Research Paper On Gross Rosen

Birkenau was supposed to be able to hold over 125,000 prisoners, and was also the site where most of the executions took place. Inmates were used for most of the manual labor. Later on in that year the Soviet prisoners arrived as 3,000 were sent to be executed, another 12,000 died from other causes, and only 1,000 remained and were to do forced labor (Laqueur and Tydor 34,35).

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

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

Subsequently, to get to the camps, families were packed into small trains where they had to ride on for hours to get to their destination. Men and women were separated once they reached their camps. Most men stayed at Camp Petawawa and Camp Ripples, whereas, women stayed at the Kingston Penitentiary. The men and women were separated from their loved ones as a punishment and for the different types of labor each gender may have had. Being divided from their own families may have been a traumatizing experience as they would not know the next time they will see them again, especially for

people or allies could've bombed these camps to reduce the number of murders, but none of the

Most of these camps were used for the elimination of the Jews. There were also camps that were mainly just for torture purposes and the Jews had to work until death. The Jews that were in these camps were also put into striped uniforms and had limited food like one piece of bread a day, these were awful living conditions.

So many new prisoners kept arriving, many of them women. On January 1st, 1945, there were 8,730 women in Bergen-Belsen. By January 15, 1945, there were 16,475 women. Something had to be done. This is when the “Large Women's Camp” had formed. By March 1st, 1945 the “Large Women's Camp” held 26,723 women in it. On March 15, 1945, they had gained around 4,000-5,000 more women. On this day there were 30,387 women in the camp.

The French originally built these camps to receive Spanish refugees. (“Nazi Transit Camps: Drancy”). The camps were built for about 700 to stay, but approximately 7,000 people were held there, they were again faced with poor conditions. Of the 7,000 people there 3,000 died and the 4,000 remaining were shipped off to Auschwitz where they were sent to be killed. (“Nazi Transit Camps: Drancy”) Upon arriving at Drancy the Jews were subject to violent searches, and their heads were shaved. Everyone that went through the camps were all eventually sent to Auschwitz and murdered, there was approximately 1,000 people every 2/3 days murdered at Auschwitz. (“The

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

Only about 10% of the Ravensbruck population was made up of Jewish women. There were also social outcasts, gypsies, political dissenters, foreign resisters, and the disabled and other “ ‘inferior’ beings” (Sebba 3). About 130,000 women of 20 different nationalities passed through and 30,000 to 50,000 were killed there. The camp was only designed to hold 5,000 women, but was holding six times that number. Only 15,000 survived from the terrible environment of the camp. There were also women being trained here for becoming Nazi guards. Many women were sent here not knowing what it

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.

There really is no possible way to determine the exact number of people who suffered and lost their lives in the camps because not all people who arrived were registered as inmates. Instead, they were immediately sent to the Zyklon B gas chambers or killed (Auschwitz). These torture sites were established in the late 1940s and did not end until 1944-1945 (Auschwitz-Birkenau- “The).

The women didn't function like normal anymore. Sleeplessness and hair loss would become normal for them. Between 1950 and 1990 thousands of political prisoners were held in forced labor prisoners like the Hoheneck Castle. They generated billions in revenue for the prisons.

In June, 1940, the Auschwitz Concentration Camp opened; this camp would later be the home and death place of hundreds of thousands of prisoners. Jews, Poles, and Gypsies made up the large majority of prisoners in the camp. Life in Auschwitz included living in undesirable conditions, and being kept on a very strict schedule day in, day out.

     These camps were set up along railroad lines so that the prisoners would be conveniently close to their destination. Unfortunately, many prisoners didn't even survive the train ride to the camps. Herded like cattle, exhaustion, disease, and starvation ended the long treacherous journey for many of the prisoners. On the trains, Jews were starved of food and water for days. Nearly 8% of the people did not even survive the ride to the camps. (Nyiszli, 37)