Imagine a life without talking to your friends, and having to wake up early in the morning from a hard, scratchy, straw filled mattress and eating nothing but bread and soup everyday! Well that is what many innocent people had to go through in the concentration camps during World War II but that wasn’t all! For instance every day the innocent prisoners had to wake up at 4:00 am and head to the cafeteria for the breakfast which was nothing but bread and if they were lucky they could have gross coffee that had no sugar. But the kapo or the prisoner functionary will sometimes throw the bread in the mud or will push you while you are being served your coffee, and if they spilled or didn’t eat whatever they were given they would be punished for wasting the food. …show more content…
Also if any of the prisoners had died overnight they still have to be there for roll call. They had to stand in the long hours of roll call even if it was freezing cold or extremely hot which causes many to even die during the roll call. The prisoners have to wear scratchy, dirty, striped uniforms which did not protect them from the cold harsh weather at all. After the long miserable roll call they would head off to work, they might’ve been lucky and receive a shovel or a pickaxe. Otherwise they would have to work with their hands… this may mean death because it will be hard to work as fast as the guards request. The day will be long, 12-14 hours of work and it is not easy work and they couldn’t slow down or they would be punished. Afterwards there is a whistle for lunch break and lunch then the evening roll call, which is the longest being 10 hours long and it is when the SS chooses who will be put in for the punishments and the hangings. Sometimes after a hanging all of the prisoners will have to march by the gallows to look at the hanged prisoners as a
The problem with prison camps in North Korea back in the past were totally inhumane. “Prison tended to be a place where people were held before their trail or while awaiting punishment. It was very rarely used as a punishment in its own right. Men and women, boys and girls, debtors and murderers were all held together in local prisons” (History of Prison System). Basically, prisoners were punished equally, they all suffer with the same system of conditions, which was not fair for other prisoners in the sense of the judgment toward them. Prisons were dreadful dangerous for children in the fact that they were put into local jails with dangerous prisoners. Conditions in prisons were mostly one of many punishment toward prisoners, among other things.
was made of saw dust and flour, they were made to do excruciating work, and they
They obey this unspoken rule because it is the only way they themselves stay alive and earn a meal in their stomachs. In a conversation between Tadek and his fellow mates he comments “They can’t run out of people, or we’ll starve to death in this blasted camp. All of us live on what they bring” (Borowski 31). The prisoners live and survive on the numerous victims that are brought in for execution on a daily basis. In addition, the prisoners feel that the least the victims deserve is a last hope until they face their own deaths, it is said to be “the only permissible form of charity” (37). This was a tactic in the Nazis overall strategy to achieve their genocidal goals. The author uses narration to explain to the reader that since the victims did not meet the standards of the Nazi community, the “Final solution” was to get rid of them.
Some prisoners in the picture look tremendously poor and thin, however, others look plumper. There was normally around 20 rail cars that would come at a time to receive the prisoners for deportation or transfers. Each car held a minimum of 70 people and maximum of 80 at a time. The inside of the rail car contained four walls, a peep hole per car, and a bucket in the corner for somebody to dispose bodily fluids into, and the odor of each perspiring, decaying, body’s. The rail cars were dense wood, there was no getting out once inside. Each SS officer would make sure the cars were filled to the maximum number possible, push the door closed, not considering that every foot, hand, leg and arm was inside. Once the door, shut it was locked from the outside with a rock-solid iron bar. Prisoners inside the rail car knew nothing about where they were going until arriving, they were not told where they were led to. The ride in the rail car was an unsafe extensive, loud, jarring, and uncomfortably crammed. Once exiting the rail car they would get each prisoner lined up for a roll call. Although, once the officers were finished doing what they needed the prisoners would go on about their irregular
Nazis often held people prisoners until their families could pay a ransom to get them out. Inside the camp, people lived in long wooden huts that each housed 270 men, there were five rooms inside each holding 54 people. Every aspect of a prisoner's life was controlled by Dachau sergeants.The prisoners would do 12 hours of harsh work, overworking combined with poor nutrition made a prisoner fall ill and malnourished. SS guards (trained by Theodor Eicke) were taught to show no sympathy for the prisoners and to treat them as mortal enemies in military training (History
Take a step back in the past of the worst.A time long ago that we will never forget of how many people died.The horror and the awful of death.Most of the constationtration camps were located out of Germany. They were more than 40,000camps that stretched across Europe from the French-spanish border into the conquered Soviet territories.In the article www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/daily-life-in-the-concentration-camps called Daily Life in the Conectiontration camp.It said…. “but individuals were arrested and imprisoned for a variety of reasons, including ethnicity and political affiliation”.
An estimated 50 to 60 million people died in result of the Holocaust, about 70 percent were in the concentration camps. They died from a variety of causes, including being gunned down, diseases, starvation,gas chambers and exposure to chemical toxins. The concentration camps were the number one contributor to the deaths of these innocent people. It is referred to as a camp because people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. The one who enforced the camp were called the SS short for Schutzstaffel. The SS was formed originally within the German Nazi party as a bodyguard for Adolf Hitler. The SS would help in separating the families, monitor the camps, and kill when needed. The prisoners daily routines started with waking up early in the morning and had a bunk roll call. The roll call was twice a day standing in a long line of 2,000 people standing there for hours. You could not move or talk, and you would have to stand there in all conditions of weather. Then you would go eat a meagre ration of watery soup, a piece of bread and some imitation coffee, and the day would officially start with work details. Each day came with the same fear of not knowing if it will be your last day or not. It was hard keeping good spirits up when it might be your last
Imagine being taken from your home, rushed away from your family, and stripped from everything you once knew. This is what the prisoners in the concentration camps were faced to handle. The concentration camps in Germany, created by Hitler, consisted of strict rules, and the Nazis had no regard or care for the prisoners trapped there.
There were thousands and thousands of people being brought into the concentration camps. There had to be a way for them to keep everything organized. The people in command would register every single Jew before they were put to work or sent to the buildings. After the prisoners were unloaded from the truck or train, they were stripped of their personal belongings and clothes, and then they were given a new uniform. Most of the time they were also shaved. The prisoners were then taken to be inscribed with their number stamp and were also demanded to stand still while taking their picture from three sides (Camp System). That was the painless part. Now came the beatings, demands, torture, and starvation.
As I previously stated, the jewish community was hit the hardest by all of this. The Germans blamed the first world war on the jewish people. Therefore, to enact their revenge, they decided to use “concentration camps” (In reality, they were extermination camps). As shown in a holocaust image, everyone inside the camps were extremely malnourished and at a loss for sleep. In said picture, someone by the name of Elie Wiesel is shown cramped up in a bunk bed with two other people. He would later go on to win
Next, your probably wondering how the German population was able to go on in life and think these concentration camps were a happy ray of sunshine. It was almost like the regular German population had no clue the effects of the holocaust. It was all propaganda. The nazis were cleaver with how they displayed the concentration camps. They pre-trade how the camp had all the benefits that the normal society had. They completely convinced the German population that everything was
The halls were windowless, but outside I could hear more trucks pulling up and unloading draftees. The guards were emotionless, they did this every
The prisoners are monitored by the SS and kapos, who constantly yell orders at the prisoners. While prisoners are walking to work, they might have to march to the beat of the music played by the camp orchestra or possibly be forced to sing. Once prisoners reach the gate to leave the camp more guards are waiting for their turn to beat and insult the prisoners. Prisoners are lucky if they are given a shovel or pickaxe because most must use their hands to do the required work. Those who have to use their hands are at risk of being killed because they cannot work as fast as the guards wish (Chatel, Vincent). The day consists of 12-14 hours of hard, and most of the time, useless work. This work includes moving cumbersome sandbags, digging out and carrying massive stones, and digging trenches or a tunnel. Some may work in factories which usually results in death for the worker. All work must be done as fast as possible while the worker is being beaten or insulted. Guards are allowed to abuse prisoners until death if they believe the prisoner or prisoners are not working quick enough. If a prisoner stops or slows down it is viewed as sabotage and means immediate death. Prisoners receive a short break for a meager lunch and then get right back to work. The work after lunch always seems more difficult because prisoners are still hungry and feel as if they are losing strength (Chatel, Vincent). A prisoner is beaten
Living in a concentration camp for over a year until it was liberated was so difficult. The sixty-five lucky survivors fought through hard work, starvation as well as getting beaten, in some cases to almost death. I have seen so many people enter both of these camps but only a select few come and go. The survivors of these camps are here now to tell their stories. No one deserved the treatment that many Jewish people had. Families were separated, so many lives lost, and many people lost everything that they ever had. The food was limited and their daily life consisted of work. No breaks and if you were not working hard enough or fast enough you would be killed. I have been sitting in this camp, even to this day. Everywhere that you look, you
I was aware that the Jewish holidays were approaching and it required them to fast. The rations that were given to the prisoners were hardly enough to