...Concentration Camps during The Holocaust 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, and Ravensbruck. It all started in 1933 when Hitler came to power in Germany. Adolf Hitler was a very strong minded individual that liked everything to go his way, and for what he believed in. Germany was already a very racial country, and judged people strongly on their religious beliefs, and their political communities. The Nazis, also known as the National Socialist German Worker's Party, planned to murder the Jewish people. They called this plot, "the final solution." The Holocaust was a devastating time during World War Two,that changed the lives of many people all over the world. The name holocaust comes from the Greek word "holokauston", meaning sacrifice from fire. The holocaust killed many groups of people such as the Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, the disabled for persecution, but mostly the Jews. When Hitler first gained power, he formed an advanced police and military force to smother anyone who criticized his authority. With...
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...During the reign of the Nazi regime they were able to establish almost 20,000 camps throughout Europe. With so many camps spread out across Europe each one had its own purpose. There are two sets of systems when looking at camps that were put in place by the Nazis. Each one had its own purpose; death camps were established to commit murder on a wide scale. Concentration camps were utilized for punishment or as transit between other camps. One will see the names and different types of camps that were established by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The first part one will see is the concentration camps. They played a very important role in the suppression of the Jewish people and others. Within these camps some were set as force labor to support...
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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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...The Holocaust The Holocaust was a tragic event that lasted from 1933-1945 for a total of twelve years. The group of people that was the cause of this was known as the Nazis, their leader’s name was Adolf Hitler. He gained power of Chancellor in 1933, the first year of the Holocaust (Holocaust). Hitler had violence in his past, so it was no surprise when he wanted to cause more harm and violence to others. “He thought that the Jews were an “alien” threat to the German racial purity and 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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...Adolf Hitler was a very strong minded individual that liked everything to go his way, and for what he believed in. Germany was already a very racial country, and judged people strongly on their religious beliefs, and their political communities. The Nazis, also known as the National Socialist German Worker's Party, planned to murder the Jewish people. They called this plot, “the final solution.” The Holocaust was a devastating time during World War Two,that changed the lives of many people all over the world. The name holocaust comes from the Greek word “holokauston”, meaning sacrifice from fire. The holocaust killed many groups of people such as the Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled for persecution, but mostly the Jews. When Hitler first gained power, he formed an advanced police and military force to smother anyone who criticized his authority. With this force, Hitler developed the first concentration camp, Dachau. A concentration camp was used to work and starve prisoners to death. Later Dachau became a huge concentration camp to exterminate Jews. Hitler made life miserable for Jews. On April of 1933, the Nazis initiated by boycotting all Jewish ran businesses. The Nuremberg Laws issued in September of 1935, made it so Jews were excluded from most public life. The law included exposing the German Jews of their citizenship, and outlawed marriages and extramarital sex between Jews and Germans. This law was the start of all...
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...Life during the Holocaust The Holocaust was a horrible event and had many tragedies and losses of family and friends. This event starts in 1933 where Hitler rises to power, and ends in 1945 where Hitler is defeated and the holocaust has ended. There are many topics about the holocaust that people would want to know, but this topic is a crucial and important one. The topic is Life during the Holocaust where we learn about how Jewish people live during the holocaust and what happened to them in the concentration camps. A very shocking moment in people’s life is when they are kids and they live during the holocaust. Children in the holocaust were beaten, tortured and killed in either a concentration camp or death camp. If they did survive they would have died of hard labor, starvation or diseases that were spread in camps. A total of one and a half million Jewish children were killed during the holocaust. During the holocaust children had to wear patches in the shape of a yellow star which is known as the Star of David. One comment from a Jewish child during the holocaust in Belgium named Beatrice Muchman defined it as when “…Having to wear the yellow star was a moment when deep fear and misery finally took hold” (www.ushmm.org). The holocaust striped children of all their memories and dreams in the future. The Jewish children couldn’t go to school because of the laws that were created for instance on law from the holocaust was Children with either mixed Jewish blood, Half Jewish...
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...The Holocaust was a mad murder of Jews under the German Nazi rule during 1933-45. The Bangladesh genocide was the deliberate and systematic destruction, in a whole or in a part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. The Holocaust and Bangladesh genocide are similar and different. The Holocaust and Bangladesh genocide are similar and different in three different ways; lives lost, ethnic identities, and the effect it had after. The Holocaust started on January 30th, 1933 and ended May 8th, 1945. The Nazi were the ones responsible for this tragedy. The victims of these concentration camps were, Jews, slaves, ethnic poles of color, disabled or mentally ill, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, and Spanish republicans. Anyone who was...
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...The Holocaust: Suggested Reading There is a wealth of information about the Holocaust. So much has been written, in fact, that it can be difficult to determine where to start. This reading list is collected from recommendations from other members of The Holocaust History Project. It is not a complete bibliography but represents our opinion as to what are the most useful starting places for research. Since this list concentrates on works that are easily available and useful to a person unacquainted with the history of the Holocaust, many excellent books which are rare or out of print are not listed. Another class of books that are not included is works that are controversial because of their contents or the unusual theories they propose. Some of these are excellent works, others are not. But we feel that the reader for whom this list was compiled would not have the knowledge needed to evaluate these discussions of the legitimate controversies about the Holocaust. Just as a medical student must learn anatomy before he or she is taught surgery, someone 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...
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...Holocaust and the Survivor Stories The Holocaust was a time when millions of Jews were killed by the Nazis. Nazis who came to power on January 1933 in Germany believed that the Germans were good and great but the Jews were useless and low. In front of them they were aliens and bad for that community. The Greek word Holocaust means “sacrifice by fire”. National Socialist Government of Germany started the concentration camps. Nazis deported many Jews from Germany. The population of the Jews was about nine million or more. The Holocaust was one of the worst events that happened in the world’s history and many people sacrificed their lives. Nazis recommended the idea of killing children who are from dangerous groups and wanted to protect their community from getting harmed by them. The Germans killed over millions of children some of them were Jews and some were Romani. Some Jewish and non-Jewish adolescents were used as forced labor and this way...
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...The Holocaust It all started in 1933 when Hitler came to power in Germany. Adolf Hitler was a very strong minded individual that liked everything to go his way, and for what he believed in. Germany was already a very racial country, and judged people strongly on their religious beliefs, and their political communities. The Nazis, also known as the National Socialist German Worker's Party, planned to murder the Jewish people. They called this plot, “the final solution.” The Holocaust was a devastating time during World War Two,that changed the lives of many people all over the world. The name holocaust comes from the Greek word “holokauston”, meaning sacrifice from fire. The holocaust killed many groups of people such as the Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled for persecution, but mostly the Jews. When Hitler first gained power, he formed an advanced police and military force to smother anyone who criticized his authority. With this force, Hitler developed the first concentration camp, Dachau. A concentration camp was used to work and starve prisoners to death. Later Dachau became a huge concentration camp to exterminate Jews. Hitler made life miserable for Jews. On April of 1933, the Nazis initiated by boycotting all Jewish ran businesses. The Nuremberg Laws issued in September of 1935, made it so Jews were excluded from most public life. The law included exposing the German Jews of their citizenship, and outlawed marriages...
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...The Holocaust. What comes to mind when this single event is mentioned? Tragedy, fear, death, sadness? For many, the thought of the Holocaust sounds like it occurred a lifetime ago. However, the atrocities which the Jews faced transpired less than seventy-five years ago. The Holocaust is not another shrapnel of ancient antiquity to be disserted – it is a chapter of modern history which must be deliberated and reflected upon. For this time, history cannot repeat itself. The nefarious concentration camps had their own social climate, as Jews braced themselves every day for the same endless battle of survival and did anything they had to do in order to outlive their relentless enemy – death. The story of how countless people were ripped from their homes and thrown into death camps is told firsthand, by the autobiographical novel, Night, written by Holocaust survivor Eliezer Wiesel. According to Wiesel’s recollection, it all commenced when German officers began to enter Jewish towns and occupy them. There was talk of German tensions, but almost everyone was indifferent. Before they knew it, Jews were being placed into ghettos, curfews were being imposed on them, and they were having more rights taken away from them. Anti-Semitism became...
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...The Holocaust was traumatizing event in the 1900s. It was a life changing event for the Jews. This time period went down in history. Rudolf Hoss, estimated during the Nuremberg Trial that nearly three million people died while being held hostage in death camps. Also, ninety percent of the ones killed were known as Jews. In death camps the people who were known as “different” suffered from cruel treatment, harsh environment and immoral medical experiments. Well, we all know Hitler had millions of people killed in death camps. It seemed, due to the history that Hitler was a racist man. Hitler disliked any other race that were not considered his race. “That if they eliminated the people who stood in their way and the degenerates and racially inferior, they-the great Germans would prosper” (Schwartz). So, Hitler wanted to kill a lot of...
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...Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night tells the story of the Holocaust, the mass genocide of the Jewish people and important event in WWII. The memoir Night begins in the polish town of Sighet. The story is About Elie Wiesel, a Jewish boy whose family gets deported to the concentration camp with other Jews from his town. Upon arrival his Mother and Sister, Tzipora are separated and executed by the Nazis in the Auschwitz death camp. Following that, after months of work, with the advancing allied front, the prisoners were forced to march all night to the Gleiwitz concentration camp. As Elie’s story continues, after being stuffed inside a camp barrack for 3 days without food or water, the Prisoners were let out for a selection, Elie’s Father was chosen to...
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...The Holocaust Imagine waking up in the middle of the night, to hear the sounds of screaming and thrashing. You look out your window to see Nazis rummaging down the streets taking every Jew in sight. This exact event occurred on the Night of the Broken Glass. Jews lost everything that day and they were sent off to concentration camps (Holocaust). The Holocaust ripped families and lives apart. Where lived a family of six now was an empty home, a lost and lonely casualty of the war. The Nazis treated the Jew’s horribly, although the Liberators of the Holocaust saved the Jews. History of concentration camps through the Holocaust shows how the deadly technology changed. At first concentration camps were made for captives of the...
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...wooden boards. The tiny amount of bread and water that comes through the slot in the door. This is what it was like for Helmuth in the concentration camp. The Boy who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a book based on the story of Helmuth´s life during, and leading up to him being in a concentration camp. Throughout the story, Helmuth sees how much Hitler is hiding from them. Nobody is allowed to do anything that’s not German. Also, he starts to see how the Jews are being treated differently. So, Helmuth illegally listens to a different radio station to get the truth and he makes leaflets with his friends, Karl and Rudi, to give people information about what is really going on with the war. Helmuth gets caught and put in a concentration camp where he later is killed. The Holocaust was a very dark time where people were in need of a hero....
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