Ravens Bergeron Research Paper

Since the Nazi soldiers were male, they treated men and women prisoners in their camps with a significant amount of difference. Prisoners were forced to do pointless yet challenging labour for an indefinite time before they were sentenced to death. Upon arrival at the camps, Jews were divided into two different groups; one would group would live and the other would be sent to the gas chambers immediately. The labour intensive tasks proved to be quite brutal for women since they were not accustomed to such duties. Even pregnant women were not spared and many women miscarried because the hard labour had killed their unborn child. Those babies who were born were almost inevitably taken immediately and killed. There was no privacy in these camps and the women were continually being eyed by the lonely, watching soldiers. Some women were beaten or sexually harassed while in the camps and could do nothing to stop the horror. Their husbands, brothers and fathers were either dead or in a different part of the

The Buchenwald concentration camp opened on July 15, 1937. Women were not apart of the Buchenwald camp system until 1943 or early 1944. Most of early inmates at Buchenwald became political prisoners.Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps established within German borders. German SS officers and police sent almost

Those not sent to death camps were sent to something even more cruel: concentration camps. In the early days of the war, these camps were only used to house political prisoners of the war such as communists, previous criminals, prisoners of war, and extending even to tramps and beggars (“Concentration Camps” Gale, 127). In 1936, the concentration camp system extended greatly to include Jehovah’s witnesses, convicted prostitutes, Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals (“Concentration Camps” United States Holocaust Museum, par. 1). After 1936, the camps were built next to or near quarries or brickyards and factories where prisoners were forced to perform heavy labor until they were too weak to continue. (128). The program was known as “Vernichtung durch Arbeit”, or “Annihilation through Work” (par. 4). Upon arrival to the camps, lines were formed in front of SS medical officers who directed each prisoner to the left or the right. If you were directed to the right, then you were to live, but die a more drawn out than those who went left

At Auzwich Mengele did a number of expirements on twins. After the experiment was done most were murdered. Mengele worked to separate the ones who could work from the sick. The sick were killed along with girls and children. If they weren't killed they were sent to live in ghettos. A ghetto is a small building ment to house a lot of people and were usually crammed full. (Auzwich.dk)

Their jobs depended on their nationality, how fit they were, and how loyal they were to the Nazi soldiers. “Within the camps, the Nazis established a hierarchical identification system. Prisoners with a higher social status within the camps were often rewarded with more desirable work assignments such as administrative positions indoors. Some, such as the kapos (work supervisors) or camp elders held the power of life and death over other prisoners” (Daily Life in Concentration Camps). If prisoners weren’t in that type of classification, they were given harsher and more demanding tasks. For those who were in such demanding assignments, they had a higher mortality rate. The higher the death rate, the happier the SS soldiers were for not having to kill them themselves and just have the other prisoners take care of the dead

Most of the “camps and certain areas within concentration camps were designated specifically for female prisoners” (www.ushmm.org). Men during the holocausts who had businesses and rights were striped of all they had and were forced to hard labor. The men were forced to work until death, starvation was one leading cause of death in labor camps were men worked. Also diseases and disabilities also affected most men and how they live during the holocaust. Jewish men that were brought back form the infirmary were shown in pictures and a skeleton and looked as if the man had not eaten in a year and S.S soldiers considered them as fit to work. German citizens that helped Jews were also taken as prisoners and sent to camps until death. Anyone who survived through that living nightmare is a brave and strong person with having to see your family perish before your eyes and never seeing them again is a very tough thing to when you stay strong and never giving up until freedom. Most Jewish people that survived either had runaway and kept their identity secret for the German not to find out or survived by betraying their families to help the Germans. The Holocaust was a horrifying event that none would feel comfortable to talk about but by this topic we learn what happened to the life of Jewish men, women, and children and what their life was during the holocaust.

One of the most famous of these was the camp at Auschwitz. Auschwitz was nearly unparalleled in the horrendous living conditions for the prisoners there. The barracks were old stables generally made of bricks or wood with lots of holes in the walls letting in the freezing air.(Bennet) Although they were meant for approximately forty people, one barrack would house up to three hundred.(“Living Conditions”) When a person died in the barracks, the prisoners nearby stripped the bodies of everything including clothing and would move the bodies to the latrine.(Kor, 35) The treatment of the prisoners was so horrific that they took dramatic measures to survive, one woman even hid a baby under her dress for years.(Kor, 106) In addition to holding Jews in these conditions, the Nazis also did medical experiments on many

Josef Mengele had a very sick mind for the type of gruesome experiments that he performed on men, and women. Dr. Josef Mengele performed an experiment where he would test two things. The first thing the doctor would test is how long it would take for the body temperature to lower to death, and the second thing that they would test is how long it would take to resuscitate the frozen victim. The frozen victims would not wear their clothes that were provided to them by the camp, the victims were put out naked in sub-zero conditions. The frozen victim would also have water that is heated to a near blistering temperature forcefully irrigated into the stomach, bladder, and intestines. This experiment killed every person. That is two of the many types ways Dr. Josef Mengele experimented on men, and women. Another way the doctor experimented on “test subjects” was they were put under a sun lamp, and it would burn their skin off. Despite being put in a sun lamp, they were also put in warm water where the water slowly increased. That was the best experiment the doctors did. There are various ways that men, and women were tortured. Children were usually instantly killed when they arrived at the camps. (“Medical

Ruth Bondy writes that the one decision that men did not have to face in Auschwitz-Birkenau in June 1944 was a decision that only the mothers faced. Although many of the women of Theresienstadt were privileged to live with their children in the family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, by June 1944 they knew they were going to be sent to the gas chambers. Because the Germans needed working hands they held a selection: the mothers of young children had the choice of presenting themselves to be selected as workers—or staying with their children and being sent to the gas chambers. After six months in Birkenau they had no illusions about saving their children: they knew that their children were being sent to the gas chambers. Only two of about six hundred

First there wasn't a lot of prisoners in the beginning, but as the camp started growing the more people there were. 26,000 were women prisoners in the camp.Most came from Poland

All prisoners were obligated to get hired for the construction of the camp. On January 1, 1945 where 76,728. Almost 26,000 of these were women, most of them Jews. Some of these Jews were prisoners for almost 4 years. More Jews were sent to Gross-Rosen. Most of them came from Poland and, on March 1944, some

During the Holocaust, Hitler gathered up millions of Jews, and thousands of Gypsies, physically or mentally disabled, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Many of which did not know what was going on. The Nazis then put these innocent people into ghettos, transit camps, extermination camps, or forced labor camps. ( “Introduction to the Holocaust”) “The camps played a large part in the Holocaust- the deliberate and systematic attempt by the Nazis to kill all the Jewish people in Nazi-controlled lands.” (Shuter, pg. 4.) People in the camps were divided by their genders. Men and older boys in one place, and women and young children in another. (Shuter, pg 14) The camps and ghettos also had very harsh conditions. People became very sick with typhus, died of starvation, got lice, and there were barely any showers or toilets. Camps likes Auschwitz, Belzec, and Sobibor were even worse. They had gas chambers where the frightened Jews were killed. The Nazi soldiers also made the

     The experiments done on the camp prisoners can be divided into two categories. The first was created to help the war effort and was performed by the medical services of the German military. The Luftwaffe (German Air Force) performed high altitude experiments on camp prisoners to test conditions experienced by pilots. Other examples of military experiments were inducing hypothermia, human toleration of seawater ingestion, and immunization experiments against several diseases (Friedlander 132). Women were used in military experiments to test treatment of combat

Mengele’s experiments were excruciating. He tried to change their sex many different ways he would also inject them with many different things. He had tried with many boys and girls to take their blood and switch trying to see if it would change the sex. He also would cut off there privates and try to switch it. This mostly happened with the older twins and if they were lucky one might survive it but most would die in front of the other eyes. Every few days they would take blood from the twins but while they took blood they also injected some of the twins with life threatening diseases. Many of the ones who became very sick from these disease were no longer feed much or given water and the worst they became the the sooner they would be taken to gas chambers to be killed. ( Holocaust Encyclopedia)

Organs of the victims from the holocaust were put into jars and displayed for research. The Nazis called them “unworthy lives” - who deemed too sick, weak or handicapped for the “Master Race.” More than 70,000 were killed, gassed to death or otherwise murdered between 1939 and 1941 at the hands of the sadist doctors and nurses by the end of the war. Thousands of brains, uteruses with fetuses and other organs and parts were preserved in jars until 1978. (Dark Chapter Closes On Patients ' Treated To Death' Last Rites For Victims Of Nazi Experiments,GEORGE JAHN, VIENN) “The Nazi physicians performed brutal medical experiments upon helpless concentration camp inmates. These acts of torture were characterized by several shocking features: (1) people were forced to become subjects in very dangerous studies against