Woke up & had breakfast in the hostel. Went to the train station and met our tour guide, then headed to Dachau. Dachau had mixed emotions. The Jewish concentration camp left many speechless. Words could not describe how it felt to walk through the camp, where so many people was murdered. Walking to the furnace I could not fathom what actually took place. I never knew all of the symbols each prisoner wore and had no clue there was a different symbol for everyone in the camp. Seeing the original prisoner suits was amazing yet sad. The status of the mangled bodies will be imbedded in my memory and I will never forget what the wall stated which was “Never again.” The solidarity jail cells was eye opening. The different places for each religion …show more content…
The building was original all the way to the wall color and chandeliers. After that had to meet back at hostel to have a meeting with Dr. O’Neil and Dr. Martin to say goodbyes.
Prague 5/26/15
Dr. O’Neil is now the professor for the rest of our trip. Long train ride and the ATM would not work fortunately we found one that would work. Czech money was confusing but got the hang of it. I did like it because everything was cheaper than euros. A great example for the change rate was 2,000 = 80$. Walked to hostel, tons of hills, Hostel was really nice, all the girls was in the same room, went and got dinner then went to bed
Prague 5/27/15
Breakfast at Starbucks & McDonalds, free walking tour with a really tall young guy but learned important history of Prague. He lead us around to many sites that included: Old Town Hall, astronomical clock, Prague city hall, wenceslass square, municipal house, Jewish museum and then we had a snack of fries and hotdogs. The tour was extremely cold. Mandy had coke spilt all over her. Went to the Jewish area & saw the cemetery learned how they stacked the caskets because they were running out of space. Chicken skewer for dinner, one cool thing that we saw was the being born again in the Prague Old Town. It was interesting and looked like a big metal statue. Following, students napped and Pub-crawl that I did not attend nor did Allison. Jenna and Avery came
Liberation means freedom, but during the Holocaust prisoners didn’t have freedom. The prisoners of the Holocaust were sent there to die and to suffer because they didn’t see Hitler as the messiah. The concentration camps were brutal and inhumane but, living conditions still did not improve as much as liberated camp survivors hoped or expected. Concentration camps disregarded all basic human rights until liberation which still did not live up to the expectations of the survivors. During the Holocaust the prisoners did not have any freedom until they were liberated.
Auschwitz Birkenau was the largest death camp during the Holocaust. Auschwitz is located in a Poland city called Oswiecim. The Germans construction of Auschwitz Birkenau began in April 1940. 1.1 million people were sent to Auschwitz and 200,000 of those 1.1 million survived the Holocaust. The people who survived the Holocaust found a new life in modern day to day.
When I got to the first concentration camp. They told us to take off our clothes and put on other clothes that looked much worse. Then they would tell us to stick out our left arm so they could tattoo our numbers on. During the Holocaust, concentration camp prisoners received tattoos only at one ... non-Jewish persons of virtually all European nationalities.
The Dachau concentration camp was established March 22 1933,at an old WWI gunpowder factory.Dachau was one of the first camps to use SS soldiers.At first,Dachau was intended to befor only men.During the first year of Dachau,it was able to hold 4,800 prisoners.After being liberated,Dachau had 31,951 certified deaths.The total of prisoners to arrive at Dachau is 206,206.It was not a death camp for th genocide of the Jews,although there was Jewish prisoners there.
I hear the familiar voice of our officer yelling at us (Châtel). That means another day; another long, painful and exhausting day. Today is different though. Everyone has an odd sense of urgency. I walk over to my mom.
In 1933 the Nazis established concentration camps for people who weren’t like Germans. When Hitler came to lead Germany he started sending people to Concentration Camps. He thought German was the best religious belief and culture. Hitler created Concentration Camps for the people who weren’t German because he thought they were bad people.
In early 1930’s one of the darkest times in history, a worldwide depression had hit Germany. Adolf Hitler conducted a slave raid throughout the Soviet Union during World War II.
And i met some friends there and i got to eat bacon potato and cheese little lettuce. After that we went to are grandma's house for a little bit then we went home next morning i got to
Auschwitz- the most populated and popular concentration camp within the Holocaust. Soviet troops freed the people incarcerated within the camp. That day, over 7,000 prisoner were released, mostly ill and dying because of the long term effects of the camps. Between 1940 and 1945, over 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz and over 1.1 million were murdered.
What is genocide? Is what some people want to know. Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. It happens everywhere all around the world. In my opinion, I don 't agree with the acts of genocide. They were too harsh on those people who didn 't even deserve to be treated that way. The holocaust started in January 30, 1933. The president during the time was Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. In march 20, 1933 an officers opened the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich. The camp was help for people like jews to be tortured and it wasn 't any good thing about the concentration camp. The Dachau concentration camp was the first regular concentration camp established by the National Socialist government. This camp was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the northeastern part of the town of Dachau. During the first year the camp held about 4,800 prisoners. In the early 1937 the SS was using prisoner labor and began construction of a large complex of buildings on the grounds of the original camp. The prisoners were forced to do the work starting with the destruction of the old munitions factory. It was under terrible conditions. The construction was completed in mid August 1938 and camp wasn 't changed until 1945. The number of Jewish prisoners at Dachau rose with the increased persecution of jews and on November 10 to 11, 1938 in the aftermath of Kristallnacht. There was
In 1944, medical doctor Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew and family man, arrived at the Auschwitz camp in Poland. In an effort to stay alive after being separated from his daughter and wife—though he feared his days would soon be counted—he volunteered to work as a pathologist under Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele. Working under the supervision of a Nazi superior meant one became Sonderkommando. As a Sonderkommando, one had the privilege to wear civilian clothes and receive better meals. Hence, working for Dr. Mengele, Dr. Nyiszli had certain privileges other Jewish prisoners did not obtain.
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.
Comprehending the life suffered by those forced into German concentration camps is inconceivable, for only those who experienced such trauma can understand. Authors such as Primo Levi present readers with a glimpse into the daily, sorrowful life of prisoners. Levi, an Italian Jew and chemist, was captured by the fascist army in December of 1943. At only twenty-four years of age, he admitted to his ignorance and inexperience which would fail to help him transition into Auschwitz. Levi’s time in Auschwitz compelled him to view humanity as self-interested men who lost sympathy for each other in the means of survival.
The concentration camp was a place where they took jewish people and had them killed or beaten up because they were jews. In April 1940, the first commandant was a man named Rudolph Hoss for Auschwitz. Auschwitz-Birkenau was a general term for the network of Nazi concentration and Labor camps. The camp was mostly described by people as “The Death Camp” because it was basically a camp for killing jewish people( Auschwitz 1).