...19 March 2012 Life during the Holocaust: Life in the ghettos, Dr. Mengele’s medical care, and food in the camps Genocide during WWII was unbelievably cruel and awful. The Holocaust was sure to be remembered from this time period and have permanently engraved horrible memories into those who survived. During the Holocaust many victims suffered while living in the ghettos, soon to reach the camps they also suffered there as well. The encounters with Dr. Mengele were unbearable too. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night is very important especially the fact that it accurately describes what really happened during the Holocaust. One of these many reasons is that Wiesel was an actual survivor of the Holocaust. His descriptions of his experiences in the ghettos, encounters with Dr. Mengele and his trouble with small amounts of food in the camp greatly make us only able to imagine what he went through. Elie Wiesel in his memoir Night, along with other victims of the Holocaust was faced with many obstacles while living in the ghettos, encounters with Dr. Mengele and forced labor. Living in the ghettos was the first step in being dehumanized. Elie Wiesel describes these experiences in his memoir Night. One example of these experiences that were described by Elie was that decrees were to be made in the Jewish ghettos. “We were no longer allowed to go into restaurants or cafes, attend the synagogue and must be in at sic o’ clock.”(Wiesel 9). These are for the Jews in the ghettos prior to full...
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...Despite the unethical nature and questionable scientific validity of the nazi medical experiments, the results should still be accessible for scientific gain. During the Holocaust the medical experiments that were conducted were unethical. One reason being is that, the scientists hired to conduct the various medical experiments made an oath in the beginning of their career. This was called the Hippocratic oath, arguably the most important parts of the medical profession. At the time of graduation, doctors recite this oath as a promise of what they will give back to the practice of medicine. One particular part of the oath that the doctors have to recite is that “[they] will use treatment to help the sick accordingly to [their] ability and judgement, but never with a view to injury or wrongdoing” (The Hippocratic 1). By conducting horrific experiments such as internal irrigation where “the frozen victim would have water heated to a near blistering temperature forcefully irrigated into the stomach, bladder, and intestines” (Medical 1), the doctors violated the trust placed in them by the medical profession and humanity, making their data unethical. Also, the people chosen to be test subjects were treated no more than objects at the doctor’s disposal. Eva Kor, a Holocaust survivor, states that her among thousands of others were “being treated like human guinea pigs” (I was 1). The Nazis dehumanized them by constantly treating like animals. In a different interview Eva Kor...
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...The time was a very traumatic time for many jews, but one thing that happened during the time sticks out the most, his name is Josef Mengele. Josef Mengele is an infamous party during the holocaust, he spent his time in Auschwitz experimenting on the prisoners. Dr. Mengele became very intrigued in experimenting on twins. According to “Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine”, “The twins were allowed to keep their hair for the first several days of the examination. After All the living data was taken the twins would be killed by a single injection of chloroform in the heart”(Medical 1). This quote shows how dangerous human experimentation can truly be in the wrong hands. The holocaust is a perfect example on how human testing can be unethical and just plain inhumane. After this three weeks of tortuous medical examinations they were taken two the dissection laboratory. According to “Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine,“Using two doctors, each twin was simultaneously given an injection in the heart, taking their lives. They were dissected and their organs were sent to the Institute of Biological Racial and Evolutionary Research Berlin”(Medical 1). This quote is exemplifies what true horrors human testing can be in the hands of a scientist. Dr. Mengele has made many experiments on Auschwitz prisoners such as: Freezing Hypothermia,...
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...When the Holocaust started, no one believed it would be as horrid as it was. No one believed the rumors they were hearing until it was happening to them. Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, and elderly people went through traumatic experiences and many were murdered in huge masses. The children of the Holocaust and the children of Holocaust survivors, however, suffered more physically and emotionally because they were given away, tortured, left alone, and put through many hardships. When the Nazis came into power in 1933, Jews were targeted from the very beginning. Laws were implemented and they had a severe impact on the lives of children. The laws restricted the number of Jewish children that could attend school, it banned children from many public...
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...concentration camps suffered cruel and immoral treatment. The series of medical experiments took place in the early 1940’s; during WWII and the Holocaust. In these experiments patients suffered indescribable pain. Typically the experiments resulted in death, trauma, disfiguration and permanent disability. There was as, many as thirty different kinds of tests including: the freezing, the high altitude and the hemorrhage experiments. The Nazi physicians did not care about the patients undergoing tests, they only cared about getting new information to improve the German military. Consent was never given for any of the patients, all patients were forced into doing the inhumane tests created by the Nazis’s....
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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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...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 three-story brick buildings, some of which were barracks and others of which housed laboratories for some of the medical experiments conducted under the supervision of Mengele. Auschwitz 3, also known as Buna, was the labor camp. Here German companies, such as I. G. Farben, were able to solve the labor shortage created when Jews were expelled from their homes in the ghettos and were no longer...
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...1.6 million People were sent to concentration camps during World War II, of which one million died. Death was caused by starvation, people becoming too weak that they were unfit and were killed off, and being hung due to insubordination. Medical experiments on the prisoners also resulted in death. Dr. Mengele, the man who had done taboo medical experiments on prisoners. This is the life of Josef Mengele from his life as a young individual, to becoming a very well known “doctor”, to becoming a wanted victim. This is the Angel of Death. Born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg , Josef Mengele was the oldest son of Karl Mengele. He lived in an upper middle class family which ran a machine tool business. His family was described as a “Strict Catholic” family. His peers in the town he lived in would describe Mengele as an intelligent and popular person. “A young person with intelligence but more or less ordinary” were the words of description from a close relative. From a very young age Josef Mengele was interested in the racial theories of Alfred Rosenberp, a philosopher of National Socialism. In 1935 Mengele graduated from the University of Munich with a Ph. D in physical anthropology. After graduating he got into believing racism towards Jews. Two years later he became an assistant of Dr. Omar Von Verschuer who was most and commonly known for researching twins. He then served as a medical officer in the beginning of World War II with the invasion of the Soviet Union, he redeemed four...
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...“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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...Introduction: This project aims to examine impacts of the Nazi medical experiments on scientific knowledge and practices. The Holocaust was a genocide perpetuated in Nazi Germany wherein Adolf Hitler and his collaborators were responsible for the deaths more than 15 million people, 6 million of whom were Jews [1]. The scientific experiments performed on prisoners in German concentration camps were ruthless crimes committed under the name of medical research. In this project, my main objective is to study the various types of experiments carried out, the intent behind them, their validity and usage in the current research scenario and the ethical controversies scientists dealing with those data struggle with. I plan to obtain the abovementioned...
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...The Holocaust is one of the biggest and most widely known genocides in history. The Holocaust is famous for introducing many killing methods, such as the infamous gas chambers. One thing the Nazis were notorious for, other than the mass killings, was the horrible treatment of their prisoners. Millions of prisoners died under the Nazis due to various factors, such as disease, abuse by the guards, and the weather. Firstly, the prisoners were severely abused by the prison guards. The guards were quiet sadistic towards the prisoners and abusing them was a manifestation of it. The guard’s and prison staff’s abuse towards the prisoners varied. It would range from beatings to medical experiments. The guards would look for various reasons to beat the...
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...variety of ways to torture and wipe out the European Jews during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a mass execution of 11 million Jews. The picture below, taken in 1944 during WW2 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, shows how many oppressed citizens were murdered on a daily basis in the “Final solution” by the German Nazis. Many people had to suffer...
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...Despite all that we know about the Holocaust and death camps, Dachau was never a death camp like Auschwitz. ¨ Dachau - The significances of the name will never be erased from Germany history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.¨ (This quote was from Eugen Kogon a historian and also a survivor of the holocaust.) Hundreds of thousands of people died at Dachau not only from gas chambers but also by getting shot, diseases and starvation. The Dachau concentration camp was established in March 1933. It was the first regular concentration established by the National Socialist ( Nazi ) government. During the first year, the camp held 4,800 prisoners. The number of jewish prisoners at Dachau rose....
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...The Holocaust, also known as Hitler’s final solution, started on January 30th, 1933. The Holocaust was the systematic genocide of six million Jews. Hitler forced the people of Germany to believe that anyone who was not only a Jew, but gypsies, the disabled, and homosexuals should be persecuted. Nazi soldiers collected these people and sent them to concentration camps in various locations, such as Auschwitz in Poland. Death was a common occurrence in these concentration camps. The Holocaust was a horrible time for the Jewish people who were forcefully segregated from the rest and heavily persecuted, and having knowledge of this period of time will help today’s world recognize signs of this happening again. The end of World War I was a big reason...
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...Mengele’s Experiments The Jewish Josef Mengele asked the Jewish people for doctors. About fifty moved forward. Then he asked the fifty doctors if they studied pathology and forensic medicine, but only Doctor Nyiszli moved forward. That gave Doctor Nyiszli a place as Mengele’s personal research pathologist. Mengele used Doctor Nyiszli by making him dissect the bodies of Mengele’s experimental victims, just so Mengele could learn more about the Jewish people (Deem X). Doctor Joseph Mengele did terrible things to the Jewish people, such as using one of the Jewish to conduct his experiments on the Jews and his notorious twin experiments, Doctor Mengele conducted a possible seventy different medical research projects during the Holocaust....
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