the holocaust camps life in a concentration camp

15
The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp By Amanda Keogh, Kathryn Hallett, Madeline Barcia, and Claire Quinn

Upload: elvin

Post on 30-Jan-2016

57 views

Category:

Documents


1 download

DESCRIPTION

The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp. By Amanda Keogh, Kathryn Hallett, Madeline Barcia, and Claire Quinn. Different Types of Camps. There were three different types of camps… Labor Camps Prison Camps Extermination Camps. Labor Camps. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

The Holocaust CampsLife in a Concentration Camp

By Amanda Keogh, Kathryn Hallett, Madeline Barcia, and Claire Quinn

Page 2: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

Different Types of Camps

There were three different types of camps…

Labor Camps

Prison Camps

Extermination Camps

Page 3: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

Labor CampsThe war was long and drawn out- Germany needed to find a way to provide more armaments

Had to bring workers from weapon factories into army

Needed new laborers to replace them

There were different types of labor camps..

I.G Farben- chemical giant- produced fuel and synthetic rubber

Krupp's Steel- manufactured tanks, guns, and ammunition

Some camps built warplanes, automobiles (BWM), manufactured dynamite, assembled bombs, sewed uniforms, repaired bridges, airfields, roads and railroad tracks

Page 4: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

Prison Camps

First concentration camps

Political necessity

Held Communists, Socialists, Democrats and political Catholics

Dachau was the first prison camp

Twenty barracks

Each held 250 men

The purpose was political control

Page 5: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

Extermination Camps

There were four extermination camps in 1941 and two existing

camps were reconstructed in 1942.

Chelmno

Belzec

Sobidor

Treblinka

Majdanek

Auschwitz

Page 6: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

Chelmno First extermination camp

Inhabitants were used to build two wooden barracks and high fences

Had five vans that served as gas chambers

Held up to 100 to 150 people each

Drivers would than drive the vans to a field where the corpse were dumped

In that time at least five thousand Gypsies, one hundred thousand Jews, and thousands of other (three hundred forty thousand)

Page 7: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

Belzec

First camp with stationary gas chambers

Wooden barracks were replaced by brick building and the

number of gas chambers increased to six

In eight months more than five hundred thousand people were

killed

Page 8: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

Sobibor

Modeled after Belzec

Only nineteen Jewish people survived and returned home from

this camp

Page 9: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

Treblinka

Last camp whose sole purpose was extermination

Gas chambers were not ready when the first trainloads arrived

so the guards simply shot gunned down them all

Over eight thousand died

Page 10: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

Majdanek

Unlike the other death camps it was not hidden from the eyes of

the world

60 percent of the deaths were from work conditions, starvation,

and disease

In three years claimed the lives of nearly two hundred thousand

people

Page 11: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

Auschwitz Largest annihilation camp

Hitler’s “Final Solution” was to annihilate Jews

Main operation center

Four enormous gas chambers- killing 15,000 people each day

By the end of 1944 over 2.5 million Jews were killed

Divided into three different camps

Auschwitz 1: concentration camp housing prisioners

Auschwitz 2: death camp

Auschwitz 3: where slave laborers were constructing the largest synthetic rubber

factory in the world

Page 12: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

Punishments

Prisoners in camps faced severe punishments

Forced to run through narrow paths between barbed wire

Signs would read “to showers” but they would actually lead to gas chambers

Trapped in gas chambers where they coughed and choked- struggled to escape

Didn’t have room to fall down when they died in the gas chamber

Daily session of torture was awarded to a random inmate random inmate

Thousands of prisoners ran into electric barbed wire, killing themselves, to rid

themselves of the punishments

The Nazi’s believed in severe whipping

Prisoners were either shot or hung if they did not cooperate

Page 13: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

A Typical Day...

Prisoners were awoken at 3 am

beds had to be made quickly or faced with 25

lashes

Only one bathroom was available for a group of

four hundred people

Breakfast was severed a 5 pm- given black coffee

Roll call at 6pm

After roll call preformed daily jobs

building railway tracks

carrying stones and coal

sewer repair

sometimes officers would ask workers to

turn around and whip their backs with

sticks until they broke

Lunch was given at noon

meal consisted of cabbage soup

Resumed work at 1 to 6pm

At head count prisoners who did not preform to

their best ability were put through the

“punishment parade”

forced to strip publicly

lie on specially constructed benches

received 25 to 50 lashes

Page 14: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

What did concentration camps look like?

Page 15: The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

For more about living conditions in concentration camps click here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWW8rmWjCI