Millions of people suffered in the concentration camps. The Nazis wanted the Jews to feel excruciating pain and suffering for what they did. They were killed with machine guns, gas chambers, starvation, abuse, and burned alive in the ovens. Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, just because of their religion and who they were. Adolf Hitler’s army did not care what the innocent people had to say, killing children and adults. Families were separated and shipped to different camps. “There were many different kinds of victims, and each had a different colored triangle with a letter on it that they had to wear” (Victims of the Holocaust). After the officers made them take off all of their clothing, they made them put on specific uniforms and gat a tattoo of a number. The Jewish people lost their dignity and many lost hope. The majority of the people died, suffering in the concentration camps. The Nazis had no respect or sympathy for the people they murdered. “The concentration camps were not a place where you could live and die peacefully. At these camps, the treatment was extremely harsh and cruel. Every person there was either sick, starving, dying or a slave laborer”(Victims of the Holocaust). After the surviving Jews returned from the death trains on August 31, 1941, the Chief of Police told them, “’Boys, you have been tried and found innocent. You are honorable men, so that each one of you can return to his own home. Be just as you were before’” (Butnaru36).
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| Two young brothers, seated for a family photograph in the Kovno ghetto. One month later, they were deported to the Majdanek camp. Kovno, Lithuania, Feb. 1944. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2011. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?MediaId=559>. |
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Prisoners of Auschwitz. N.d. A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2005. Web. 19 Apr. 2011. http://fcit.usf.edu/%20HOLOCAUST/GALL31R/85600.htm. HOLOCAUST/GALL31R/85600.htm |
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Ustasa (Croatian fascist) camp guards order a Jewish man to remove his ring before being shot. Jasenovac concentration camp, Yugoslavia, between 1941 and 1945. 1994-95. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. N.p., n.d. Web.19 Apr. 2011. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?MediaId=1330>. |
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Nazi Concentration Camps. 16 Apr. 1945. Wapedia. N.p., Sept. 2010. Web. 19 Apr. 2011. <http://wapedia.mobi/en/Internment>. |