Majdanek Concentration Camp

Auschwitz was one of the largest and first concentration camp during WW2 and next to Auschwitz were two other death camps that were named Auschwitz ll and lll. At Auschwitz, there was a total of 8 gas chambers and 4 of them can hold up to 2,000 prisoners (Mostly Jews) at a time. There were 11 million people murdered in the Holocaust and it estimated that 6 million Jews were killed and one in six was killed at Auschwitz.

World War II was a terrible, chaotic war with many deaths. Innocent people were killed, only because they were a different race. During World War II, the Germans/Nazis absolutely hated the Jews for no good reason. There were prisons built to torture and use Jews for forced labor. Those prisons were called concentration camps. In World War II, three of these concentration camps were same of the largest ones created and were called the Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and the Dachau. The Auschwitz had three main camps and was located 37 miles of Krakow, the Buchenwald was constructed in 1937 about five miles northwest of Weimar, and the Dachau was one of the first camps created and has an incident that leads to many deaths.

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.

Auschwitz concentration camp, also known as Auschwitz- Birkenau, was Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp (Berenbaum, Auschwitz). The camp was created because Hitler became “convinced that his “Jewish problem” would be solved only with the elimination of every Jew in his domain, along with artists, educators, Gypsies, communists, homosexuals, the mentally and physically handicapped and others deemed unfit for survival in Nazi Germany” (Auschwitz, History.com). Auschwitz was located in southern Poland near the industrial town of Oswiecim (Berenbaum, Auschwitz). Hitler’s team was known as the Secret Service (SS), which included soldiers who patrolled the streets and the men who ran the camps (Uwe Boll, Auschwitz). Auschwitz consisted of

Birkenau). That’s enough to send chills down anyone's spine. The death camps of WWII were an atrocity to all human beings, regardless of race, religion, and culture. Innocent fellow human beings, neighbors, friends, coworkers, and entire families were extinguished. Approximately 11 million people were killed, 1.1 million of those were under the age of 18…

The Holocaust was a systematic murder of six million Jews during the war. Auschwitz was the largest death camp in the Holocaust. The camp was opened in 1940 as a prison, the camp was opened for Polish criminals and Prisoners of War. The Holocaust was a terrible tragedy; there were twelve million people murdered all together in the Holocaust, but at the notorious camp called Auschwitz two million people were murdered

The second worst concentration camp in WWII Treblinka. “Nazi occupied General Government of Poland and the zone was occupied by the Russians from September 1939 until the German invasion of Russia in June 1941”. Over 800,000 Jewish people killed here, Plus 850,000 men, women, and children murdered here so about 1,650,000 people murdered. (“Samuel Willenberg, the last of only 67 survivors of the Treblinka extermination camp.” )

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The camp was expected to hold between 25,000 and 50,000Jews/prisoners.On December 1941, a new plan was being planned for Majdanek to hold up to 150,000 Jews.When commandant Karl Koch planned it on March 23.Majdanek men were forced to work by building railroad tracks and destroying hills so more bunkers can be build.Women used for pleasuring Nazis and making suits and clothes for them and

In the month of March 1933, one of the first camps, Dachau, was opened. Dachau was a concentration camp, or a prison camp maintained by the Third Reich, [the name for Germany when the government was controlled by Adolf Hitler]. Aside these concentration camps was two other types of camps; labor camps, and death camps. A main concentration camp was Theresienstadt. Theresienstadt was located in what is now known as the Czech Republic. More than 150,000 were kept there for months until being sent to their deaths in Treblinka and Auschwitz death camps. The people in

During World War II, Hitler created many different death camps and transit camps. One transit camp in particular is Theresienstadt. It is located near Prague, Czechoslovakia and its alternate name is Terezin. Theresienstadt was a transit camp that was supposed to be a “model” camp to do away with the accusations of murder of the Jewish people. Theresienstadt had a movie made about it even though its conditions were terrible, it had its own form of “government”, and it was a camp where children left their art and poems before their death.

I chose the concentration camp Treblinka, it was established in November of 1941. With the support of the SS and Police Leader for District Warsaw in “Generalgouvernement”, SS and police authorities established a forced-labor camp for Jews (Treblinka). Later on it became Treblinka I. In addition to it being a labor camp, it also served as a “Labor Education Camp” for non-Jewish Poles, who the Germans believed to have violated labor discipline. Jewish and Polish prisoners were put into separate compounds of the camp, and deployed at forced labor. The killing center known as Treblinka II was completed in July of 1942, about a mile from the Treblinka I, and a rail spur was added that led from Treblinka I to Treblinka II. The Treblinka camp

One year after the camp had begun it soon built a reputation for torture and death (Auschwitz-Birkenau- “The). Auschwitz was made for three main reasons: confine both real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime, provide people for labor in construction-related enterprises, and serve a place to kill people whose life was determined by the Schutzstaffel, also known as the SS (Holocaust). A man named Adolf Hitler was determined to kill everyone who he believed were not fit for survival in Nazi Germany. In order to meet his beliefs, he turned the concentration camps into places solely for killing Jews as a “final solution”; he called the camps death camps

Mauthausen- Established August 8, 1938, killed about 150,000 people who varied widely, including Jews, Roma, criminals, and other people who didn’t fit a particular standard. The camp was located in Austria and meant to be a center for slave labor, where prisoners were to work for a stone quarry. Most of the people who died in Mauthausen died from being overworked or from exposure, as they were kept out in open fields due to overcrowding. The work day lasted from four in the morning until seven at night, and the prisoners were divided into two groups: one mined the granite, and the others carried the large slabs up 186 steep steps to the top of the quarry. Prisoners were sometimes killed by being made to undress and then sprayed with water,

     The Holocaust is one of the most horrifying crimes against humanity. "Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme." (Bauer, 58) One of his main methods of exterminating these ‘undesirables' was through the use of concentration and death camps. In January of 1941, Adolf Hitler and his top officials decided to make their 'final solution' a reality. Their goal was to eliminate the Jews and the ‘unpure' from the entire population. Auschwitz was the largest