...During the time of World War II there were two types of camps made during this time. One was Internment camps for Japanese Americans and another was Concentration camps made for Jews. Internment camps may have been a harsh but they were not as bad as concentration camps. In Internment camps they wouldn't beat you for making a mistake, they let people go to school, and had good portions of meals. On the other hand, concentration camps made the prisoners work in terrible conditions, provided insignificant living conditions, and would beat and kill the Jews for no reason. Working in the concentration camp were pretty bad if you were a prisoner. The SS officer would never give any pity for the young, elderly, woman, or man. The prisoners would have to work all day till the break of dawn, in all types of weather. Let it be cold or hot, all they would have were their striped cloths. The things they worked on were war efforts, expansion of the camp and new building for the camp....
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...Concentration Camps The concentration camps were a major part in the second world war. Here in these camps millions died at the hands of Hitler’s ideology. These innocent people were put into camps without trial for the idea Hitler had of a “pure race’’. Origins of the Camps The first camps were originally set in Germany as detention centers for anyone who did not agree with Nazi agenda. These people were referred to as “enemies of the state” once the Nazis controlled Europe. This happened once Germans crossed Austria territory and the German Army invaded Poland. These camps were the first of the 20,000 used to cause so much death, loss, pain, and suffering (theholocaustexplained.org p?) . Notorious Camps Some of the most well known camps are such as Auschwitz, Belzec, Burgen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Chelmno, Dachau, and Dora Mittlebau. These camps were known for the death of millions of people. They were apart of the “Final Solution” program that was created for the destruction of the Jewish race. Prisoners’ Day...
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...The Horrors of the concentrations camp is something unbelievable the crimes of the Nazi soldiers is unspeakable, they would kill, tormented and even fool around the lives of merciless people. The flesh of little children man or women burning besides each other and being able to withstand their flesh melting off their skin or even it being infuse with each other’s flesh is a crime beyond redemptions. They would force young children to adult at an early age or face the fiery cages of hell and make them work until exhaustion. The horrific devils would pile up babies the ages of 1-5 or even older and throw them into the gas chambers and face the agony of flames. Every Jewish person had to overcome this tragedy and were forced to endure the concentrations...
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...Auschwitz concentration camp was the largest and most brutal camp of its kind. About two of every three jews were killed. Many people in concentration camps were there because political views. Auschwitz I the main camp was the first camp to be built near Oswiecim. In an abandon polish army barracks construction of the camp began in 1940. SS officers used forced prisoner labor to rapidly expand the camp in the first year alone prisoners cleared a area of about 40 square kilometers. The very first prisoners at Auschwitz I were prisoners transferred from Sachsenhausen a concentration camp in germany where they were held for repeat criminal offences. One reason Auschwitz I was created was to kill small targeted groups of the population. Like...
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...Jews who were children were still thrown into the gas chambers even when they refused to do the work.“ At Auschwitz alone, more than 2 million people were murdered in a process resembling a large-scale industrial operation. A large population of Jewish and non-Jewish inmates worked in the labor camp there; though only Jews were gassed, thousands of others died of starvation or disease.” Some of them were Gypsies,gays,and ect… "As a Jew who has lost so many relatives in the Holocaust, they looked like the showers that the Jews were forced to take before entering the gas chambers," Between 1933 and 1945, more than 11 million men, women, and children were murdered in the Holocaust. Approximately six million of these were Jews. Over 1.1 million children died during the Holocaust. Young children were particularly targeted by the Nazis to be murdered during the Holocaust. They posed a unique threat because if they lived, they would grow up to parent a new generation of Jews. Many children suffocated in the crowded cattle cars on the way to the camps. Those who survived were immediately taken to the gas...
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...during World War II. One of the largest female established camps was the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Poland. The Gross-Rosen camp was known for its prisoners, duties, and generals. The Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp had lots of people pass through the camp, some lived, some didn't. The Gross-Rosen concentration camp was established in 1940. It was a sub-camp of Sachsenhausen, but in 1944 it became one of biggest women concentration camps in Poland. “As of Jan 1, 1945, the camp had 26,000 women” (Gross-Rosen 1). The largest group of female prisoners in the entire CCS(Concentration Camp System). Male Jews did not arrive at the camp until 1944 in fault of the evacuation of Auschwitz. Soviet forces approached the camp in January of 1945. A Month later, the SS evacuated the main camp. Which sent 44,000 Jews to Bergen-Belsen, Dachau ,Buchenwald, and more camps still under German control. Even though most people past away in the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, many survived and those are the people we honor today along with all of the other people who survived the Holocaust....
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...co-exist?’ Introduction This paper will approach three main areas. First: 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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...Nicole Heaton September 22, 2014 Sociology 100.108 Dr. Christine Harrop-Stein Research Paper 1 The Holocaust In this paper, I will be presenting many facts that show what the Holocaust is and why it occurred. The Holocaust was an organized, persecution, and murder of approximately six million Jewish people including 1.5 million Jewish children. The Holocaust took place in Europe by the Nazi regime and its collaborators that happened between 1933-1945. During that time, Jews were known as an inferior race. They were thought to be a threat to the German community. After years of having the Nazis rule in Germany, Hitler decided his “final solution”. This solution included mass killing centers constructed in the concentration camps of Poland. In the article “Elie Wiesel Biography” by The Biography.com, the author’s main thesis is that the Holocaust was a very traumatic event that caused an eye-opener for humans about how cruel humans can be. This article talks about Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor who is now a Nobel-Prize winning writer, teacher and activist known for the memoir Night. In his books he discusses his experiences of surviving the Holocaust. At the age of 15, Wiesel and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the ...
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...Christopher Russell Mrs. Schreiber English 3 4 March 2015 Holocaust Research Paper The Holocaust was one of humanity’s worst catastrophes in history. No one thought that something so evil could happen in the 20th century in one of the most educated country in the world. When Hitler’s Nazi Party took over Germany, anti-semitism was encouraged. Having blond hair, blue eyes made someone an “Aryan”, this is what Nazis thought was supposed to be the master race. The Nazis blamed the Jews, mentally and physically handicapped, and other supposedly inferior races of Germany’s downfall. They believed that the handicapped were “useless eaters” and the Jews were inferior creatures. They believed that if they cleansed themselves of these “diseases” that...
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...practitioners to date. Though not well known, Albert Einstein is one of the more famous, present day Jewish professionals. Born in Germany, He was the eldest of two children born to Hermann and Pauline Einstein. Mostly known for his “Theory of Relativity”, which challenged all ideas of space and time once set by Sir Isaac Newton, Albert took an early interest in science. At age five, when he was intrigued by a compass’s invisible forces, and again at age twelve, when he found a book on geometry. At sixteen, he wrote his first scientific paper titled: “The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields.". In which he questioned “If the light were a wave, then the light beam should appear stationary, like a frozen wave. In reality, the light beam is moving.” This paradox would dominate his thinking for the next ten years. In 1905, while working in a patent office, Einstein submitted a paper for his doctorate and had four other papers published. It was four articles that would present grant Einstein his academic recognition, and where the famous “E=mc2” equation first appeared. The physics community initially dispelled Einstein until the founder of quantum theory Max Planck, garnered his attention. Einstein’s success continued to rise equally as fast as the Nazi regime began to take power in Germany. In 1920, Hitler and the Nazi regime began to denounce Einstein’s theories as “Jewish Physics”. They gained control of the German government and prevented any Jew from holding...
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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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...as soon as possible. After ignorantly insisting for a new phone your mother then informs you that your grandmother has severely fallen and it is not looking to good for her and she might not make it. Taken back you instantly realize how selfish and ungrateful you were acting. Sometimes people get caught up in materialistic things and lose sight of the true meaning of life. It is moments like these that bring us back to reality and remind us not to get caught up in the little things in life. With that in mind, Dr. Viktor Frankl does an exceptional job in Man’s Search for Meaning portraying the true meaning of life, which more often than not in our materialistic world many people lose sight of. Through his research and first hand experience in the concentration camps, Dr. Viktor Frankl is able to teach us that it is not the...
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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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...State HIST 121 Term Paper 23 April 2014 Children of the Holocaust This research essay is about the devastating and gruesome incidents pertaining to the children of the holocaust. This essay will cover the unbelievable lives these children had to live and the horrible pain they had to undergo threw this war of extermination. They suffered losses of family, friends, and many became orphaned or homeless. The holocaust took the lives of about 6 million Jewish men, women, and children. There were about 1.6 million Jewish children consisting from infants to teens living in Europe around the start of World War 2. Only about 11 percent of this range of children made it through the war. A lot of the parents chose to hide their children so they would have a better chance of surviving. The Jewish children were extremely discriminated against and were terribly affected by the Holocaust. Jewish children, along with their families, experienced persecution of revocation of citizenship, reduction of food ration, confiscations, deprivation of schooling and restricted access to public institutions. Many people could not figure out why the Jewish children were hated, or why they had to be prisoners. These children were left homeless and many orphaned. They had seen the Nazis murder their parents, siblings, relatives, and close friends. They had to endure starvation, sickness, and awful labor and other brutal acts until they were sent to gas chambers at the camps. Hiding a child was a...
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...Prisoner research is a debatable topic on ethics and morals. It can be viewed as a negative practice mostly because of its history. During World War II, prisoners were forced into concentration camps by the Nazis to be tested on. The testing done at these concentration camps were a horrific scene to any of who liberated them. The Nazis weren't the only ones who tested on prisoners, but also it caused controversy in the U.S. These are considered among the most egregious cases of widespread abuse of human subjects of research in modern history (Stone pg. 6). Because of this prisoner research is viewed just like it was 70 years ago, except it hasn't changed too much since. Prisoner research is thought to be humane today, but that's just what the public know. Prisoners should not take part in medical research because they are a vulnerable population; they may feel coerced to...
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