Sonderkommando

Extremely harsh and cruel things come to mind when people talk about the Holocaust. The Holocaust is remembered today extremely vividly by everyone all around the world. This was a time when Germany was under rule of an Anti-Semitic named of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was interested in making Germany ‘pure’, his reasoning seemed very unclear. Many historians cannot find what or where things went wrong for him. Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany had a huge impact on the Holocaust and how this affected

expendable labor due to their inferior abilities and physical weakness. Of the 12,000 prisoners who were sent to Birkenau in 1941, only 150 survived to the following summer. Some prisoners were assigned to the most gruesome task -- that of the Sonderkommando. These prisoners were forced to work in the crematoria, burning the Jews who had just been gassed. All prisoners who were selected for forced labor were tattooed with numbers on their left arms. Any slip, outburst,

“At the peak of operations, 15,000 men, women and children died there each day. Death on that scale took enormous labor, and towards the end, when the SS began to fear discovery, the mass graves were opened and the rotting bodies burned.” The Sonderkommando, a group of prisoners, were responsible of disposing bodies of other prisoners. The purpose of surviving till the end was to tell the horrific stories of the Warsaw Ghetto. Such as the filthy living conditions. “In Nazi camps especially,

“At the peak of operations, 15,000 men, women and children died there each day. Death on that scale took enormous labor, and towards the end, when the SS began to fear discovery, the mass graves were opened and the rotting bodies burned.” The Sonderkommando, a group of prisoners, were responsible of disposing bodies of other prisoners. The purpose of surviving till the end was to tell

Since the Holocaust, a theory has emerged for the real reason Jews were forced into concentration camps. Controversy surrounds this theory, between those who claim Jews were being exterminated inside concentration camps and those who disagree, claiming that this event never occurred in the camps. Holocaust deniers have gathered to discuss the theory whether the Nazis indeed committed mass murder inside these infamous structures. To this day, skeptics are unclear whether these camps were built for

A concentration camp is where prisoners of war, enemy aliens, and political prisoners are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions, or place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions. The first concentration camps were established in 1933 for confinement of opponents of the Nazi Party. The supposed opposition soon included all Jews, Gypsies, and certain other groups. By 1939 there were six camps: Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Flossenburg

Reading historical sources is an important and fundamental way of learning from history because it provides different perspectives of a particular event. If historians and scholars were to draw from one particular source, then they would have a limited perspective of an event that occurred. Therefore, this is why many different sources need to be integrated into learning about a particular subject. While learning about the Holocaust, my Professor, Gordon Dueck, has used Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night

1943 for handing out anti-Nazi leaflets. Others engaged in resistance inside the concentration camps. In Auschwitz I, five Jewish women deployed at the Vistula-Union-Metal Works detachment, had supplied the gunpowder that members of the Jewish Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau, used to blow up a gas chamber and kill several SS men during the uprising in October 1944. Millions of women were persecuted and murdered during the Holocaust. Though in the end, it was their classification according to

In the novel, Elli Friedmann has to encounter traumatizing experiences that a 13 year-old should not have to go through. She starts out living at a small farming town at the edge of the Carpathian foothills, and then gets taken away from her home to living in the “ghetto” with all the other Jews in nearby districts. From there, her mother and her travel camp to camp with SS guards comparing everyone with the last. While she come across the challenges, she learns that dying is not an option, never

The dictionary defines terror and genocide as ‘an extreme fear’ and ‘the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation” respectably. Within these parameters, it is suitable to state that the terrors the governments of Germany and Russia forced some of their citizens to endure are nothing less than acts of genocide. Between 1933 and 1949, over six million Jewish people from Germany and Europe perished in Nazi Concentration Camps during the