...“I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it”. These are the words of Charlotte Delbo, a survivor of Auschwitz. For many men and women Auschwitz was a time of great fear, death and despair. The Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II, and commanded by Rudolf Hoss (1900-1947). It included three main camps. All three camps used prisoners for forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. These concentration camps were made up of mainly Jewish people. An estimated 1.3 million people were sent to the camp, and at least 1.1 million died. Around 90 percent of those were Jews. As a matter of fact,...
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...Jasmine Buisson English 101 0822 Professor Neddy McMills The Holocaust was one of the most tragic and brutal time during the World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Jews were targeted and precisely murdered in the largest genocide of the 20th century. What started this horrific massacre was the notorious Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany. After the start of World War II, Hitler the chancellor of Germany created a policy known as the “Final Solution.” From the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 to Kristallnacht in 1938, Hitler slowly removed Jews from German society. However, the Nazis created an elaborate and intensive system to work Jews to forced labor under brutal conditions. From the concentration camps created by the Nazi, forced labor was futile and destructive. The concentration camp forced the Jews to perish without proper equipment, clothing, nourishment, or rest. Because Adolf Hitler devised the Final Solution to eradicate Europeans Jews, more than one million Jews, labored and perish in Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp. Like what Fidel Castro said “There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.” After the start of World War II, the anti-Jewish law enforcers came up with a plan to dispose of European Jewry. To mask the true meaning behind their destruction, the Nazi Germany used certain language to disguise it. The meaning of the “Final Solution” means to annihilate the Jewish people...
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...When people think of Auschwitz it takes them back to the horrific times of World War II, when this concentration camp was used to kill and harm individuals from all over Europe. Many were brought here for their deaths or punishments for being who they are. This was done from the start of World War II and didn’t conclude until the war was finally over in 1945. There was no particular reason for their harming and lives being taken besides the fact that the Adolf Hitler wanted them gone. Auschwitz wasn’t used for a concentration camp before the war. Political prisoners were the residents at first, but once the war started that all changed. It was divided into three camps and was the biggest concentration camp used during the war. Auschwitz was...
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...great tragedy that happened during World War II. One of the main concentration camps was Auschwitz this is the largest of the Nazi death camps, the camps address is Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Gmina Oświęcim, Poland. Auschwitz was located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow, near the prewar German-Polish border in Upper Silesia, it’s an area that Nazi Germany took control of, in 1939 after invading and conquering Poland. Of the camps of Auschwitz there were three camps. The first was just the main Auschwitz, the second was Auschwitz-Birkenau and the third was Auschwitz-Monowitz .In these camps they killed 1.1 million people and most of them were Jews. These camps symbolize death in the eyes of millions of people. It was on the five death camps the most streamlined mass killings ever. Auschwitz I or the main camp housed the prisoners, the cite of medical experimentations, the cite of Block 11, which was a place of severe torture, and the Black Wall the place of execution. These people were sent here from other camps around Europe just to be executed, just because of who they were born to be. In September, the SS first tested Zyklon B as an instrument of mass murder. They were tortured and treated like slaves because of being Jewish or Polish or Roma. Anybody who was not of the Aryan race was not acceptable to be German because of the conception of one man telling them they were a disgrace. Auschwitz-Birkenau camp had the largest total prisoner...
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...after the First World War. Germany was in need of a leader to lead them through the hard times of recovering after a war, with no help from other countries. A man by the name of Adolf Hitler stepped up to the challenge. His goal was to lead Germany out of their troubles and make them a world power. Through this plan, many different courses of action were beginning to take place. As part of becoming a world power, Hitler, wanted to make Germany larger and fill it with what he considered a “perfect people”. These perfect people were those of blonde hair and blue eyes, which ironically enough, Hitler lacked. This course of action is now commonly known as The Holocaust. These perfect people also had to be pure, that means that no homosexuals, gypsies, nor Jews would be living in the land controlled by Germany. To achieve this goal, Hitler and the rest of Nazi Germany, created concentration and extermination camps to put the people that did not meet the requirement of being a perfect people. Two of these camps were named Auschwitz, which is in present day Poland, and Dachau, near Munich. The Holocaust 3 As referred to earlier, there were two different types of camps created by the Nazis. The first one is a concentration or work camp. The first camp, Dachau, was created on March of 1933 and is classified as a Class I camp. Many famous, high-level political opponents of the Nazi government were held here until the end of the war. These camps were primarily...
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...Primo Levi and his group were captured and taken in 1943 in Italy during World War II by the Nazis for participating in a resistance group called “Justice and Liberty”. They were sent to Auschwitz Buna, a factory that created synthetic rubber and latex. After eleven astonishing months surviving as a laborer and a chemist inside Auschwitz, Primo Levi and the whole camp was saved by the Russian Army. Once Levi entered the camp his personal background and physical capabilities influenced the nature of his life in Auschwitz, as it did too for many other prisoners. Before World War II began Levi had just gotten a degree in chemistry in the University of Turin. In Auschwitz the Nazis opened a chemistry unit and with his professional background as chemist, Levi was sent to work there. This meant superior living conditions thereby increasing his chances of survival especially during the harsh winter. It is clear from Levis account that a prisoner’s physical condition, mental capacities and skill set were determining factors in...
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... The Rising of a Racist Dictator-- Adolf Hitler Ray Cai Period C Mrs. Chappell 5/9/13 Ray Cai Period C Mrs. Chappell 5/9/13 The Rising of a Racist Dictator-- Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler is the leader of the Nazi Party (Nazi is the abbreviation of the Germen word “Nationalsozialismus”) (Shirer Foreword). He improved Germany to a powerful country rapidly after the World War I. Also he is one of the main sponsors of the World War II. He used to lead the Germans to the peak of the power and conquest. His Nazi spirit leaded people to the top of the anti-semitism. With his Nazi Party, Hitler killed at least five million Jews, eight million Bohemians, more than two million Polacks and six million Soviet soldiers and citizens. He started the World War II and it made the death of about twenty million soldiers and twenty million women, children and seniors (Shirer Foreword). In recent study of Hitler and his holocaust against the Jews, he rose to power and spread his anti-semitism throughout Germany and Europe, with the establishment of the concentration camps and his doctrine of hate called “The Final Solution”. I found that the disaster for human beings was not only caused by Adolf Hitler, but was also caused by the everyday people in Germany. In some ways, his “success” represented the common aspiration of the German people at that time. The Treaty of Versailles attacked the finance of Germany and it made the Mark (the German currency at that time)...
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...Schutzstaffel build up the very first concentration camp – Auschwitz. Tons of people were sent here daily. There were not only Jewish, but also Polish politicians, captured soldiers, people who had mental issues, people who against Hitler, or people who was physically challenged. Some of these people lasted to the end of the war, some did not. However, these people suffered more pain than any groups in human history did. The article Auschwitz on Holocaust Encyclopedia mentions, the Auschwitz serves for three purposes. It imprisoned Nazi’s enemies; It provided a supply of labors for development of SS owned construction - related enterprises; It serves as a site to kill a targeted group of population. The Auschwitz was originally subordinate to the SS Main...
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...Holocaust and Internment Camps “Did the United States put its own citizens in concentration camps during WWII?” by Jane McGrath is an article about the United States internment camps during World War II. “Concentration Camps,” by the United Holocaust Memorial Museum is an article about the birth, spread and result of concentration camps in Europe during World War II. While both articles are about camps that restrict the freedom of the inhabitants, the two articles and topic, people, places, and events are completely different. Jane McGrath’s article was written about internment camps and their effects. McGrath wrote about the Japanese, the majority of the people were forced to leave their homes and relocate to a camp somewhere in the Western...
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...World War II was a horrific time in history. The war was mostly fought in Europe, but it affected people across the world. When thinking of the internment camps during the war, Texas probably does not come to mind, however, Texas had the largest of any of the World War II internment camps. The camp held American civilians of German, Japanese, and Italian ancestry. In Europe, concentration camps were growing rampant and innocent people were being shipped like cattle in train cars to work there or sadly be killed. Comparing and anaylzing the differing camps between Europe and Texas, reveals that they had their differences, but there were also too many similarities to the mindest against prisoners of war. Crystal City had humble beginnings early...
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...Research Paper World War II was a global conflict from 1939 to 1945 when the war ended. Many nations around the world were involved including the great powers which later on formed two opposing military alliances : the Allies and the Axis. One of the Axis’s leaders was Adolf Hitler. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Germany. The Jews were hated the most by the Nazis because Hitler blamed the Jews from Germany defeat in World War I. This hate towards the Jews from Hitler led to “The Holocaust”. The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II. Even though we know millions of people died in this sadly event, many people survived, as well. Many years after the Holocaust one of the survivors Elie Wiesel wrote his book Night telling his life story in the Holocaust. Wiesel was the first to give the name "Holocaust", which literally means destruction by fire, to the experience of European Jews in World War II. Elie Wiesel was a Jewish from northern Transylvania annexed by Hungary. Wiesel started the most difficult journey of his life when Nazi German forces took him and his family to the concentration camps. Night is basically about Eliezer struggles with his father throughout the Holocaust and how Eliezer managed to survived. Wiesel narrates in his book Night his experience in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945 at the height of the ...
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...community” (Concentration). The Holocaust went on during the battle of World War II. The Holocaust was a tragic event that should never happen again, and here is a few things that went on during these brutal twelve years. The first concentration...
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...Chris Pilkati Philosophy 219 Professor Johnson April 24, 2013 Jewish Life during World War 2 Anti-Semitism – the hatred of Jews has traumatized Jews around the world for a long time. Most of this occurred during the holocaust, which started in around 1939, will be remembered throughout the world, not just among Jews but all people that inhabit the earth. The holocaust was severe tragedy that caused distress among all the people involved on the wrong side of it. It is known as the as the mass genocide of around six million Jews during World War 2. There was extermination by the German Nazi’s who followed their leader Adolf Hitler. On September 1, 1939 was the turning point the people because the most horrifying event was yet to happen. On this day Hitler began his reign and terror with his Autocratic leadership over the people of Germany. Adolf Hitler was on a mission to make the Nazi party the strongest power and have all people follow his reign. Hitler thought the Aryan race was the most intelligent and perfect race and sought out to exterminate all who were not. Hitler believed that the superiority of the Aryan race was being in danger of the Jewish race. Hitler also thought that the Jewish race, who was a small part of the population, were slowly taking over the country. While Germany was starting to take a turn for the worst Jewish owned companies started to take big hits as they were collapsing under financial pressure and declining profits. As part of Germany’s Reign...
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...What Was Auschwitz? Built by the Nazis as both a concentration and death camp, Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi's camps and the most streamlined mass killing center ever created. It was at Auschwitz that 1.1 million people were murdered, mostly Jews. Auschwitz has become a symbol of death, the Holocaust, and the destruction of European Jewry. Dates: May 1940 -- January 27, 1945 Camp Commandants: Rudolf Höss, Arthur Liebehenschel, Richard Baer Auschwitz Established On April 27, 1940, Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of a new camp near Oswiecim, Poland (about 37 miles or 60 km west of Krakow). The Auschwitz Concentration Camp ("Auschwitz" is the German spelling of "Oswiecim") quickly became the largest Nazi concentration and death camp. By the time of its liberation, Auschwitz had grown to include three large camps and 45 sub-camps. Auschwitz I (or "the Main Camp") was the original camp. This camp housed prisoners, was the location of medical experiments, and the site of Block 11 (a place of severe torture) and the Black Wall (a place of execution). At the entrance of Auschwitz I stood the infamous sign that stated "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("work makes one free"). Auschwitz I also housed the Nazi staff that ran the entire camp complex. Auschwitz II (or "Birkenau") was completed in early 1942. Birkenau was built approximately 1.9 miles (3 km) away from Auschwitz I and was the real killing center of the Auschwitz death camp. It was in Birkenau where the dreaded selections...
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...studying the Holocaust must know the factual background before some of the more technical studies can be understood. As well as general works we have included books of specialized interest concerning the matters about which we at The Holocaust History Project are most frequently asked. Many of these books deal with more than one subject, but in the interest of brevity we have not cited a book more than once. General history of the Holocaust The Holocaust was not just an event. It was a process that continued for over a decade and involved millions of people. No single book could cover every aspect of the Holocaust. Those listed below will give the reader a general idea of the historical realities of the Holocaust. Lucy Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York (1975) Martin Gilbert,...
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