Lace, James M. Auschwitz: Voices From The Death Camp

As they step off the train they gain hope, which is quickly taken away by the wretched sights and the undismissable stench of Auschwitz. The Nazis have taken them from their homes and sent them to labor camps. The so-called “labor” camps is where they murder the Jews and prisoners of the Nazis. The Nazis have killed Jews in ways that we can't imagine, they have made life for Jews terrible, and the trains they took to the camps were horrible and unforgiving.

There were different ways that the Jews were killed within the Death Camps. The most resourceful and effective way they killed Jews were that they gassed the Jews. They used a poisonous gas called Zyklon-B that reacted when came into air contact and killed them. Lace, William W. The Death

The Jews were often worked without rest and many have died because of it. If the Jews were not murdered by the Nazis they died to other reasons. More died from disease then in anything else. Deem, James M. Auschwitz: Voices from the Death Camp. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2012. Print. They saw that friends and family had died in the camps. Perhaps one of the hardest things was seeing people come off the trains and sent to the gas chambers, being forced to tell them they were showers. Many tried warning newcomers and were killed for it. Lace, William W. The Death Camps. Lucent Books, 1998.One son saw his mother get off the train, and she was being sent to the gas chambers, and he told her until she died that they were showers.Gottfried, Ted. "The Death Camps."NaziGermany,Jan.2000,p.94.EBSCOhost,search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=n9h&AN=8881430& site= ehost-live. If they had any type of health defect whether it be something bad or to something like glasses, they would be killed. Gottfried, Ted. "The Death Camps.

"NaziGermany,Jan.2000,p.94.EBSCOhost,search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=n9h&AN=8881430& site= ehost-live. Few to none have escaped Auschwitz or any of the other Camps for that matter. There was a few accounts of people escaping but not enough for the Germans to

Many died on the long journeys on the trains. They mostly died from disease, but they also died from starvation and dehydration. When someone had a disease the best thing they could do to isolate them was have them turn around. Lace, William W. The Death Camps. Lucent Books, 1998. When someone had died the soldiers told them to keep their bodies, there will be more soon enough. Lace, William W. The Death Camps. Lucent Books, 1998. The soldiers had also gone back into the trains and took their valuables, instead of having them take off rings they cut of their fingers. There had been one occurence in a 28 day trip from Greece to Auschwitz they opened the train doors and all the passengers had died. Gottfried, Ted."The Death Camps."NaziGermany,Jan.2000,p.94.

EBSCOhost,search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=n9h&AN=8881430& site= ehost-live. As soon as they took their first step off the train they gained hope, but it vanished quickly. All of the sick, women, children, and disabled were all sent to be executed in the gas chambers. As for the rest of them, they will be stuck with the disturbing scent of burning