write one page history As a Jewish survival of concentration camp
The following facts have been noted below for your reference:
- Just after Hiter came to power in 1933, he started the formation of several concentartion camps to exterminate all his opponents.
- In Auschwitz ,Jews were herded into large chambers (800-1200) under the pretense of being disinfected or deloused but instead suffocated to death by releassing the poisonous HCn, Hydrogen Cyanide (released from "Zykon-B") gases.
- Later , depending on location and/or time frame, the bodies where either deserted in mass graves or cremated. Often the the graves were even not covered.
- Many victims died of diseases they got from the poor hygiene and nutrition. Epidemics of typhus and spotted fever were allowed to run unchecked as a means of eliminating prisoners.
- In an event in 1944 several number of prisoners weer hung at one time. The other prisoners were forced to witness the horrible sight.
- Often the prisoners were brought out of the concentration camps and dictated to dig pits and then they were shot.
- Prisoners were to work in the factories in the week days. The heavy toil of work without proper diet often led to them to succumb to death.
- Freezing , hand hanging, forced suicides were some other means to exterminate the rivals.
- For further informations you can refer to the following websites :
- The Holocaust Museum website,
- The Anne Frank memorial website.
- Stepeh Spielberg’s movie "The Schindler’s List" also gives a glimpse of the Nazi Concentration Camps.