The Concentration Camps

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The Concentration Camps

• By
• Austin Wolf
• Drew Stevens
• Andres Renteria

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Letter Dear Drew, To describe the course of the
day in a concentration camp is a difficult
undertaking. I will describe a day in my new
life. First we are woken up at 400 a.m. by the
kapo(the leader of the bunk) barking at us.
Hurry up! You must raise, find your shoes We
have to make our beds military style, perfectly
folded. Of course, this is nearly impossible to
do and the kapo knows it. Its just a good
opportunity for them to beat us. Our beds are
made now, and it is time for washing. We run out
of the barrack and try to reach the sanitary
facility. There are only a couple of sanitary
facilities for hundreds of prisoners. We have
just a couple of minutes for washing. It is
nearly time for the morning roll call, and you
know the kapos will beat the stragglers,
sometimes to death. Now its time for breakfast.
We must have our mess-tin in hand. No mess-tin,
no food. A kapo gives us approximately 10 ounces
of bread and some "coffee". Sometimes, if we are
lucky, we'll receive some margarine or a thin
slice of sausage with our bread. The "coffee" is
tasteless. No sugar and no milk, of course. The
bread we just received will be the only solid
food we'll receive until tomorrow. We try to
spare it for the rest of the day. The
distribution of food is once again a good
opportunity for the kapos to have some "fun".
Sometimes they throw the bread in the mud, or
they push us while serving the coffee, wasting it
on the ground. Roll call. We are lined up in rows
of ten. All of us must be at the roll call,
including those of us that died during the night.
Under control of the SS guards and officers, the
kapos count the thousands of prisoners. A mistake
during the counting and everything must start
again, making the kapos nervous and dangerous.
During the roll call, we must stand at attention,
even if it is raining or snowing. It is forbidden
to move or to talk during the roll call. Our poor
striped uniform, made from an incredibly rough
cloth, does not protect us against the cold
weather. Every day, several prisoners catch cold
during the roll call and die in the following
days. The rest of our day is filled with hard
work and death, at the end of the day, another
roll call session and finally bed. It is hard
here, hopefully liberation will come soon.
Austin Wolf
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Picture Book
View of the entrance to the main camp of
Auschwitz (Auschwitz I). The gate bears the motto
"Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work makes one free).
Austin Wolf
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View of the walled entrance to the gas chamber in
the main camp of Auschwitz (Auschwitz I). This
gas chamber was in use for only a short time
before being converted into a bomb shelter. In
the background is a building used by the Gestapo
as a regional headquarters. (April 1945)
Austin Wolf
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A door to a gas chamber in Auschwitz. The note
reads Harmful gas! Entering endangers your life.
(February 1945)  
Austin Wolf
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View of the execution wall next to Block 11 in
the Auschwitz I camp after liberation. (After
January 1945)  
Austin Wolf
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View of the camp's double, electrified, barbed
wire fence and barracks. (Immediately after
liberation January 1945)  
Austin Wolf
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A sign on the electric fence in Auschwitz. The
sign reads caution, danger. (After January 1945)
Austin Wolf
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A fence around the barracks in the main camp of
Auschwitz (Auschwitz I). (After January 1945)
Austin Wolf
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View of the lane separating the first and the
second row of barracks in the main camp. On the
left, in the distance is crematorium 1. (After
January 1945)
Austin Wolf
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Interior of a barrack type 260/9-Pferdestallebarac
ke (stable barracks). (After January 1945)
Austin Wolf
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Prisoners' orchestra during a Sunday concert for
the SS-men in Auschwitz. The orchestra was
propably conducted by the inmate Franciszek
Nierychlo. (1941)
Austin Wolf
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One of the Crematory ovens used
Austin Wolf
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Poem
We are the children...
Austin Wolf
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Sources
http//www.holocaust-trc.org/
http//remember.org/ideas/weare.html
http//fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/galle
ry/gallery.htm
Austin Wolf
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Map
Drew Stevens
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Haiku
Concentration camps A place for grim suffering No
one belongs here
Drew Stevens
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Found Poem
Ill give you an extra ration Of bread and
margarine. He was very keen On my shoes But I
didnt give them Up to him. Ill give you an
extra ration
Drew Stevens
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Sources
http//www.holocaust-trc.org/
Night. By Elie Wiesel
Drew Stevens
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Collage
                             
 
                 
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Wanted     Joseph Mengele                        
            The amount of evidence against
Mengele is astounding in both its enormity and
variety in the acts of physical and emotional
cruelty that he inflicted upon thousands of
helpless victims. In addition to the selections
and beatings, Mengele occupied his time by
performing numerous acts of cruelty, including
the dissection of live infants the castration of
boys and men without the use of an anesthetic
and the administering of high- voltage electric
shocks to women inmates in order to test their
endurance. The West German Prosecutors Office
drew up 78 different indictments against Mengele,
charging him with the most scandalous and cruel
crimes against humanity, including Having
actively and decisively taken part in selections
in the prisoners sick blocks, who through hunger
deprivations, exhaustion, sickness, disease,
abuse or other reasons were unfit for work in the
camp and whose speedy recovery was not foreseen.
Those selected were killed either through
injections or firing squads or by painful
suffocation to death through prussic acid in the
gas chambers in order to make room in the camp
for the "fit" prisoners, selected by him or other
SS officials. The injections that killed were
made with phenol, petrol, evipal, chloroform, or
air into the circulation, especially into the
heart chamber, either with his own hands or he
ordered the SS sanitary worker to do it while he
watched.
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                                    These
camps are standing museums of the horror that
Hitler unleashed upon the Jews and other races,
which he considered inferior. There are
concentration camps located in many of Europes
countries including Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine,
Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria,
Germany, and France.   Summer 2005. For
more information visit our website at
thehorrorofhitler.com.
 
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