The holocaust happened between 1933 to 1945, this event was lead by Hitler and killed many jews. Many of the ‘opposite’ side to the Nazi government were taken to concentration camps, these were spread around Germany, they had horrible conditions and caused much trauma to the families and people who were in it, these were caused by the types of activities that were happening over there. In this essay, I will be talking about Why, when, where, who and what are concentration camps, the types of activities were held and the long term impacts of the holocaust on the jewish people.

Concentration camps greatly impact the jewish people, concentration camps were camps in which people were detained, usually under extremely harsh conditions, where no …show more content…
They were undernourished and mistreated, the SS authorities did not take into consideration the safety of the prisoners at forced labor. From the beginning of the war, part of nazi policy was to murder on masse, especially jews and these camps were used for these. Mass murders was when German Nazis would take jewish people to river banks and were lined up, they were then shot and fell down into the river, this can be seen in figure 2.This policy later grew into Hitler’s “Final solution”, this was the complete extermination of Jews.It began with Einsatzgruppen death squads in the East, which killed approximately 1,000,000 people in numerous massacres, and continued in concentration camps where prisoners were actively denied proper food and health care. It culminated in the construction of extermination camps, government facilities whose entire purpose was the systematic murder and disposal of massive numbers of people. The 6 camps who would carry out these masse murders were; Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau, these would first use gas vans and then gas chambers. They all used a standard method of extermination: carbon monoxide from large tank engines was released into sealed chambers. Figure 3 shows a gas chamber used in the Chelmno concentration camp, there were 3 gas chambers in this camp, these killed an estimated 152 000 to 340 000. The victims were stripped of their clothing and crowded into the gas chambers where they died of suffocation within a short time. The corpses were removed by Jewish slave laborers and thrown into large pits. The corpses were later burned in an attempt to destroy any evidence left behind. The entire process of murder took only a few hours and the camps would process and murder numerous transports in the same day. Only a small percentage of Jewish people were actually chosen for labor, they