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Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp - College Papers

Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp

Kylie Reuter
Mrs. Coudron
English Hour 4
3 February 2010

Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp

Do you have memories of days at summer camp? Holocaust prisoners had memories from camp too, but not the kind you want to remember with your best friend the next summer. The Holocaust lasted from 1939 to 1945. During that time period, Nazi Germany targeted Jews and other outcasts including Romas or gypsies, mentally and physically disabled and homosexuals. Many of these people were put into concentration camps or death camps built by the Nazis in Poland. In Auschwitz, the largest of Nazi concentration camps, daily life included work, pain, misery and death.
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III - Monowitz (also known as Bena, a labor camp), and 45 smaller camps (Auschwitz Concentration Camp). One million three hundred Jews, two hundred eighty thousand Poles, forty thousand gypsies and twenty thousand Soviet Prisoners of War were sent to Auschwitz where Nazis killed them (Auschwitz; A Nazi Concentration Camp). Most all children, women with children, all the elderly and all those who appeared weak to the camp doctor were sent to be killed (Auschwitz Concentration Camp). Children were often killed upon arrival to Auschwitz. Children who were born in the camp were generally killed on the spot. Near the end of the war, to cut costs, children were placed directly into ovens or open burning pits (Auschwitz, Nazi Death Camps).
Daily life for Holocaust prisoners started early in the morning and was filled with agonizing work. The day began at 4:30 a.m. with roll call. The Kommandos (workers) walked to their place of work. The working day lasted twelve hours in the summer ...

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Added: 9/13/2012 09:37:59 PM
Submitted By: kyliereuter
Category: World History
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1062
Pages: 4

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