Concentration Camps
Concentration Camps
In the the years of 1933 to 1945, the Nazi party decided to encapture the Jewish people, putting them in concentration camps. A concentration camp is a site where many people are held under small grounds, with little to no food, where they were likely sent to be killed. Other groups imprisoned in concentration camps were communists, gypsies, homosexuals, and people that went against the idea of an anti-semitic country.
Starting in the year of 1941, concentration camps, located in Germany, would force prisoners into harsh laboring tasks. These horrid jobs left many dead due to starvation,exhaustion, and exposure.
In the book, The Berlin Boxing Club, Uncle Jakob (Karl's uncle) is sent to D'auschwitz. Uncle Jakob is sent to a concentration camp for being a Communist, and rebelling against the government's beliefs. In the book, it is very interesting to find that Karl and Hildy are unaware of what a concentration camp really is. I thought this idea was so intriguing in the sense that millions of Jews were being sent to these camps, yet some Jews had no idea what they were. Also, I thought it was crazy that this was the first time that concentration camps had really been exposed to the real world.
As the idea of concentration developed across the nation, so did all genocidal thoughts. In the late 1930’s some concentration camps were turned into death camps. The Nazi party would force Jews into the showers, where the would gas them to death, with poisonous gases. Some death camps existing in Germany were: Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Treblinka.
During the course of World War II the Nazi party captured millions of Jews, killing a very large percent of them. Unfortunately, only a very small percentage of Jewish people escaped from concentration camps, and the ones who did were usually left stranded without their family, and traumatized. Some of those very concentration camps still exist to this day, although no one is being held in them, of course. Concentration camps still remaining today are a sign for all German people, and people all across the world to remind us never to forget such a horrible event, like the Holocaust.
Starting in the year of 1941, concentration camps, located in Germany, would force prisoners into harsh laboring tasks. These horrid jobs left many dead due to starvation,exhaustion, and exposure.
In the book, The Berlin Boxing Club, Uncle Jakob (Karl's uncle) is sent to D'auschwitz. Uncle Jakob is sent to a concentration camp for being a Communist, and rebelling against the government's beliefs. In the book, it is very interesting to find that Karl and Hildy are unaware of what a concentration camp really is. I thought this idea was so intriguing in the sense that millions of Jews were being sent to these camps, yet some Jews had no idea what they were. Also, I thought it was crazy that this was the first time that concentration camps had really been exposed to the real world.
As the idea of concentration developed across the nation, so did all genocidal thoughts. In the late 1930’s some concentration camps were turned into death camps. The Nazi party would force Jews into the showers, where the would gas them to death, with poisonous gases. Some death camps existing in Germany were: Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Treblinka.
During the course of World War II the Nazi party captured millions of Jews, killing a very large percent of them. Unfortunately, only a very small percentage of Jewish people escaped from concentration camps, and the ones who did were usually left stranded without their family, and traumatized. Some of those very concentration camps still exist to this day, although no one is being held in them, of course. Concentration camps still remaining today are a sign for all German people, and people all across the world to remind us never to forget such a horrible event, like the Holocaust.