Hiding Vs. Jews In Concentration Camps

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

The Nazis kill and Harangue the prisoners causing this to make them depressed. The Jews are fed from cauldron that is somewhat filled with food. So the Jews have to ration their food. Prisoners would traffic with officers to buy food. The Jews who barely got fed where emaciated Then there are Hangings that are from gallowls.

In the camps, prisoners had to endure beatings with whips with iron balls attached, incarceration, electric shocks, and public hangings which terrorized the Jews (Goldhagen 297).

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.

Most of these camps were used for the elimination of the Jews. There were also camps that were mainly just for torture purposes and the Jews had to work until death. The Jews that were in these camps were also put into striped uniforms and had limited food like one piece of bread a day, these were awful living conditions.

During the Holocaust many Jews were hidden in fear. Force to live together and make a living. There was no discrimination of age of Jews. Jews old and young alike were persecuted. Like the three teens named Margot Frank, Anne Frank, and Peter Van Daan. These teens have

There were two types of hidden children: the children that didn’t look like the stereotypical Jew, and were hidden in plain sight, in an orphanage or maybe with a family who pretended the child was an orphaned family member. Then there were the ones that were truly hidden, such as in an abandoned building, a hidden room, or- as Lola

During the Holocaust, when Jews were taking masse to concentration camps, the sole focus within the camps was the utility of members. Healthy Jews were to be used routinely for labor. Sickly ones were far more likely to be executed on the spot. Jews were hanged in the center of the camp and left there for days. Others including their family members and lifelong friends would be forced to walk past their bodies again and again. During this tragic time many

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

The Holocaust is a very large topic with many subtopics within, which many people have never heard of. One in particular is the Hidden Children of the Holocaust. Like a majority of individuals, I never heard of this topic before, until I started my inquiry work. Hiding children during the holocaust was an effort to save thousands of children’s lives. The children were hidden in different ways, either with false identities, underground, and with or without their parents. The children with false identities were allowed to participate in everyday life activities, like attend school and socialize with children their age, which in the long run this lead to less emotional and mental issues. However, the children that were hidden and not allowed to leave their hiding spots often faced boredom, pain, and torment. Some children were capable of being hid with their parents while other children were not. Depending on the situation the child was in, depends on the effects it had on the child during this time. In this paper, I will be discussing works by two scholars, Natalia Aleksiun’s Gender and Daily Lives of Jews in Hiding in Eastern Galicia and Judy Mitchell’s Children of the Holocaust. Aleksiun’s article talks about the daily lives of Jews in hiding and also about how they prepared their hideouts. Aleksiun’s article mainly focuses on children that were hidden with their families. In Mitchell’s article, he focuses on the hidden children and gives examples/survivor stories on what it

Eventually Jews and other ‘undesirables’ were sent to death camps, while others went to forced labour camps and used as slaves to produce materials for weapons in war, and a range of goods, such as shoes, clothes and good. These death camps

Many atrocities occurred during the holocaust, especially in concentration camps. Victims of the holocaust were mostly Jewish. There were also political prisoners, such as Communists and Socialists, common criminals, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals and disabled or medically ill people. Prisoners in concentration camps had to wear specific coloured triangles on their clothes so that the guards and officers of the camps could easily identify each prisoner’s background and pit the different groups against each other. Most camps used prisoners for forced labour which led to many people dying. The prisoner’s food rations didn’t let them survive for very long and anyone who resisted an order from a guard was shot on the spot. Many

There used to be places that were known for torture, forced labor, and murder. People were dragged out of their own homes to be brought there. These places were called concentration camps. They were the largest Nazi killing centers and they took the lives of over a million Jews. The camps are an important part of history that we will never forget.

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

Moreover, Hitler punished the Jews cruel and unusually. The Nazis attacked the Jews on the streets and made them work, forcing the Jews to use their sacred, religious clothes to clean. If the Jews did not oblige to the officers orders, they were beaten and sometimes killed (Source A Page 81). Periodically, Jews were forcibly taken to concentration camps, dingy and unstable environments. Forced to work with no wages, and a scarce amount of food, the Jews were eventually killed in gas chambers. The Nazis locked the Jews in sealed rooms and release poisonous gas, such as carbon monoxide (Source B Page 247). According to the book entitled, Adolf Hitler, “Prisoners were beaten for the slightest offense or placed in solitary confinement cells so