The Camps

Who lived in the camps?

• Communists

• Gypsies

• Jehovah Witnesses

• Homosexuals

• The disabled

• Jews

Night of Broken Glass

• After the violent Kristallnacht or

the "Night of Broken Glass" the

Nazis conducted mass arrests of

adult male Jews.

Two kinds of camps:

Death Camps Labor Camps

Events that lead up to life in

the camps…

• Travel by train in overcrowded

cars until arrival.

• Arrival: give all valuables, heads

were shaved, and some were

deemed useful and others were

not.

Barracks

Labor Camps

• The first labor camp was Dachau

– Located in Southern Germany

• 200,000 people were contained

there

• At least 38,000 people died from

disease, starvation, and torture

Labor Camps

“Work Brings Freedom”

Chelmo

• Many Jews living in Polish Jewish

Ghettos were sent to Chelmo to

be killed.

• At least 152,000 people were

killed in the camp

Auschwitz

• Auschwitz I, II, and III located in

Poland.

• Those not killed in the gas

chambers died of

starvation, forced labor, infectious

disease, individual

executions, and medical

experiments.

Death Camp forms of

killing…

Source #1

“After being awakened at 5:30 in the morning, we

were given two minutes to dress. If someone was

not ready, he was badly beaten. Only after everyone

in the barracks was ready were we allowed to stand

in line for a cup of coffee, which was really dirty

warm water. They also gave us a piece of bread

(whose flour had been mixed with sawdust), often

so hard and moldy that it could hardly be eaten.

Since this was our entire food ration for the

day, some people saved the bead for "lunch" while

others, unable to abide the gnawing hunger in their

stomachs, chewed on it immediately. I tried to save

mine for later in the day, knowing that as hungry as

I was upon waking, I would become much more so

as the day wore on and the hours of physical labor

took their toll on my body's limited resources.”

Source #2

"Every day we saw thousands and

thousands of innocent people

disappear up the chimney. With our

own eyes, we could truly fathom

what it means to be a human being.

There they

came, men, women, children, all

innocent. They suddenly

vanished, and the world said

nothing …”

Source #3

• “Already on our way into the

forest we saw about fourteen

men, enforced grave-diggers from

Klodawa, who had arrived before

us. The eight men without tools

carried the two corpses to the

ditch and threw them in. We didn’t

have to wait long before the next

lorry arrived with fresh victims.”

Results

• Dachau

• Chelmo

• Auschwitz

• Source #1

• Source #3

• Source #2

Exit

• If you were to rate your

understanding of yesterday and

today’s lesson, what score would

you give yourself? Why?

– Gradual Jewish Exclusion

– Concentration Camps