The Holocaust: Largest Death Camp In The Holocaust

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 Holocaust was an extermination of Jews. Adolf Hitler, a powerful dictator, tried to wipe out the entire Jewish population with his Nazis. He sent the Jews to his concentration camps, where they were starved, beaten, and shot. The rest worked, and some even managed to survive. When Hitler killed himself, the war came closer to an end, and the remaining Jews were saved. The Holocaust was truly a horrific event, and changed the course of history forever.

The Holocaust was the murder and persecution of approximately 6 million Jews and many others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis came to power in Germany in January of 1933. The Nazis thought that the “inferior” Jews were a threat to the “racially superior” German racial community. The death camps were operated from 1941 to 1945, and many people lost their lives or were forced to work in concentration camps during these years. The story leading up to the Holocaust, how the terrible event affected people’s lives, and how it came to and end are all topics that make this historic event worth learning about.

The Holocaust was the attempt by the Nazi regime to systematically exterminate the European Jewish race during World War II. The Holocaust was a reference to the murder of around six million Jews and other minority groups such as homosexuals, gypsies and the disabled (Wiesel, 2008).

Around six million European Jews were killed (The Holocaust). The Holocaust was run by Adolf Hitler, and Hitler loved being on top (The Holocaust). The word Holocaust comes from holos which is whole, and kaustos which is burned (The Holocaust). Hitler’s army tried to keep all of the concentration camps a secret, but with all the killing they just couldn’t keep it from the world (The Holocaust). Over 275,000 handicapped were killing (The Holocaust). In the fall of 1939, the army choose the mental and disability people to be gassed (The Holocaust). July 1933, German camps held 27,000 people (The Holocaust). At the end of the war, Hitler commited suicide (The

The Holocaust was one of the world’s darkest hours, a mass murder conducted in the shadows of the world’s most deadly war. The Holocaust also known as Shoah, means a systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews during the WWII by German Nazi. Adolf Hitler the leader of Nazis, who afraid Jews would take power over Germans; also, many Germans felt they were mistreated by the lost so Jews were like a scapegoat from the previous war lose so they can treat them inhumanely (“The Holocaust”). Millions of Jews were sent to the concentration camps around Europe. In there, they were tortured and killed. Many horrible things happened

The holocaust was an event that undoubtedly left a mark on millions of people’s lives. But among those people, those most affected were the survivors who, by chance, could walk away from Auschwitz with their lives. Upon reflection of the tragedies we now know occurred within the Jewish internment camps, one can only imagine the scarring effects that must have been left on the survivors. Through three texts I was able to identify a conversation of just how deteriorating the Jewish internment camps were to those who managed to live through them.

During the holocaust approximately 11 million people died in Nazi death camps. The horrible impact of the holocaust still impacts us today. The holocaust began January 30, 1933 and ended on May 8, 1945. The Nazi army had believed that they were superior. They were ruled and were lead by Adolf Hitler, their biggest camp was Auschwitz which was located in Poland. There are many sources that talk about the holocaust. One source is the book Night by Elie Wiesel and it focused on his personal experience. Another source is a documentary called Auschwitz Death Camp by Oprah Winfrey, in which she interviews Wiesel about the Auschwitz and the structures. The last source is a poem that is on a third person view and it is called "Little Polish Boy" by Peter Fischl and talks about a little polish bay and how he was held at gunpoint by the Nazi and had no one to speak up for the little boy. The big message of the holocaust is that we are all equal and memorialize the holocaust and the people that sacrificed their life for us.

In the article “ It's For You To Know That You Forgive ” A Holocaust survivor, Ava Kor talks about the hideous experiments that she and her twin sister, Miriam had to go through. Kor even says that “ she was ‘between life and death’ and used in brutal medical experiments. She and her sister Miriam were among the thousands of twins subjected to horrendous experiments by the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele.” (National 1)Which means that he did very hurtful and disgusting experiments to all the twins that were there in Auschwitz.

The Holocaust is a destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or a nuclear war. The Holocaust was terrible when it occurred. The Holocaust occurred during 1941- 1945 after world war 2. The Holocaust is basically killing or torturing people that were innocent. Researchers said that more than six million European, as well as members of other persecuted groups, such as gypsies and homosexual, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz.

Two million people were murdered at camp Auschwitz alone. (History.com Staff).These camps were used for forced labor (“ Nazi camps“,2016 ). People died of starvation,neglect,maltreatment, or were killed (“ Introduction to the Holocaust “,2016). 300,000 people during summer and fall of 1942 were deported, and that was the one of the biggest deportions ( History.com Staff) . People didn't just die from being killed they died from other things like forced labor and starvation too.

The Holocaust was one of the biggest genocide in the world. Over 17 million people died in it mostly Jews. There where more things to The Holocaust World War 2, Hitlers rise to power, and Anne Franks Diary. These events all happened at the same time reflecting on one another. The Holocaust was one of the worlds worst events in history.

     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)

World War Two was a time of death, starvation, and sorrow. Schutzstaffel, the Nazi German military, doctors found that they could allow unusual people into medical camps. Allowing the doctors to do experimentation on dwarfs, babies, and twins. The brains behind the medical branch was a man who wanted nothing but to multiply the German race, through twins. Josef Mengele’s life wasn’t an ideal life, but one of life and death, knowledge and experimentation, hatred and escape.

This article on Dr. Josef Mengele, follows his bizarre medical experimentations on prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Dr. Mengele joined the Nazi party in 1937. April of 1943, Josef Mengele became the SS captain and soon transferred to Auschwitz in May. He soon got the name “The Angel of Death” for his cruel attitude. Mengele started to show interest in experimenting on twins. He was so interested in them that on his off days, he would show up when trains full of new prisoners arrived at Auschwitz to search for twins. Since Mengele had a license to do whatever he wanted to his “subjects”, he began to perform lethal experiments on Gypsy and Jewish twins, preferably children. In 1945, Dr. Mengele fled Auschwitz due to the Soviet