Letter To Mother: Bergen-Belsen Holocaust

Over one million Jewish children died during the Holocaust. They were ripped out of their homes and taken away from their families, and stripped of their childhoods. Innocent lives were caught in a war that they were not able to stop. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he promised Germany that he would improve life their by getting rid of the one race that caused the problems, the Jews. Jews, including Jewish children, were sent to concentration camps, inspected, and if approved, were sent to work. All others would have been sent to be killed. Being sent to work did not ensure survival, children would be given very little food and water, and beaten severely, which caused their death. None of the children of the Holocaust will ever

The Jewish Concentration camps had substandard living conditions compared to the Japanese Internment camps, “Then Jack would snap back to reality, his stomach turning inside out from hunger, his body infested with lice, men around him dying from hunger, disease and sorrow” (Warren 72). This shows the reader the Jews

The Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp could be both a good, and bad place to be. The camp had mainly held Jewish people, and other political prisoners. Many prisoners would come from other camps, but few would go, alive that is.

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.

“The camp looked as though it had been through an epidemic: empty and dead” (47); even when there is a break in between the horror and pain of working for Nazis in concentration camps and suffering from hunger, it is dead, empty and inhuman; this meaningful passage about the complete and utter truth of concentration camps comes from a memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel. Vocabulary in this passage, is nothing short of exemplary, the words completely compliment the message being shared in this quote. Elie Wiesel describes the atrocious Buna camp as if it were through an epidemic, an outbreak, rendering people empty and dead due to starvation, lack of sleep, and over exertion. This paints a complete and thorough visual of how he viewed concentration

The Holocaust was a very traumatic event in history. Every year in school from about middle school onward students learn specifically about Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party’s cruel treatment of the Jewish culture and people during World War II. The same general knowledge is given to us from middle school up until the ending our high school history careers. We are taught to believe that Adolf Hitler was a corrupt man, who sought control of Germany in the 1930’s. Even though we are given background information on this event, and there are things being told to us, no one knows what actually occurred during this time, except those who lived through it. In the book Night published by Elie Wiesel, he explains the things that happened to his family and the people in his community named Sighet before, during, and after the Holocaust. There is more than what meets the eye to this occurrence. No one sees the bigger picture when it comes to this event because of the fact that such a tragedy occurred in the first place. Although the Holocaust was a very unfortunate event, the Holocaust did benefit the United States in a plethora of different ways. Without the Holocaust, World War II would have never happened, and World War II brought countless positives attributes to America. A myriad of things came out of World War II. For example, women earned the right to attain jobs because of the war. Also, America became a global power due to the fact that the Allies (United States, Britain,

Father are you out there, This is your daughter Erika Neumen I survived the holocaust. The last time I saw you were in the ghettos. I miss you dearly and can't stop thinking about you.

Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps were the worst of The Holocaust. What happened at the camps is unimaginable and responsible for a large percentage of deaths that took place during The Holocaust. What started out as a death camp to persecute Poles, grew into the largest camp persecuting Jews. The gas chambers are what brought the large population of Jews to the camps in the first place and were the main strategy of the ‘Final Solution.’ Overall, Auschwitz-Birkenau made a huge impact in the history of The Holocaust and if it was never constructed, who knows what the history of The Holocaust would

The children in the Holocaust were more significant than most would think, because they are just children right? Well I disagree, I have been doing research about the children of the Holocaust and people should know a little about what happened to them… The Nazis occupied Europe and one of the first things they did was gather up all the kids they could find. Some were luckily taken away from where the Nazis were looking for the children , and some were hidden because that’s how they would keep the Jewish population alive. They were forced to work in concentration camps or were murdered, and not all of them were even Jewish, some were gypsies, mentally or physically ill German children (Yes,the Nazis DID kill their own German blood!), and Polish

The holocaust started in January 1933 when Hitler came to power. The word “Holocaust” in Greek means “whole burnt”. During the holocaust Nazi’s would force Jews into ghettos and denied them their basic needs of survival. Approximate-ly 1.1 million children died during this time. Children were targeted and murdered by the Nazi’s. If the children lived through this time, they would grow up without any parents because they were dead. The most penetrating experience took place in September 1941 outside of Kiev, Ukraine. There were 33,000 Jews killed in two days. Between 1933-1945 more than 11 million people were dead, and about six million of them were Jews.

Au Ngo Ms. Park English 2P, P4 17 Apr. 2015 The Worst Nightmare With a belief that the Germans were superior to all other people, Hitler started a persecution which mainly targeted the Jews. Hitler then began the Kristallnacht in order to reduce the number of the Jewish population of the world. In “Children of the Holocaust,” Stephanie Fitzgerald said, “The November pogrom came to be known as the Kristallnacht- meaning “the night of broken glass”- because the streets were littered with shattered windows from the Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues that has been destroyed” (15).

Jews are constantly being punished in these concentration camps, whether not being present during roll-call to the harsh labor and the lack of nutrition provided. The soldiers take roll call very seriously, Abel emphasizes that judgement will be passed onto the folks lined up for those who disrupt roll call or can’t stand still for a duration of the time. Folks in these concentration camps are forced to work for long periods of time in a day. “whoever has a pair of wooden soles tied to his feet with a leather strap is rich” (13). Many Jews are without shoes and this can cause serious infections. Starvation is a major problem for the people in the camp since the German soldiers limit the amount of sustenance. Digestion is a major problem for

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

Have you ever had a family member murdered? You probably felt extremely sad and depressed, maybe even mad. Well imagine 6 million murders. This is what we call the Holocaust. One of the first concentration camps was established in Germany. It was soon after Hitler became chancellor in 1933. After a couple weeks of Nazi’s forming into power, the SS(Protection Squad), elite guards, the police, and civilian authorities organized multiple concentration(detention) camps to follow Nazi Policy. There soon were camps all over the land of Germany. Bigger cities had bigger camps, smaller cities had smaller camps. They were all still camps, though. SS units wore skull and bones symbols on their caps to identify. Inside camps were concrete boxes, gas chambers, side by side, deadly. People disposed in each. Packed into a box, naked, rubbing with other naked people. Stepping in the mud barefoot constantly. Eating bread constantly and not very often. Dead corpse’s just lying around, being picked up as food is being handed out at the same exact time. Your toilet was also your bowl to eat out of, and to clean the feces off of it, you used your urine. Your body was constantly dirty. And then the thought of depression? It was just terrible inside these camps.

I was to be deported to a concentration camp known as Bergen-Belsen. It was dark out so the surgery must have taken a long time. They had told me to stay with this group of people who I assumed were going to the same camp as me. I could tell that nothing good was happening I was headed straight toward a camp surrounded by a tall curved barbed wire fence. I was crammed next to tons of others. I had heard about these camps but nothing much real good had come out of it. Many people had been saying that if you were to be taken to the camps that you life was going to be very hard. A couple of them had said that they had saw smoke coming out of a tall tower but I couldn’t see any tower since it was so dark. I was almost to the entrance when I was grabbed hard on the arm. I wasn’t sure who it was, I was pulled out from the crowd and taken into the forest. Lucky I was taken by my step father. He had followed the crowd and kept eye on me the entire time, he had waited until the right moment and then grabbed me from the crowd. He had saved me from the camp. We ran hoping that no one would catch us I tipped and we scraped by the fence as we passed by, but I didn’t care I got back up and just keep running with my father. My father had told me that something terrible was happening and that I should hid and stay hidden until I felt that it was safe to leave. He told me to hid in a garden shed and so I did. At first I thought that he was joking but never misjudge a father when he is screaming at you “hid where ever you can and stay hidden!” It was dark and I was scared my father had left me in this shed. I was tired and aching all over, not knowing it I fell asleep not much long after my father had left me in this small garden