Oskar Schindler's Death Camps During The Holocaust

He also wrote the memoir to help people see that Oscar Schindler was a hero for the Jews and that he saved so many lives, including the lives of Leon and his family. They, without a doubt, would not be here today without Schindler’s help, and the author didn’t want people to think of Schindler as a bad guy just because he was a Nazi. The tone that the author uses throughout the memoir is one of pain and suffering, but also gratefulness in spite of all of the torture. He looks back on his experience, and believes that he is lucky because he and his family survived when millions of others weren’t so lucky. This is very admirable because if most people had gone through this, they would feel nothing but self-pity. This memoir was a fantastic read, that gives readers great insight into the world of the Holocaust, and it vividly describes the pain that the Jewish people went through for years. The book gives readers a new appreciation for

Six million Jewish residents of Eastern Europe were exterminated during the Holocaust of the 1940’s. Families were taken out of their homes and put into ghettos, which were large prison type establishments that housed dozens of people in one small apartment. They were then separated from their families, "men to the left and women to the right", and were placed in concentration camps, where most of them were killed and cremated. In 1993, Steven Spielberg directed a film, Schindler’s List, which depicted the life of one man who risked his life and money to save the few Jewish families he could.

In December 1939, as the German-occupied Poland was being torn up by the events of the Holocaust, Schindler took his first steps in becoming a Holocaust hero. “If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car,” he said later of his wartime actions, “wouldn't you help him?”(“Oskar Schindler,” Jewish Virtual Library).

During the Nazi Holocaust, multiple working and death camps were created to hold the captured Jews. While the Jews lived in this camp, they were tortured, mistreated, worked to death and eventually were put to death by either execution by firearm or were put into a death camp which exterminated the Jews using poison gas. The Nazi Party had developed many death camps in the central european area including the 6 death camps of Poland; Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, and Majdanek.

The films “Schindler’s List” and “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” are both set in the Holocaust. Schindler was a man of great wealth, and was also a German. He was an executive, and like most businesspersons, he wanted to make more money. Therefore, he implored the help of someone to run the numbers, and keep track of his money. The man that he hired was a Jew by the name of Itzhak Stern. Schindler hired this man because

<br>The Holocaust is the most horrifying crime against humanity of all times. "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." One of his main methods of "doing away" with these "undesirables" was through the use of concentration camps. "In January 1941, in a meeting with his top officials, the 'final solution' was decided". The Jewish population was to be eliminated. In this paper I will discuss concentration camps with a detailed description of the worst one prior to World War II, Buchenwald.

To begin with, the first ever concentration camp out of many was Dachau, it opened March 20, 1933 (Holocaust Facts). The Nazis built six camps: Chelmo, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, and lastly Majdanek (Holocaust Facts). Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp and extermination camp built. Extermination camps were meant for killing large groups of people quickly and smoothly (Holocaust Facts). Each one of the camps killed at least 60,000-80,000 people and much more (Extermination Camps).

Oskar Schindler is considered an amazing hero of the Holocaust and is noteworthy because he rescued a lot of Jews, changed his Nazi beliefs, and was recognized by the state of Israel as one of the “Righteous Among the Nation.” He was a German industrialist who had such a huge impact on modern society, he protected the jews from the wrath of the Nazi Party and preserved generation of Jewish families.

During World War 2 millions of people lost their lives fighting in the war, nazi concentration camps, or innocent civilians caught in the crossfire. At the height of the Nazi’s power there were over 22 main concentration camps and 1200 affiliate camps. The first camp was created in 1933 and its main purpose was to house criminals, gypsies, and jews. Some camps were made for the sole purpose of killing large amounts of people quickly. Chelmno was the first death camp established in Poland and was used only to kill the jew of the Lodz ghetto. Jews from the ghetto were taken to the camp where they were stripped of all clothing and belongings. Once they were stripped they were placed in the back of a van where a soldier would gas them. Over 300,000 jews were killed in the four year span that the camp was open. Only three jew were able to

To get rid of the bodies the staff killed in the gas chambers, the Nazis used crematories to burn them (The Holocaust). At the Dachau concentration camp, the Nazis stuffed twenty-eight railway cars with dead bodies to limit the amount of evidence the Allies could use against them in court. In the country of Romania, the citizens killed the Jewish people themselves. The Jewish people were desperate for help. They had few resources, few allies, impossible choices, and few people came to their rescue. In Denmark, Jews were protected by the Danish and sent to Sweden for more protection. People like Oskar Schindler came to the Jews aid. Oskar protected his Jewish employees, by providing places to hide, food, and shelter. The Allies made no military

There were many concentration camps throughout Germany during the Holocaust. The largest and most known camp was Auschwitz. Auschwitz executed 1.1 million Jews, Roma, Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war. Other concentration camps include Clemo, Sobibor, Belzec, and Treblinka. A famously known Jewish girl, Anne Frank, perished at the camp Bergan a few weeks before liberation from disease

At the entrance to each death camp, there was a selection process. All pregnant women, young children, disabled and sick people, and the elderly were all immediately murdered (Lehnardt). Children were usually targeted because Hitler didn’t want them to grow up and raise a Jewish family; his end goal was to completely terminate the Jewish population (Lehnardt). Concentration camps were when people were held prisoner without actually being presented in front of a judge; they were individuals forced into captivity. The first concentration camps in Germany were made to stop any rejection of the Nazis’ beliefs. The Nazis wanted to have complete power and lead the world, so if people rejected them, it would be hard for the Nazis to complete their goal. The extermination camps was where the gas chambers were used. Many Jewish people were exterminated at these

Steven Spielberg had planned to produce a movie about the Holocaust for around ten years before he actually became involved in directing Schindler’s List (Perlez, 1993). Much of the movie was filmed in Kraków, Poland, which was the location of Schindler’s factory. Liam Neeson stars as Oskar Schindler, and Ralph Fiennes stars as Amon Göth. The plot takes place in Nazi Germany between 1941-1945. The main character is Oskar Schindler, who originally supports the Nazi party but eventually decides to protect the Jews from the atrocious acts committed by the Nazis. Specific examples from the movie of how it is accurate include the ending scene where the Schindler Jews are liberated. In this scene, every Schindler Jew that was alive is present. In addition to this appearance, Schindler’s List portrays the brutality of the acts that were committed at the concentration camps. In one scene, a group of naked women are herded into a shower room that is actually a gas chamber in disguise. Despite the fact that the emotional response of the women is inaccurate as the women would not have known that the shower room was a gas chamber, the scene illustrates the inhumane method that the Nazis used to annihilate the Jews in many of the concentration camps, specifically Auschwitz (Lobet, 1994). The film was also shot in many of the same locations where the actual events occurred. For

During the second world war, over eighteen million people were killed in concentration camps and in the euthanasia program alone. Of these eighteen million, roughly six million were Jewish. This number was so large, due to the euthanasia program and the many concentration camps located around Nazi controlled Germany. The euthanasia program in Nazi Germany was the beginning idea of the concentration camps.

[War] brings out the worst in people. Never the good, always the bad. Even in the midst the devastation of a national genocide, where one race turned against another in hate, good people existed and worked to counteract the hate through love and compassion. Oskar Schindler was one of these people. World War II provided him the means to become a very wealthy and powerful man, yet he did not exploit the Jews like many other businessmen during his time. He used his money and power to save thousands. Much can be learned from what happened during the holocaust and what Schindler did to save thousands of Jews.