Sobibor: Nazi Death Camps

The camp Auschwitz is where many bad things happened to many loyal Jewish and non-Jewish people.

Have you ever heard of the nasty, disgusting, and horrible conditions that jews had to suffer with in concentration camps during the Holocaust? Lice and fleas are a big part of conditions in concentration camps, another horrible condition in the camps are diseases and sanitation, lastly another awful condition in concentration camps is mass murder and starvation. Many people died in concentration camps during the Holocaust because of the environment the jews had to live in and deal with, and many families were split and torn apart because loved ones of theirs had died because of the horrible conditions in the camps.

2. On page 12, the narration changes. Why might it be necessary for someone else to begin telling Janie’s story now?

in Europe had harsher persecutions that led to murder. Over six million people were killed during this time. These deaths define two-thirds of European Jewry, and one-third of all world Jewry.

Thousands of people were dying every day because of the hatred for the jewish population that people displayed. People hated the Jews so much that they thought they needed to be punished. On January 30, 1933, World War II was already having thousands upon thousands of deaths per day, but it was about to get a lot worse when the Holocaust began. The Holocaust made the number of total deaths rise by about two million. The jewish people were put into concentration camps because Hitler believed they were not as good as everyone else, so he treated them terribly and their living conditions in concentration camps were awful.

Prisoner of War camps and concentration camps during the second world war were brutal, extreme, and deadly. Many POW soldiers, Jews, Gypsies, and more died within these camps of many causes. Sometimes as I’m learning about World War II, I wonder whether the Japanese prison camps were better, worse, or just as bad as Nazi concentration camps and why did Germans treat Americans better than the Japanese did? I chose this topic, because not many people look into the Japanese war camps as much as they did with the Nazi concentration camps. I thought about what happened in those camps that differed from German concentration camps and which was worse. That’s why I chose this topic to learn about.

Over 11 million innocent men, women, and children died during the Holocaust, all because of one man’s beliefs. During World War II and the Holocaust, Hitler’s main goal was to create the perfect race to control Europe and eventually the world. In order to accomplish this, he created concentration camps to isolate and torture individuals. There were 3 main types of camps; death or extermination camps, labor or work camps, and transit camp. Although these camps had different purposes, they all achieved 1 thing; killing millions of individuals and treating them inhumanely.

INTRO: The Auschwitz Concentration camp was the largest active camp run by the Nazis during World War II. Built in 1940, on the ground of former Polish towns and neighborhoods. The Nazis bulldozed the houses and built the camp. Most of the camp consisted of Slave labor and execution facilities. The camp had gas chambers, medical facilities, and a crematorium. The camp consisted of three sub camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. It also had many minicamps that were used to hold extra prisoners. The Nazis committed atrocities at all their concentration camps, but Auschwitz was the worst. The Holocaust was one of the worst acts of murder and cruelty from one group of humans to another.

Ebensee was a concentration camp established by the SS to dig tunnels for weapons storage close to the town of Ebensee, Austria in 1943. It was a part of the Mauthausen network. Due to the inhumane living and working conditions, Ebensee is considered one of the worst Nazi concentration camps for death counts of its prisoners. The SS would use codename like Kalk, Kalksteinbergwek, Solvay, and Zement all relating to limestone or cement.

Hunter:How would you feel if at the age of 9 you were sent to a Nazi concentration camp? Marion Blumenthal Lazan had this happen to her.

lasted up to 4 hours and if you were weak and fell, you were killed (“Auschwitz

During World War 2, the Nazi's created several concentration camps, but the one that was labeled one of the worst was Jasenovac. First of all, it was located in Croatia. Jasenovac was a complex of five smaller camps, Kapje, Brocia, Ciglana, Kozara, and Stara Gradiška, located 62 miles from the city of Zagreb. Furthermore, the camp was the largest in the area with a death count of 77,000-99,000 dead. The majority of those killed were Serbs. Many dies when the administration of Jasenovac blew up the camp at the end of the war to try and conceal their misdeeds and crimes. Specifically to the camps treatment of priisoners, they were terrible. Many people were killed or tortured in malicious ways. They had their throats cut with specifically made

The Sobibor Death Camp was created for one purpose only and that was to execute as many Jews as hastily as possible. The camp was located outside of the village of Sobibor on the eastern side of Lublin, close to the railroads it operated from May 1942 to October 1943. The primary source of assassinations was by gas chambers which Jews were brought in by train and led into the chambers told they were taking baths to undergo disinfection to prevent the increase of diseases. Sobibor Death Camp was the smallest concentration camp during the Second World War and killed approximately 260,000 jews within its walls. On October 14 1943, around 300 Jewish prisons attacked against the SS and escaped the prison. Later the massacre sites were destroyed

It is truly important to remember what had occurred in labor camps from 1933 to 1939. In Nazi Germany, concentration camps were where people were sent to work. Jews and other groups of people such as gypsies were sent to these camps. If someone was unable to work, they would be killed. The camps in Nazi Germany were cruel, and inhumane because people who were unable to work were killed, many caught deadly diseases, people were marked with wrong symbol, got experimented on, and people were sent to terrible housing.

Concentration camps were a sickening place that had horrid environment. For example, according to the historical journal from Karel Margry, “lack of hygiene, starvation diets, hard labour and infectious diseases caused the mortality rate to soar…” (www.tandfonline.com). The camps didn’t support cleanliness of the prisoners or camp itself. Prisoners had no control over what was kept clean, they were expected to live in the those conditions with no say of the situation. Simply stated, Harvey A. Barocas explains that ”Without exception, inmates complained of starvation and infectious disease as a result of extremely poor hygienic conditions…” (journals.sagepub.com). The prisoners kept by their own will were very mistreated and they