Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Auschwitz is one of the five death camps constructed by the Nazis which the most streamlined mass was killing center ever created. It is the largest Nazi’s death camp because 1.1 million people were murdered here and most of them are the Jews. Auschwitz has become a symbol of death, the Holocaust, and the destruction of European Jewry. This camp housed prisoners and was a location of medical experiments. Besides that, it is the site of Block 11 which a place of severe torture and the Black Wall, a place of execution. At the entrance of Auschwitz, there is the infamous sign that stated "Arbeit Macht Frei" which means "work makes one free". Apart from that, Auschwitz also housed the Nazi staff that ran the entire camp complex.

These three pictures previews how the Nazis surround all the prisoners inside the concentration camp. The security is tight and there was almost impossible to escape from this hell. The fence was constructed high so that it is difficult for the prisoners to climb it. Besides that, it is equipped with barbed wire and to make it worse, the Nazis decided to channel high voltage of electric current to the wire. I think this is the main reason why all the prisoners continued to work there. They had no choice but to stay inside of the camp because there was almost zero percent of chance to escape.

During the detention, each of the prisoners life was really hard. They were thrown into the cruel, hard, unfair, horrific world of camp life. The next pictures shows some prisoner's belongings while they was there. Each of them were given one bowl to be used as multipurpose utility which was used as dish container, wash basin, pillow and chamber pot. Other than that, they were provided with wooden shoes. This shoes were claimed as the source of much pain, suffering and death among the prisoners because it is tight and rough. They caused blisters and sores, even fatal infection due to prisoner's weakened immune systems. Then, the last picture is some of the prayer shawls belongs to the religious Jews. When they arrived at the camp, all of these shawls were confiscated and were kept inside the warehouse. They were forbidden to practice their religion but to work only.

The last picture is the structures found at Auschwitz. The first picture shows the hospital block courtyard where the medical experiments were conducted. This hospital had no meaning to the prisoners because they view it as a pain rather than as a cure for their illness. Lastly, the second picture shows the only way out from this hell. It also seems meaningless to those prisoners because they knew that they will never had a chance to get pass through the gate. The only way to get through it is as a dead body which is after an execution or when they die because of illness.

Source : http://remember.org/jacobs/index.html