The Importance Of The Gas Chambers During The Holocaust

Auschwitz was one of the largest and first concentration camp during WW2 and next to Auschwitz were two other death camps that were named Auschwitz ll and lll. At Auschwitz, there was a total of 8 gas chambers and 4 of them can hold up to 2,000 prisoners (Mostly Jews) at a time. There were 11 million people murdered in the Holocaust and it estimated that 6 million Jews were killed and one in six was killed at Auschwitz.

For example, they sometimes would hand the prisoners a bar of soap so they would think that were actually going to take a shower. Usually in this case they were just led to the gas chambers. In these gas chambers, a form of Zyklon B was dropped in there, and once it made contact with air it changed to the gas form. After this, the bodies of the dead were taken to the crematoriums. Jewish prisoners were given the jobs of transferring the deceased bodies to the crematoriums. Every day many died. Almost one million people were killed in Auschwitz alone.

the horrific events in the concentration camp and the ever-present risk of death does Eliezer

The train arrived to Auschwitz. In the middle of the night. ¨Men to the left! Women to the right” (Wiesel 29)! The SS officers shouted as they forced the Jews off the train. At this time Elie lost his mother and his three sisters. Little did they know that they were going into the gas chamber to die. The women and old people were not useful in the camps. The concentration camp was about 25 square miles. An inmate spotted Elie and told him that his age was eighteen not fifteen. He also told his dad that he was not fifty but that he was forty. The SS shouted for them to move. They ended up in the barracks. The inmates that awaited them in there ordered the new Jews to ¨Strip! Hurry up! Raus! Hold on only to your belt and your shoes¨ (35). They then were ordered to run to the barber. There they got all of their hair buzzed off. They then were soaked in disinfectant

When the corpses were deprived of valuables, they were incinerated in pits, on pyres or in large crematoriums. Crematorium II, the biggest in Auschwitz, was capable of incinerating over 1,400 bodies a day. Altogether, the four crematoria could incinerate 4,416 people a day, and over 1,600,000 individuals were cremated per year.

Eliezer and Schlomo's father-son relationship is the reason Elie had hope throughout the Holocaust. After the selection at the arrival of Auschwitz., Elie and his father had to walk towards the fire pits, where babies, children, and adults are being thrown in. Elie and his father thought that this was their fate as well. Such a traumatizing event brings forth a critical quote spoken from Schlomo, "You should have gone with your mother". This in context, references to the selection, as Schlomo did not want to see his son die. Another idea used to portray this extreme idea of mental torture was a thought from Eliezer, where he wants to throw himself into the electric fence to escape the brutal death of burning in the pits. This started

Furthermore, while still in Auschwitz and after he was liberated, Elie started to reveal the side of him that acclaimed many negative character traits. First of all, toward the end of the book, Elie was nonchalant and numb toward all the terrible things that happened at Auschwitz, “Very close to us stood the tall chimney of the crematorium’s furnace. It no longer impressed us. It barely drew our attention” (Wiesel 104). After moving to a new camp, Elie was unphased by seeing the new crematoriums. Now that Elie and his father were transported to the new camp, they are unfazed by everything that they see. The things they witness would shock most people, but Elie and his father are used to it. This proves that Elie changed after experiencing Auschwitz, he went from being shocked every time he saw something new at the camp, to barely even noticing those things. In addition, Elie also becomes very disinterested and apathetic after he arrived to Auschwitz, “Suddenly the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight” (Wiesel 99). Based on the evidence he had, Elie believed his father was dead. Throughout the whole book, Elie has been staying with his father and keeping them

In spite Eliezer and his sister were offered a way out to escape by his previous maid, they did not accept the offer as family always stick together instead they took a correct, decisive action and for that reason they survived the first part of the perturbation of the situation they were in. “I’m too old my son, I’m too old to start a new life. I’m too old to start from scratch again in a country so far away.” (Wiesel 6) As a family they stuck together and followed their instinct until their arrival at Auschwitz , Elie and his sister made the right decision even though no one was there to advise them. When they were taken to Auschwitz a person told them not to conceal their real age, so when the SS officer questioned their age the father mentioned that he was 40, while he was actually 50, and Eliezer mentioned that he was 18,but he was actually 15. “Didn’t you know what was in store for you at Auschwitz? Haven’t you hear about it? In 1944?” (Wiesel 30) He also had to take correct, decisive actions because they had to lie about their age so they can stay together during the time they were in the hell city, the worst concentration camp of all time. However they split up the men and women. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that

As a child growing up in Sighet, Eliezer and his family looks much like an ordinary and close knit family today. That is until they were “taken away” where all control over life is striped away and as a result has his destiny chose by chance (Wiesel 22). During his time in Auschwitz, he has no choice of what he does. His only choice is to fight to survive. Eliezer simply does what he is told, when he is told, so he is not punished.

Eliezer is a young Jewish boy who studies the Kabbalah and wants his faith to evolve. Elie, along with many other Jews just before the Holocaust, was warned early about the terrible occurrences going on in Germany against the Jews. The Jews new something was going on but were reluctant to accept the reality of the situation. The Jews were taken on a train to Birkenau untold of the hell on earth they were about to encounter known as Auschwitz. Elie enters with his father, mother, and sister. At the camp Elie is separated from his mother and sister later finding out they were killed. Throughout the story roles switch as Elie must become the protector of his father

Although Eliezer is passionate, his father assumes he is too young to understand the complexity of certain topics and refuses to assist. Regardless of his dad’s disapproval, Elie successfully finds a mentor. When Eliezer reached Auschwitz, he exhibited signs of doubt and confusion. He witnessed adults, children, babies being thrown into fires and burning until they died. He questioned God, wondering why he would allow such horrifying episodes to occur.

They were hopeful that they would be put to work and not just sent to the crematorium right away. When the Jews arrived at the concentration camp they were divided into two lines, one was for the jews that would be put to work and the other line was for the ones that would be sent to the crematorium right away. At Auschwitz, Eliezer’s mom and sister got put into a different line than him and his father. His mother and sister were sent to the crematorium, Eliezer and his dad were put into the line that would make them work. When they were on the train there was a crazy lady that was telling them about the fires that she foresaw.

When Elie and his father first arrived at Auschwitz and were separated from his mother and sisters, they were confused and frightened. They didn’t know it at the time, but their lives were being controlled by their ages. Both Elie and his father would have been killed

Inmates resembled skeletons and were so weak they were unable to move. The smell of burning bodies was ever present and piles of corpses were scattered around the camp. However, you could be “saved” from the crematoria to be used as test subjects to cruel experimentation and used as lab rats for any experiment the scientists wanted to conduct. Later in the war, extermination camps were built. These were specialized for the mass murder of Jews using Zyklon B to ensure a painful, long, and torturous death. The bodies would then be thrown into the fire and all clothes, teeth, and shoes would be sent to pursue the German war front. At max efficiency, 20,000 people would be killed in the gas chambers a day. As the red Army approached near to liberate the Jews in concentration and extermination camps, SS officers sent prisoners on a death march across hundreds of miles, where they ran with no food or water, no matter the weather, until they reached the closest camp. SS officers proceeded to blow up the camps to hide the genocide from the

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).