caused the death of millions of people. The jews were forced to work in concentration camps until they were starved or worked to death. The jews also endured a constant fear of being killed by being burned or gassed.The whole thing was orchestrated by a large group of germans called nazis and their leader Hitler. About 6 million of which were innocent jews.

In the mid 1930s heading into the the mid 1940s, The Nazis created harsh living conditions for Jews living in Europe. The Nazis, lead by Adolf Hitler, were an right wing group that took control of Germany and eventually expanded to the other European countries around them including Poland and Austria. Using the Nuremberg laws in 1935, the Nazis began removing Jewish people from everyday society. Four years later in 1939, Jews were forced to live in Ghettos that were overcrowded and barely maintained. Not long after in 1945, The “final solution” was implemented. Innocent Jewish men, women and children were shipped in train cars to Concentration camps. The conditions in these train cars were brutal. Passengers would go days without water, food

Have you ever been in a room so crowded you thought you might implode? Or been so sick you questioned if you were still alive? How about so hungry you felt as though you would shrivel up and simply cease to exist? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then you may almost be able to imagine what life was like in the Jewish ghettos. There were ghettos before the Holocaust, the first being in Venice in the 16th century, there are ghettos today, and there will be ghettos in the future, but the Jewish ghettos of the Holocaust are by far the most prominent.

During the Holocaust, the living conditions for the Jewish population were horrifying and unthought of. The lack of sanitary facilities meant they had to remove dirt and pests from clothing by waiting in a line that took up most of the day. The barracks that the prisoners slept in was in terrible conditions and the rooms were damp with leaky roofs (“Auschwitz…”). The health and how the jewish lived was no concern of the Nazi soldiers.

(Holocaust Ppt.43) Women were forced to strip, and herded into gas chambers. The chambers were then sealed completely and about ten minutes later, about forty women were dead. (Holocaust document,3) The living conditions in Concentration Camps were unsanitary, cold, and illnesses and diseases led to deaths frequently. (Holocaust Ppt.44) Jews were treated horribly by the Nazis in Concentration Camps and were often starved to

During the Holocaust Jews were often forced from concentration camp to concentration camp where they would only get a ration of bread and soup each day and were often whipped or even killed for doing something wrong or not being strong enough to work. They were also required, during the year of 1942, to wear badges so they can easily be recognized by the Nazis and other non-Jews. The Nazis treated Jews like animals causing them to lose faith in god.

During the holocaust, the Nazis dehumanized the Jews. The capricious, or impulsive, Nazi soldiers did many horrendous things to innocent Jewish people. They treated them as if they were animals rather than human beings. Personal identities were nonexistent for them. Jews were seen as invalid and insignificant.

Once the Jews got to the camp, the Nazis took their belongings and gave them very thin clothing. They were separated into groups based on strengths and who could work. The babies and handicapped were immediately killed. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke.

The Holocaust was a time when Jews were sent to concentration camps and force to work. There were some people who had hope to live and had survived till the very end but there were people who lost hope and died. Lodz ghetto was a laboring camp the had both Jews and Non-Jews. Non-Jews suffered in the Holocaust alongside those of Jewish faith because they were sent to ghettos like the Lodz Ghetto.

Inmates resembled skeletons and were so weak they were unable to move. The smell of burning bodies was ever present and piles of corpses were scattered around the camp. However, you could be “saved” from the crematoria to be used as test subjects to cruel experimentation and used as lab rats for any experiment the scientists wanted to conduct. Later in the war, extermination camps were built. These were specialized for the mass murder of Jews using Zyklon B to ensure a painful, long, and torturous death. The bodies would then be thrown into the fire and all clothes, teeth, and shoes would be sent to pursue the German war front. At max efficiency, 20,000 people would be killed in the gas chambers a day. As the red Army approached near to liberate the Jews in concentration and extermination camps, SS officers sent prisoners on a death march across hundreds of miles, where they ran with no food or water, no matter the weather, until they reached the closest camp. SS officers proceeded to blow up the camps to hide the genocide from the

They had horrible living conditions in the barracks, with straw beds and they were overcrowded. Many people died and suffered from sickness and starvation. There were many diseases at the concentration camps. The Jews were harshly abused and were killed in horrible ways such as, gas chambers, shooting, poison, and from working too much and being too tired and weak. Two-thirds of the people living in Europe were killed by the Nazis. There were many Jews, but there were Gypsies, Polish people, Russians, homosexuals, disabled people, Jehovah's witnesses, and more too. Hitler only wanted blue eyed, blonde hair