Shep Zitler's Private Hell

There has been many stories on how cruel the victims of the Holocaust were treated, especially in the concentration camps. The Auschwitz concentration camps, out of many other camps is where this all occurred.The victims were abused and put through forced labor, it was physically and mentally hard for them to live in the camps knowing in the matter of days they will die. The prisoners in the camps were forced to work, the sick and disabled prisoners were killed as they were seen as “useless” since they were not capable of working. The labor consisted of digging ditches, leveling the ground, laying roads, and constructing new blocks and buildings for a tough 11-14 hours a day. During the tiring and inevitable hours of working, the prisoners had small rations of food.The meals were

Frankl endured much suffering during his time in the concentration camp. All of his possessions were taken away, including his manuscript in which he recorded all of his life's work. He went through rough manual labor, marching through freezing temperatures, and little or no

As ordered by Himmler, a huge show of force descended upon the Warsaw Ghetto. SS troops, German Police, and Lithuanian and

Summary: This article was an introduction to the Holocaust. The German Nazi’s thought that the Jews were a community. Not only the Jews were targeted, anyone with a racial inferiority was targeted. For example, although the Jews were the main threat the gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses, and homosexuals and the disabled were also targeted. The Holocaust was a way to decrease the Jewish population; the final solution was to murder the Jews of Europe or anyone that was a threat to their German culture. Many died of incarceration and maltreatment. During the war they created ghettos, forced-labor camps between 1941 and 1944 the Nazi German Authorities would deport the Jews to extermination camps where they were murdered in gassing facilities. May 7, 1945 the German armed forces surrendered to the allies.

The prisoners managed to survive physically by enduring labor with lots of tenacity. In the document, it states, “There the Jews are unloaded and examined for their fitness to work by a team of doctors, in the presence of the camp commandant and several SS officers. At this point anyone who can somehow be incorporated into the work program is put in a special camp” (Doc. A). This quote shows that those who appear fit to work

Whenever you helped a Jew you were shamed throughout your entire town. (Document B) The way they did this was by whoever committed the crime was walked down the road along with the people they helped to execution site. (Document B) This was mainly done to show non-Jewish Poles the punishment of helping a Jew. This was also done to strike fear in them. The Germans wanted the Poles of fear them for they wouldn't go against them. These moment were often put in newspaper and put on the radio to scare the Poles. (Document B) But besides the people who were caught and killed there was people who successfully helped Jews live though the war and lived

First of all , Elie and all people who survived the Holocaust and the death camps went through serious physical exertion. Elie Wiesel wrote in his book after a 3 day train ride, “The last day had been the most lethal. We had been a hundred or so in this wagon. Twelve of us left it.

The Holocaust consisted of many inhuman details, jews were malnourished, beaten, killed, and worked till they dropped. Wiesel and the rest of jews lived in nice homes with fires and good food and water. But then Hitler rose to power and sought revenge so he began to exterminate the jews. Elie Wiesel stated in his memoir as he recalls his time in Auschwitz, “Our bodies frozen. The stones were so cold that touching them, we felt that are hands would remain stuck...the middle of January my foot began to swell because of the cold”(Wiesel pg 78). The conditions Wiesel and the jews undertook were horrific. With all of the physical

All of the prisoners experienced terrible things that changed the way they processed situations. Something that no man would have let slide by occurred during the death marches. The book says,”He must have died, trampled under the feet of the thousands of men who followed us.” Before the Holocaust nobody would have let a young die like that. They would have cared, and

In 1941, the Germans pushed the red army out and took all polish territory, Wiesenthal and his wife were imprisoned in a forced labor camp where he worked in a repair shop for Lvov’s Eastern Railroad. By 1942 the Germans had begun to implement the “Final Solution”- the annihilation of all European Jewry. A total of 89 members of his and his wife’s families had been killed by Nazis. Wiesenthal worked in the polish underground,

In the camps they were treated very poorly, worse than animals. With barely any food they were all emaciated, with many very sick. At times they would go a week without even a taste of bread. “Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs” (Wiesel 100). This shows just how hungry they all were. They were so hungry they fought over little crumbs of stale bread. Prisoners were ever whipped and beaten to death. Like the time Elie was whipped almost to death for coming up on Idek and the polish girl. “It was over. I had not realized it, but I had fainted. I came to when they doused me with cold water” (Wiesel 58). Elie was whipped so many times that he passed out from the pain. Many had lost loved ones and were Bereaved. The SS officers didn't care about the prisoners one bit. They are the ones who treated the prisoners so

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.

After his two week trial was up he was then sentenced to six months in jail. In 1940 it was decided they were going to be sent to a concentration camp. They were transported by a wagon with cells big enough for only one person with just a wooden bench and table and 3 more people in a cell. They only ate in the evening and the prisons they would stop at and would be sent off with a big piece of bread until the next stop. Heinz was very confused why he and others such as people facing criminal charges were being sent to a concentration camp.

     Jews were forced to obey the guards' orders from the moment they arrived at the camps. "If they didn't, they would be beaten, put into solitary confinement, or shot." (Nyiszli, 49) A prisoner said, "I can remember when I first arrived. The S.S. would take babies right out of their mother's arms, throw them in the air and then shoot them. This is when I realized that I had just entered hell." (Nyiszli, 102) The prisoners had

Wladyslaw Szpilman’s story was both tragic and inspiring in some ways. His story teaches us that human nature cannot be broken down easily without trying to fight and survive first. Szpilman had to go through many hardships for him, as a Jew, to survive in Germany. No human beings should be treated the way Jews were treated during the Holocaust. At that time Hitler was in power and he used the Jews as a scapegoat because he believed that the Jews were the main cause of many Germany’s problems such as the Treaty of Versailles. Jews were treated like animals, they were caged and had no choice but to be confined to the Warsaw ghetto where walls built around it by the order of Hitler. They were also not allowed to walk beside the Germans on the