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The Holocaust … Arriving at the Camps. In this image, people are being herded aboard cattle cars to a concentration camp. The cattle cars are clearly visible in the background. Many of those in poor health died in the cramped and poorly ventilated railway cars. .
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In this image, people are being herded aboard cattle cars to a concentration camp. The cattle cars are clearly visible in the background. Many of those in poor health died in the cramped and poorly ventilated railway cars.
In this image, people arrive at a death camp. Unknown to them, they had mere hours to live.
In this image women and children arrive at a death camp. Sadly, it is not hard to see how frightened they must have been.
Children separated from their parents were placed with older people. In this photo, the woman and three children areunknowingly walking to their deaths.
“We discussed the ways and means of effecting the extermination. This could only be done by gassing, since it would have been absolutely impossible to dispose by shooting the large numbers of people that were expected, and it would have placed too heavy a burden on the SS men who had to carry it out, especially because of the woman and children among the victims.” --Rudolf Hoess, on his meeting with Himmler in summer 1941
Money and valuable items, sentimental items, and practical items such as eyeglasses were confiscated. • Valuables were sold to make money for Germany, such as the wedding rings shown in the next slide, taken from women at Buchenwald in Germany (the last camp Elie is at).
The U.S. troops found rings, watches, precious stones, eyeglasses, and gold fillings, near Buchenwald concentration camp. After the liberation, over 384 pounds of gold and silver teeth were found. These had been extracted from prisoners of the camps. This is not to mention all of the teeth that were already sold, as Elie Wiesel mentions in his account in Night.
Like everything else in the camps, the shoes were sent to Germany (except for what was left when the camps were raided).
Camps were surrounded by walls or electrified fences (as Elie mentions) with high watchtowers. • The inmates were under constant watch and were often beaten, tortured, & killed for no reason at all.
