Finally, once inside the gas chambers, carbon monoxide or powdered Zyklon B would be poured down from the holes that were put on the roofs of the gas chambers. (Holocaust, 2008) The camp commandant was required to watch every gassing, and supervise both the preparations and the aftermath of the gassing. From 1941 – 1942 carbon monoxide gas was used to kill prisoners, which would take about 36 minutes to kill off all 900 people in the gas chamber. From 1942 – 1943 Zyklon B was used to kill prisoners, which would take about 15 minutes to kill all 900 people in the gas chamber. The Zyklon B had a paralyzing effect on the lungs, which ensured death.
Ghettos were temporary holding places for Jews. The Nazis wanted the concentration camps to exterminate the majority of the Jews, but the ghettos gave more opportunities for natural death (Byers 73). Many Jews were also forced to do labor in the ghettos, which sometimes caused natural death (Byers 73). Most Jews were moved to ghettos in the mid to late 1930’s. Lots of Jews were moved to ghettos in a “single stroke” on February 8, 1940.
Third, wherever Germany in Eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen were created to murder Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. Finally, Jews and Romani were ordered to be live in overcrowded ghettos, there they were then transported by freight train to extermination camps. Extermination camps were camps that were built by Nazi Germany, during the World War II, that were designed to kill millions of people by gassing and extreme work under terrible living conditions. The Nazis were not alone in this effort. Parish churches and the Interior Ministry supported the genocide by presenting birth records showing who was Jewish; the Post Office delivered the deportation and denaturalization orders; the Finance Ministry took away Jewish property; German businesses fired Jewish workers and took away stock that belonged to the Jews.
The people in the church were taken to a death camp where they were gassed and buried in mass graves. He and 150 people were taken to the Lodz, but then the ghetto population demanded to hand over the 10,000 children Arek managed to hide in a commentary. The remaining kids were also taken to the death camp and gassed. Arek was then accepted in the orphanage where he worked in the textile mill and was able to find food he stayed there for two years. In 1944 the Germans decided to clear up the Lodz ghetto completely because the Russian army was getting closer.
This left very few Jews in a condition to enter the camp. Such convincing methods were often used by the Germans to get work from the Jews and keep them going, until they died to illness and death, or until the humor of the German officers were fulfilled. After the Jews got off the trains, they were faced by a doctor at the entrance of the camp. Every prisoner was to be seen by the doctor, who would point to the left or the right with his thumb. An indication to the left meant the prisoner was to be put to death immediately.
There were so many crematoriums during World War II that the Nazis had developed. The Jews were placed in the crematoriums as a way of disposing them. During the holocaust, there were many gruesome types of deaths that the Nazis inflicted upon the Jews. The most common course of action the Nazi Officers took exterminating the Jewish people were the process of using a poisonous gas (Danish page 2). The Nazis used a type of gas labeled Zyklon B.
Alfred and his parents were transported to the Sobibor death camp near Lublin, Poland. As soon as they stepped off the over crowed, sealed cattle cars in which they were forced to travel they were taken to the gas chamber and
But not just the Jews were involved in the Holocaust. Those with mental or physical disabilities were sent to a “hospital” were they were told they would be getting cared for but instead they were murdered with lethal injections, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, trade unionists, political opponents, Poles and Soviet prisoners of war were sent to the concentration camps. Hitler wanted a country with a race of Aryan. They had blonde hair and blue eyes; Hitler wanted to get rid of anyone that stood in the way of this happening. Hitler used propaganda to convince the people of Germany that it was the Jews that were the result of all their problems.
Some of the most well-known are Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Chelmno, Buchenwald, Neuengamme and Majdanek. Jews, other racial minorities and people who were considered enemies of Hitler’s regime were deported to these camps and forced to work in horrendous living conditions. Thousands of inmates died of starvation, overwork, exposure to the elements, epidemics and disease. Those who were unfit for labour including women, children, the elderly and the sick were immediately gassed and their bodies either cremated or dumped into mass
| The period of time the book is based on was when European Jews were badly treated by The Nazi. They were put in concentration camps, shot to death, they even were supposedly taken for showers (where they were gathered into a room and it would be filled with poisoned or toxic gas, this would immediately lead to death). To us this is general knowledge and we would know to stay away from this if we were in the same situation, because we know of the dangerous consequences it can form. But to a young child it’s completely different. As the book quotes... | “As the door at the front was suddenly closed and a loud metallic sound rang through from the outside.