Ravens Woodland Concentration Camp In Northern Germany

On the 21st of April in 1941, the Nazis opened a concentration camp, Natzweiler. Natzweiler was a concentration camp in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace, southwest of Strasbourg, France. It was the central camp and the only concentration camp in France. Nearly 22,000 deportees died there. (Struthof) The camp also served as both a labor camp supporting the Nazi war industry, and as a research spot for Nazi professors from the Reich University of Strasbourg to do medical experiments. Although Natzweiler is not a well-known camp, it is one of the biggest contributors to the terrible hell known as the Holocaust. Despite all of the terrible events that happened in the course of World War II, the Concentration and Internment camps were by far the

As fresh shipments of Jews were pushed into the camp, they were sorted by two classes, the ones who could work and were strong and ones who were weak. The weak were immediately brought to the gas chambers. At a later time, the prisoners were further sorted into temporary workers and permanent workers. The temporary workers labor consisted of cleaning freight cars, taking valuable from new Jews, and keeping the Tube moving (Laqueur, 1). Any prisoner assigned to these roles struggled to survive and could be replaced at any moment. The other set of prisoners worked on much harder jobs, like construction, removing and cleaning of the gas chambers, and body disposal. There was one group of Jews called Sonderkommandos, who were in charge of removing their fellow Jews from the gas chambers. They were forced into this position by the Germans, because they were the most physically fit and could perform the tasks given to them. This was considered one of the worst jobs however, it had a few benefits such as having straw beds, being able to wear regular clothes, and enjoying a bit more food. The Sonderkommandos usually worked in the gas chambers and the mass graves. Not only were the Treblinka camps some of the worst labor camps during World War II, but the prisoners’ jobs demoralized and dehumanized them (How do you know

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 Auschwitz camp used its prisoners for forced labor. The Nazis treated the Jews poorly and as of they were nothing. Ushmm.org states “Jewish women who had been assigned to forced labor in a nearby armaments factory”. Between the years 1940-45 out of 1.3 million Jews, 1.1 million died. All of those innocent people died only because their race was hated by one very powerful, but very convincing man. After a year of the camp existing, the SS and the police cleared about forty square meters for the camp. They had all of this cleared by forced labor from the Jews. The Nazis were very cruel to the Jews and for a certain amount of time this camp was used as a killing center. Those cold- hearted people killed men, women, and innocent

Jews were sent to concentration camps when they were found, there they would be starved, killed, forced to work, and even put into gas chambers. Nazi camps held Jews, homosexuals, priests, ministers, socialists, communists, and more, but most of the population at these concentration camps were Jews. The camp officials sent the old, the young, the weak, people with disabilities, and women with children directly to the gas chambers. When the prisoners became weak or ill, the guards forced them to work until they died or even killed them on the spot. According to an interview with

Most of the prisoners were Jews,most of them were in brutal conditions. Then they were evacuated to Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenburg, and many other camps. Many prisoners died because they were hungry and thirsty, so they were killed if they were weak.

After the invasion of Poland, from Germany, the Nazi’s opened up concentration camps. Auschwitz-Birkenau had three camps all in one. It had a concentration camp, a slave labor complex and a killing center mainly for Jews, although it was that was not said. Added in October 1941, Auschwitz II “killing center for mainly Jews, confused the allies which helped to conceal its most lethal purpose.” (Rogers 90) Located in a southern town in Oswieam, Poland. Auschwitz was a prime location because it was located at a railway junction, a means of transportation spot for all the people transferred to these camps all throughout Europe.

Rita Kesselman, another prisoner, told us about her journey to Auschwitz and what she saw when she got there. She gave us information about the cattle cars and the people on them. When she finally got to Auschwitz said she saw the SS and their guns sticking out. She also saw the people and to what had happened to them. They looked so different from when they first got there. It seemed like the life was sucked out of them in their uniforms and all. The people she saw did not speak; technically they weren't allowed to talk. She then gave us insight about how they selected the people to live and die. She told us the people to the right got to live, and the rest didn't. Then, she went on to tell us about the living conditions. She didn't get to

Camp construction began in the year of 1938 near the village of Ravensbrück, approximately 50 miles north of the capital of Nazi Germany: Berlin. Once Lichtenburg was closed in 1939, Ravensbrück became the only camp designated almost exlusively for women. The camp of Ravensbrück became the largest concentration camp, in the German Reich, for women. “The first prisoners interned at Ravensbrück were approximately 900 women whom the SS had transferred from the Lichtenburg women's concentration camp in Saxony in May 1939”

What is a concentration camp to you? Most likely you would say a horrible place where they followed Jews. To the many Jewish people who had nowhere to go, this was more or less a place to stay and not a place to die. So in other words to the many people that were being shipped to these camps, they almost had no choice. If you had no food water or shelter, most likely you would turn to the first person to help you, and the first person they turned to wasn’t the right one at all. But how could someone like Hitler, a failure in school, become such a feared warlord? Well from research I learned that Hitler had a meeting to create a group that would eventually slaughter the Jews through thorough planning and most likely through the start of a war.

Auschwitz was one of the most infamous and largest concentration camp known during World War II. It was located in the southwestern part of Poland commanded by Rudolf Höss. Auschwitz was first opened on June 14, 1940, much later than most of the other camps. It was in Auschwitz that the lives of so many were taken by methods of the gas chamber, crematoriums, and even from starvation and disease. These methods took "several hundreds and sometimes more than a thousand" lives a day. The majority of the lives killed were those of Jews although Gypsies, Yugoslavs, Poles, and many others of different ethnic backgrounds as well. The things most known about Auschwitz are the process people went through when entering the camp and

The concentration camps started in 1933 when President Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor in the twentieth century. The first concentration camp was named Dachau, just outside of Munich, while Hitler was chancellor of Germany and overpowered Germany. Dachau was built in March 1933. It was established by the National Socialists also known as the Nazi government. This camp held about 5,000 prisoners. There were about 20,000 camps. In the end of the war, only twenty-two main camps and thousands of smaller camps remained around Germany and many other countries that Hitler controlled.

World War Two started September 1, 1935; when Germany invaded Poland. Hitler had soon started enforcing The Final Solution, a plan to kill all of the Jews in Europe, and more concentration camps were being made. Until then, extermination camps were being created too. Auschwitz was one of the largest camp complexes of it's kind. One of the best estimates that we have of how many were killed here is of the 1.3 million deported, about 1.1 million of them died.

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.

The Auschwitz Concentration Camp Complex was the largest camp established by the Nazi Regime. It has three camps, Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. The camps are located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow, near the prewar German Polish border in Upper Silesia, an area that the Nazi Germany annexed in 1939 after invading and conquering Poland. Auschwitz l, opened on April 1940 and was closed in mid January 1945. Auschwitz II, also called Birkenau, opened on October 1941 and was closed on January 1945. Then, Auschwitz III, also called Monowitz, opened on October 1942 and it was closed in late January 1945. The camps were killing centers and they also deployed prisoners at forced labor. The Auschwitz