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Different Kinds of Camps During the Holocaust What is the Holocaust? The Holocaust was an attempt of genocide toward the Jewish race: The Holocaust (Shoah) was a unique event in 20th century history. It evolved slowly between 1933 and 1945. It began with discrimination; then the Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted; and finally they were treated as less than human beings and murdered. During the Second World War the Nazis sought to murder the entire Jewish population

renovation plans for the exhibit. The plans call for the continued used of the train car as a place to walk through wherein guests will exit the car “into the killing center exhibit” symbolising the transitional moment of victims towards their extermination. The hope is to physically convey deportation experiences whilst immersing visitors through active engagement with artifacts. The goal is to identify with victims and survivors on an emotional level whilst also providing material substance to

millions of Jews were slaughtered in death camps. The main causes of death were illness, beatings from Capo guards, or being gassed in a locked chamber. Leading to these innocent deaths, the prisoners were fed very little watered down soup once a day. There is no possible way for us to imagine the stress, torture, and pain every one of those people had to go through. The closest we have been to these horrors within the camp gates are through stories told from camp survivors. Victor E. Fankl is a German

by gassing and burning, and another half a million succumbed to starvation and disease making a total dead of about 3 million” (Source 1) calmly explained Rudolf Hoss, an Auschwitz Nazi commander. Hoss was the leader of the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1941 to 1943. He ordered to kill millions of people and inflicted pain and suffering upon the Jews. He did whatever it took to protect his leader, Adolf Hitler. For Hoss, mass murder was a daily routine. Rudolf Hoss was an inhumane Auschwitz Nazi

place? How was the death camp operated on such a large scale? What experiments were conducted by the chief medical examiner? Auschwitz was a concentration camp built in the nineteen forty, used mostly as a gas chamber, and was known for the terrible human experiments conducted there. Auschwitz - Birkenau was a concentration camp built in nineteen forty controlled by the nazi party, built five months after germany invaded poland. The camp was selected to be used a death camp in february nineteen forty

Although the death camps were dangerous, no one quite understood the process of gas chambers and the stages of doing so. Before the process of gas chambers was violent, there were multiple ways to kill a human, and they were using them a lot. But they had to find ways to not only kill people once at a time, but to end people with one single blow. Thus, the gas chambers came into the picture. Gas chambers were made in February 8, 1924 and the very first person to ever get executed in the United States

cyanide, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide. Millions of people die in gas chambers in WW2. Millions of people die in gas chambers. After people died in camps there bodies were burned in big stoves. In a death camp called Auschwitz-Birkenau 4 gas chambers were operated where 6,000 people were put to death each day by the Nazis gas chambers. At that camp alone over 2 million people died. This way of mass killing got gas vans after Einsatzgruppe members complained about killing large numbers of women and

shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (Wiesel 34). In addition, this passages explains what

Berlin because of his father’s cruel profession (being in charge of an extermination camp). Unaware of his father’s inhumane line of work, Bruno was forced to make do with all the questions about the people on the other side of the fence he never got answers to. This all begun solely because in Bruno’s new home, in the distance he could vaguely make out what he assumed was a farm, when in reality it was an extermination camp for Jews to go and, unfortunately,

“Why is the killing of 1 million a lesser crime then the killing of one person?” (Scream Bloody Murder). Throughout history groups of people have been killed by ruling powers, but the unlawful acts went without title until recent events in the 1940ʼs. The mass killings in Germany activated against the Jews created a new word, genocide. “Genocide refers to the widespread murder and other acts committed by governments or other groups with the intent to destroy - in whole or in part- a national