Mrs.Pilarte
Language 8B
Period 4
March 7,2017
Concentration Camps
A concentration camp was a horrible place Jews were sent to so they could be killed in numerous ways. Some main concentration camps were Auschwitz-Birkenau and Belzec which were located in Poland. Also Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald which were located in Germany. These camps tortured the Jews slowly and painfully. Jews could only imagine being called up and having to go to these horrible camps where the Nazi would inflict pain on them. The idea of concentration camps brings up a dark time in German history where anyone one repetition who went against the Nazi regime were forced to go into these camps where they would be gassed, injected with toxins, or starved to …show more content…
The gassing chamber was “only 1,620 feet from the Belzec railway station” ("Concentration Camps, 1933–1939"). Then there was a place where they were transported into the gassing chambers called the tube. This is some information about the tube and the gassing chambers,“A narrow enclosed path called the "tube" connected the two sections of the killing center. The reception area held the railway siding and a ramp. The area where the mass murder took place included the gas chambers and mass graves. Rail tracks ran from the gas chambers to the burial pits”("Concentration Camps, 1933–1939"). Then they also had a small staff controlling the camp “(between 20 and 30) and a police auxiliary guard unit of between 90 and 120 men” ("Concentration Camps, 1933–1939"). Most of the guards for the camp were soviet prisoners of …show more content…
This number”500,000” (Fold3). isn't just a random simple number its how many innocent Jews,Poles,and Gypsies lost their lives for their beliefs. Image being killed for loving Christ or killed because you spoke in church against the preacher. That's an example of how it was. Now is it right or wrong that's what you believe, but this camp gassed people with toxins to kill them to make their death slow and painful. Why so they could suffer for their “wrong