Summary Of The Death Camps By William Lace

The Holocaust was a horrible period in the history of the world. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, about six million Jews were slaughtered for no decent reason. In William Lace's book, The Death Camps, he stated that not only Jews were killed, there was about five million Gypsies and other people that were murdered too (16). There was no way that anyone could stop the Nazis from killing innocent people. People were persecuted from their homes and taken to ghettos. They were also transported to concentration camps, where people were either killed or put to work. William Lace, the author of The Death Camps, found a quote of an anonymous prisoner, "Everybody got a piece of metal sheet with a number imprinted on it... we had to take good care of

He killed people by the hundreds, just because they were Jews. To kill the Jews the Germans would use guns in the beginning of the war, but in later days they would use gas chambers. When the Jews first arrived at the camp, they were lied to. The Germans would say that it was only a labor camp. In William Lace's book, The Death Camps, there was a picture and on the entrance at the death camp of Theresienstadt, there were bold letters saying "ALBEIT MACHT FREI", which meant Work Brings Freedom, that was obviously untrue(49). The Jews would then form a line and a German would decide who would live and who would die. Only the tough ones would live, but the unhealthy ones were a bit unlucky. They were sent to "take a shower" which was actually a shower of death. The gas would come out of the shower spouts and everyone in there died. After the gas chambers the Jews would be moved to large ovens in which they would burn and dispose the bodies. All of the concentration camps were full of trickery, so there was really no German that you could trust. Many Jews starved to death because they were not fed well enough, just enough to keep them