I chose this topic because learning about concentration camps is interesting. This topic is interesting because learning the information about the tactics that Germany used are disgusting but then very intelligent. Concentration camps relate to World War 2 by happening in the same time. The most important thing that I learned was the first fact below, that there isn't just a "concentration camp", but there was numerous others.
Although multiple people say all Nazi camps as "concentration camps," there was actually a number of different kinds of camps, including concentration camps, extermination camps, labor camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and transit camp. One of the first concentration camps was Dachau, that opened on March 20, 1933. Auschwitz was the largest concentration and extermination camp built. It is estimated that 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz. The Nazis did medical experiments on the prisoners against their will. Gas in the chambers during the Holocaust entered the lower layers of air first and then rose slowly toward the ceiling, which forced victims to trample one another in an attempt to breathe. Stronger victims were often found on top of the pile of bodies.
Although multiple people say all Nazi camps as "concentration camps," there was actually a number of different kinds of camps, including concentration camps, extermination camps, labor camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and transit camp. One of the first concentration camps was Dachau, that opened on March 20, 1933. Auschwitz was the largest concentration and extermination camp built. It is estimated that 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz. The Nazis did medical experiments on the prisoners against their will. Gas in the chambers during the Holocaust entered the lower layers of air first and then rose slowly toward the ceiling, which forced victims to trample one another in an attempt to breathe. Stronger victims were often found on top of the pile of bodies.
poems written by children about concentration camps
Birdsong by "Anonymous": At Terezin by "Teddy" (1943):
He doesn't know the world at all When a new child comes.
Who stays in his nest and doesn't go out. Everything seems strange to him.
He doesn't know what birds know best What, on the ground I have to lie?
Nor what I want to sing about, Eat black potatoes? NO! Not I!
That the world is full of loveliness. I've got to stay? It's dirty here!
The floor-why, look, it's dirt, I fear!
When dewdrops sparkle in the grass And I'm supposed to sleep on it?
And earth's aflood with morning light, I'll get all dirty.
A blackbird sings upon a bush
To greet the dawning after night.
Then I know how fine it is to live. Here the sound of shouting, cries,
And, oh, so many flies.
Hey, try to open up your heart Everyone knows flies carry disease.
To beauty; go to the woods someday Oooh, something bit me? Wasn't that a bedbug?
And weave a wreath of memory there. Here in Terezin, life is hell
Then if tears obscure your way And when I'll go home again, I can't yet tell.
You'll know how wonderful it is
To be alive.
http://facts.randomhistory.com/holocaust-facts.html
http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/holocaustfacts.htm
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/04/sorelle/poetry/wwii/poetry.html
He doesn't know the world at all When a new child comes.
Who stays in his nest and doesn't go out. Everything seems strange to him.
He doesn't know what birds know best What, on the ground I have to lie?
Nor what I want to sing about, Eat black potatoes? NO! Not I!
That the world is full of loveliness. I've got to stay? It's dirty here!
The floor-why, look, it's dirt, I fear!
When dewdrops sparkle in the grass And I'm supposed to sleep on it?
And earth's aflood with morning light, I'll get all dirty.
A blackbird sings upon a bush
To greet the dawning after night.
Then I know how fine it is to live. Here the sound of shouting, cries,
And, oh, so many flies.
Hey, try to open up your heart Everyone knows flies carry disease.
To beauty; go to the woods someday Oooh, something bit me? Wasn't that a bedbug?
And weave a wreath of memory there. Here in Terezin, life is hell
Then if tears obscure your way And when I'll go home again, I can't yet tell.
You'll know how wonderful it is
To be alive.
http://facts.randomhistory.com/holocaust-facts.html
- I learned facts about the concentration camps.
- Their tactics and how the killed their prisoners.
- Lastly, I learned different kinds of concentration camps.
http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/holocaustfacts.htm
- I learned how the gas chambers really worked.
- That the Nazis did medical experiments on the prisoners against their will.
- The number of people died.
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/04/sorelle/poetry/wwii/poetry.html