...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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...Haley Connell Evans 5th Hour 29April2013 Auschwitz; the World’s Largest Death Center “Before describing daily life in the concentration camps, it is necessary to take a broader look at the entire Nazi camp system. In all, there were more than nine thousand concentration camps: transit camps, prisoner-of-war camps, slave-labor camps, camps for “work-education,” camps for political prisoners, camps for police detention, camps for children whose parents were inmates of labor camps, and camps for killing. Six of these camps were primarily killing centers: Chelmno, Sobibor, Belzec, Treblinka, Majdenek, and Auschwitz. Auschwitz is the largest death center the world has ever seen” (Soumerai 171). Auschwitz was a terrible concentration camp because many people died and many people are still haunted by the memories. The concentration camp known as Auschwitz was established on May 20, 1940. Auschwitz was divided into three camps: Auschwitz 1, for resistance fighters; Buna, which was for slave laborers; and Birkenau, which housed the crematoria, medical laboratories, gas chambers, and barracks for the waiting victims (Soumerai 171). Built on approximately eighteen square miles of land that is located in Poland, the camp was “owned” by the Reich SS. In all, Auschwitz comprised three large camps. It was guarded by 6,000 men in twelve companies of SS Death’s Head Units (Soumerai 174). Auschwitz 1, a concentration camp for political prisoners and non-Jews, contained two- and...
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...Outline Introduction/Thesis: I. Holocaust at Auschwitz A. Concentration Camp 1. Life in camp 2. Countless murders 3. Rescue Conclusion/Closing: The Holocaust at Auschwitz By Writing 1 Introduction The story of the Holocaust at Auschwitz is a hard and very heart breaking story to tell. Millions Jews were murdered by the hands of the Nazis. The train arrived in the middle of the night, so we were greeted by very bright lights shining down on us. We were greeted by soldiers, SS men, as well as women. We were greeted by dogs and whips, by shouting and screaming, orders to try to empty the train, by confusion... There is no way to describe your first coming to Auschwitz. Hitler established the first concentration camp soon after he came to power in 1933. The system grew to include about 100 camps divided into two types concentration camps for slave labor in nearby factories and death camps for the systematic extermination of undesirables including Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally retarded and others. No words can really describe the scenes that took place at Auschwitz once a Jew entered the gates of a camp. The SS would beat the Jews with wipes, rebar, butts of their weapons anything the SS could get their hands on to beat them to death. Do to overcrowding these beatings...
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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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...Some of the most crippling images of Auschwitz are the horrible scenes of the arrival of a transport of Jews to that concentration camp. To one side lay torture but a slight chance of survival. To the other side, lay instant death in the gas chambers. The frightening figure making this decision was, frequently, Josef Mengele, one of the doctors assigned to Auschwitz. It is now apparent that he must have started young and tortured animals when he was much younger in age. During WWII, the holocaust heavily impacted millions of lives, especially the people who were brutally experimented on by Dr. Joseph Mengele, who was not a simple human being. Many died and those who survived lived their painful lives with severe medical problems. The Angel of Death was created when he went to the University of Frankfurt to study medicine and then went to the army. Both of which were an extremely important part in his sadistic experiments hence the medical background and the love for “Nazism. After the war, Mengele was so scared of all the bad things he had done as well as his experiments that he fled Germany after they lost?? What Joseph Mengele did at Auschwitz, left his victims scarred both physically and mentally. Dr. Joseph Mengele was brought to this earth by Karl and Walburga Mengele in the Bavarian village of Gunzburg. He was the oldest of three children and was followed by his two younger brothers. From all accounts Karl Mengele was a harsh and distant man, one whose main concern...
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...definition, however when put it into action the idea is much more complicated and complex. Diversity is a similar word that has a very simple definition but a deep complexity when put into action. How is it as people that we can take very simple positive words and make them very complicated and bleak, our nature makes us so. The idea that is brought forth in Anne Sexton’s “After Auschwitz” is very dark and angry, her meaning behind that poem I believe was to depict the human race as we are, as animals. People would prefer to think that good outweighs the bad however, when genocide is concerned that is simply not possible. The complexity of this issue will keep a person up at night, after reading...
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...to place music of the orchestras of Auschwitz and Terezin in a historical, sociological and cultural context. Second: to investigate how music was a form of healing and a form of torture. Thirdly: to study the remarkable lives of Viktor Ullmann and Alma Rose (Gustave Mahler’s niece). Viktor Ullmann was in the Terezin camp in which he composed a great deal, some of which this essay will discuss. Alma Rose was in Auschwitz and survived. Both composed music during their time in the different concentration camps. They found healing in music in the traumatic and horrifying time that was the Holocaust....
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...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 to incarcerate communists, social Democrats, trade union leaders, spies, resistance fighters, religious dissidents, common criminals, Gypsy men, homosexuals, asocials, and anyone else who...
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...the tremble in our hands and the shiver down our spines. It’s that feeling of panic, of unease which can infiltrate and consume the human mind like nothing else. It is darkness, it is distress, it is fear; and it is our fears which ultimately shape our attitudes. But fear in itself is more than just an emotion, it is rather a state of being which, when evoked at a high level, can influence and shape not only the way we think and feel but consequently, the way we react to the world. However, an individual within a fear stricken context has the ability to overcome this fear if they develop the right attitude towards it and this can ultimately allow them control over themselves and those around them. George Orwell’s novel 1984 and the poem Auschwitz-Birkenau by Patrick Simpson explore the ability fear has to control thought and action and the way in which individuals have the ability to achieve control over themselves and those within their context if they overcome this fear. 1984 presents to us a futuristic, dystopian society under what is an extreme communist rule. George Orwell explores the way in which fear can control the movement of an individual. In this text we are presented with a society of people who have had a spark of fear ignited within them. Fear to stray from the party, fear to think separately from the party’s philosophies, fear to act out. And this fear is ultimately what shapes the way they react to the world and their attitudes and actions. In the back of their...
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...osef Mengele, the notorious doctor of Auschwitz, the ''Angel of Death'', performed horrible pseudo-experiments all in search of Aryan perfection. His Nazi Genetic idea was: If Aryan woman were assured of giving birth to twins- with blond hair and blue eyes- then the future of the Aryan race would be safe. Mengele believed that twins, specifically were best for his research and with his firm background of genetics and interest in racial variations already secure, Auschwitz provided him with the perfect set-up for further research, free of all medical ethics. Mengeles research in Auschwitz started with the selection process, for which he is infamous. Standing on the ramp, a small flick of his finger or riding crop would determine a persons...
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...Spent two and half years in Auschwitz Food rations were calculated precisely in a way that people would live for about six weeks, and whoever lived longer was stealing Inmates caught trying to escape were hanged Winkels of different colors were used to specify which class prisoners belonged to: Jehovah’s witnesses= purple, homosexuals=pink, political prisoners and poles=red, criminals=green, and refusers to work in the Third Reich=black All priests, judges, and lawyers were brutally beaten and killed upon arrival Every single prisoner was ridden with lice, especially those in the hospital Only one parcel per year, received during Christmas time, but could not contain food A healthy stomach was vital- when sick, a prisoner had...
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... an event that not one Jewish person wants to ever recall upon; they would experience such labor that could lead to their possible death, while undergoing excruciating pain both mentally and physically. In addition, as a Jewish they would live day by day trying to survive on meals that wouldn’t suffice their hunger, eventually leading to extreme malnourishment. Nevertheless, they were burned and exterminated from a series of camps controlled by the “all superior Nazi’s,” as a cause of their inability to manage the labor tasks they were given as a part of their daily lives. However, one Jewish lady Helga Weissova was able to escape during the time of horror and the extermination of the Jewish race. Helga Hoskova Weissova was born 1929 in the largest capital which is Prague. Helga later departed from her home and was transferred to Terezin at the age of 12 living her daily life there for 3 years before she was transferred to Auschwitz. As a young naive child, Helga wasn’t aware of the political issues and beliefs the Nazis came across towards the Jews. Helga had a passion of drawing where she would draw the world around her as she gave a broader spectrum of what she was experiencing during the Holocaust. As Helga began to grow and develop she wasn’t able to fully experience the ”normal childhood” as opposed to a child who wasn’t Jewish. Myers 2 At a very young age, she had experienced that the world around her was slowly coming to an end, because the Nazis began to take her rights and others away...
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...several months later, and explained the brutal treatment that they encountered, but most people did not believe him. 1944 the Nazis gained power in Hungry, and all Jews were crowded into a small ghetto. After a while the Nazis started to deport all the Jews in the ghetto to Auschwitz. On the train the Jews were packed in, with almost no air to breathe, everyone was thirsty and hungry. After some days of traveling the Jews arrived in Czech, and a German officer takes over the train. The officer warned everyone that to give of their valuables or get shot. The train doors were then nailed to prevent people from escaping. Madame Schächter, was the first person to go crazy on the train, she starts to yell about a fire, which is not there. After some time a few boys beat her to silent as her son watches in fear, but the next night she started to yell once again. The Jews arrive in Auschwitz, but it was not as they have been told. They were told although it is a labor camp; the families will be kept as one. As the train traveled through the barb wire they see chimneys of smoke, and there is terrible smell, which they later find out that it is human flesh. The camp that they arrived in is the processing camp for Auschwitz. At Birkenau the Nazis make a selection form those who will live and those who will die. Some of the elders in the camp convince Ellie and his father to lie about their age, in order to stay alive. Ellie and his father were able to stay together, in the work camp. Seeing...
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...HUL 231: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE History and its representation in literature * The Holocaust Name: Pooja Nath Entry No: 2009CH10087 Group No: 1 Contents | Chapter | Page Number | | | | 1. | Literature from the Holocaust: An Introduction | 3 | 2. | Piecing Together History: Stories of Survival | 4 | | Map: Nazi Concentration Camps | 4 | 2.a | Before the war | 4 | 2.b | During the war | 5 | 2.c | After the war | 6 | 3 | Maus: Graphics and Symbolism | 6 | 4 | Comparative Analysis: Understanding the Characters | | 4.a | Sophie and Vladek | 8 | 4.b | Sophie and Anja | 9 | 4.c | Nathan Landau and Holocaust survivors | 10 | 4.d | Stingo and Art as narrators | 10 | 5 | Bibliography | 11 | Literature from the Holocaust: An Introduction “The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human.” Adolf Hitler Official figures tell that six million Jews, two million Poles, one million Serbs, five million Russians were exterminated during World War II – the actual toll of executions by the Nazi Government, can never be estimated. Holocaust was a period of unspeakable horror and infernal ramifications which were not only felt across Europe but also in places like Laos. When I began this term paper, it was meant to be a study of the literature pertaining to this period of Nazi regime in Poland during World War II. What it turned out to be was a account of implacable and starkly real evil. A subject that has inspired countless movies...
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...Dennis Nguyen Ms. Bell English 2P, Period 5 6 January 2016 Premature Revelation to Maturity The span of one’s guiltlessness is temporary, and the outcomes of losing grasp of it can greatly influence them. In Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, he relives his experiences in which he’s compiled during the Holocaust that the German Nazis were held accountable for. On May 1944, towards the end of the Second World War, he at the age of fifteen, his family, and other Jews are forced by the Nazis to detach from their homes to attend their first concentration camp called Auschwitz. It was situated in Poland and his mother and youngest sister will die there while he and his father carry on their lives with the only priority of survival in their minds; little do they know, a dark future awaits them. It is in camp Buchenwald, located in Germany, to where Elie and his father transfer in the progressing years, that Nazi brutality becomes more conspicuous. This leaves him the last motive to remain alive, his father. As Elie continues to inhabit the surreal and agonizing environment with tortuous occurrences at every step, he finds it difficult to survive as an adolescent which leads to his quick transition into adulthood; thus leaving his state of innocence. Because of Elie’s loss of innocence, he is impacted by having his relationship with God suffer, being desensitized to deaths and atrocities, and reversing roles with his father. One way that Elie is impacted by his loss of...
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