The people in the church were taken to a death camp where they were gassed and buried in mass graves. He and 150 people were taken to the Lodz, but then the ghetto population demanded to hand over the 10,000 children Arek managed to hide in a commentary. The remaining kids were also taken to the death camp and gassed. Arek was then accepted in the orphanage where he worked in the textile mill and was able to find food he stayed there for two years. In 1944 the Germans decided to clear up the Lodz ghetto completely because the Russian army was getting closer.
An indication to the left meant the prisoner was to be put to death immediately. The stronger ones were directed to the right, leading to the concentration camp. Families were torn apart in the process. Men were put into barracks separate from their wives and children. A number was tattooed on their forearm, by which they were now recognized.
Five days later, Dachau was exempted from Judicial Authority, and then the Punishments an Administrations Regulations act was passed, which meant that it was removed from judicial oversight and the SS guards would have authority over camp prisoners. The following October, a punishment and admissions regulations was passed by Theodor Eickle which allowed SS guards to prescribe punishments, including beatings and execution. The endless nightmare that the prisoners had to endure did not change until August 5, 1938. Dachau forced its prisoners to work at seven days a week to demolish parts of the camp to make room for the expansions. The year after, the camp was temporarily transformed into an Armed Forces Training Camp.
The most notorious example of dehumanization of civilians has to be the killing of Jews in World War Two. Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis for the simple reason that they were Jewish. They were shipped to concentration camps in cattle cars where they were subjected to slave labor until they died of exhaustion or disease. There were numerous examples of dehumanization in the concentration camps. In memoirs of survivors, we learned that they were separated from their families, stripped of their possessions, clothing and cut off their hair.
Some of the prisoners were taken to the Baltic sea and were shot down by SS guards. Others were put on death marches going to Launberg in Eastern Germany. Buchenwald Death March On April 7, 1945, 30,00 prisoners were evacuated on a death march going deep into Germany, no set destination. On April 11 the remaining prisoners alive took control of the camp by using rocks and there numbers to over throw the German guards. American forces came the same day of the revolt.
Alfred and his parents were transported to the Sobibor death camp near Lublin, Poland. As soon as they stepped off the over crowed, sealed cattle cars in which they were forced to travel they were taken to the gas chamber and
Night occurs in the 1940’s, when Adolf Hitler began to invade Hungry and slowly takes over the town Sighet. This is where, Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel, who is the narrator and the author of the book. Elie Wiesel is a 13 year old teenager, who is a deeply observant child, during the day he studied Talmud, which is a Hebrew word meaning learning, instruction, consists
The Nazis entered the towns of the Jewish people, acted very friendly but soon after removed all of the people. They placed them on cattle cars and sent them to concentration camps. 1. Both Elie and Viktor experienced the line that meant walking or dying the sick and weak were sent directly to the crematoriums. 2.
During the middle of Goldstein's speech she began to tell us when the Nazis took the women from their tents and had them embark on what she described as a death march to a small town in Poland. Goldstein told the eighth graders that they were forced by their Nazi overseers to march for weeks like this, some dying along the way. Finally, she recalled, that they were marched to the top of hill. Below there was a valley with a barn. Goldstein described seeing the peasants removing the livestock from the barn.
“Children mourned as they watched their relatives and neighbors lined up into thee gas chambers, and watching the corpses pile up into a fire fueled by their own fat.” This is the daily life of the prisoners in the death camps during the Holocaust from 1933 – 1945. For the first time in history Jews were singled out for total annihilation. The Nazis used death camps to torture and kill Jews during the Holocaust. Jews suffered greatly in death camps by gas chambers, starvation, and hard labor. Although there seemed like no way out of death camps, a few rebellions took place in some famous death camps.