Concentration Camps

Concentration Camp
When you are going to a camp for school, with friends or with family, you think that you are going to have a tent with mate, or share a descent size cabin. You also think you will have food supplied by the owners of the camp or have food supplied by your parents. You’re also thinking to relax by the fire, and watch the stars at night. But in concentration camps, this does not happen! Instead of relaxing by the fire and watching the stars at night, you are watching Jewish children, women and men being cremated alive, believing in what they believe, being burnt to bits right through to the Jewish symbol of the star. I’m here to inform you about Concentration camps during the time of World War 2, how Jewish people were treated in the camps and some general information on the camps.
Between December 1941 and the summer of 1942 (of Europe), six death camps were set up in Poland. 2 of those 6 death camps were labour and prison camps to which gas chambers were added. These 2 death camps were named Auschwitz and Majdanek. 3 of the 6 camps were Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka which were made specially to kill the Jews as soon as they arrived. When the Jews would arrive at these death camps, they would have no idea what was going to happen to them. The sixth and final death camp was Chlemno. Chlemno was a bit different, because they used specially adapted vans that had poisonous exhaust fumes that would go back inside the van to kill all the Jews. The only few Jews that were not killed, buried the dead in the forest of Chlemno. About 400,000 Jews were gassed in the vans, and was the beginning of the deaths of the Jews out the 6 camps. All of these camps were usually close to railway lines so they could transfer in large numbers.      
Auschwitz death camp was one of the main death camps in the country. It was the main killing centre for Europe’s remaining Jews. Gypsies and homosexuals were also sent there to be killed. The area of the camp was...