Auschwitz and Dachau Genocide

Elie Wiesel may not have experienced Dachau, but all concentration camps were overwhelmingly terrifying. Every prisoner witnessed their own traumatic story that would scar them to live their everyday lives. The pain and excruciating trauma they faced in the camps made death seem like the best option. Elie Wiesel was a young boy that witnessed the death of his father and lived every day questioning if his mother and sister were still alive. The things he saw have caused great distress and pain in his life. Both Dachau and Auschwitz were in very harsh conditions and made living a struggle. The limitations on food, showers, and free time wore their body’s down more and more every day. There were many similarities like the poor conditions, the torture of prisoners, and the limited room for all the Jews’. Differences were limited since the ultimate goal was to eliminate the whole Jew population. Dachau and Auschwitz were very similar and different when it came to the harsh living conditions before and during the camps, the number of deaths and survivors, and the work they did and the conditions.
Living in a concentration camp wasn’t easy especially with the harsh living conditions faced by both Auschwitz and Dachau. Before they were put in concentration camps they were put in small ghettos. Ghettos are enclosed areas in a city or town, it is the method of segregating and imprisoning people in their own houses. This was mainly used to separate