How Does Forced Labor Affect The Holocaust

The torture of the Holocaust began on January 30, 1933, which impacted millions of lives; resulting in more than 7,000,000 deaths of innocent prisoners of children, men, and women. But the torture and abuse didn’t end for years. Prisoners would have to experience forced labor and physical and mental abuse. Different genders of prisoners in the Holocaust were negatively impacted in different ways when it came to forced labor and being physically abused. In World War II, men and women prisoners who were brought to concentration camps were put into forced labor that included different types of work for the different genders. This work negatively impacted prisoners differently. Nazi guards that followed Hitler would physically abuse men and women

From beatings to running for your life, Nazi’s would always perform the act of corruption on prisoners as if they were animals. Men and women prisoners were horribly traumatized by abuse and forced labor that led many to death in camps.

Prisoners were negatively affected by the forced labor forced upon them in camps. Both men and women had to work for their lives. Although, in concentration camps during the Holocaust, men tended to receive harder work than women did. Upon arrival to the concentration camps during the Holocaust, prisoners would be first selected to death, which tended to be mostly women and children. Nazi’s saw women and children as a waste of food and weaker than the young men they rather feed. Others then would go and were put into forced labor. Forced labor was when Nazi soldiers forced captives to work for their lives. However, even though women and men were both put into forced labor, women usually had jobs such as cleaning, cooking, and laundry when men had physical work that physically impacted

Male and female prisoners both experienced different abuse forced upon from the Nazi’s. Nazi guards found male prisoners to be more as a threat in the concentration camps so they physically abused them by making them run for extreme periods of time and beating them. These runs would lead many to die from hyperthermia, from the cold, and becoming so weak that other captives would trample over the fallen and kill them. Even if the prisoners didn’t do anything wrong, the Nazi’s would brutally beat them; even to death in some cases. Nazi’s would also beat women often because they were more vulnerable and easy to control. Not only did women get drubbings from Nazi’s, but also be sexually assaulted by them. Nazi guards would rape women prisoners in concentration camps as a form of abuse. Sometimes, Nazi guards would give the woman an extra ration of food or other powers for what was forced upon her. According to (“Women During the Holocaust”), “In both camps and ghettos, women were particularly vulnerable to beatings and rape.” Also according to the article, (Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust”), “Because Jewish men were viewed as a greater threat to the Nazi’s than Jewish women, men were targeted first to quash political opposition.” Women prisoners were easily taken advantaged of by Nazi’s and easily beaten. Nazi’s were able to take power