1. Death and Concentration Camps
Terrina Phillips
Deja Andrades
Raquel Haro
Period 1

2. What Exactly are Concentration Camps?
Camps that held people under harsh conditions
Prisoners are held captive
Tortured, and cruelly detained prisoners
Concentration camps were camps where prisoners were kept and detained, usually under cruel, inhumane, and harsh conditions. Prisoners were usually captured because the rulers of the camps had something against them, such as religious disputes, political differences, other war related conflicts, and even for one’s appearance!. Many concentration camps were mainly focused on the hatred towards a certain, specific body of individuals. For example…

3. Where Were Concentration Camps Found?
Much of Europe
Asia
South America
Germany
The most well-known concentration camps were those in Germany that were run by the Nazis, but there were also camps in France, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Norway, Poland, Russia, Argentina, and even in the United States!

4. When were Concentration Camps in Control?
During World War II
First Concentration Camp (Dachau) opened early 1933
Concentration Camps were running between 1939 and 1942 during World War 2. The first camp was opened on March 20, 1933 in Dachau, Germany. This camp was to perform medical experiments on prisoners.

5. How Were Prisoners Treated?
Forced Demanding Labor
Starvation
Medical Experiments
Gas Chambers
Prisoners were forced to wear color-coded triangles so officers can easily identify their background. They were forced to do physically demanding work, and be performed on for medical experiments such as changing eye colors. Most people eventually died by either being murdered or maltreatment.

6. Unhappy Campers Most infamously: Jews imprisoned by Hitler Generals
Prisoners of War
Concentration camps victimized many different sorts of people. Most infamously, the Jews were kidnapped and brought to these camps where they would be tortured, experimented on, and were either killed or eventually died. Other residents within concentration camps included generals or other army officials who convicted crimes or were against whoever ran the camps, African Americans, as well as the Japanese who were forced into camps by Americans during World War II. The most infamous and well-known commander and establisher of concentration camps would be Adolf Hitler, the chancellor of Germany.

7. Why Concentration Camps Exist
Rulers’ Hatred for Prisoners:
-Religious Disputes
-Political Differences
-War Related Conflicts
-Appearance
Prisoners were usually captured because the rulers of the camp had something against them, such as religious disputes, political differences, other war related conflicts, and appearance. Many camps had certain type of people there.

8. Did You Know?
When Prisoners arrived at camps, they would receive tattoos that had identification numbers on it.
Officers gathered hundreds of naked people to give them a “shower” but locked them in a gas chamber.
People would get tattooed population numbers on them. So if your tattoo said 12,346, than there were 12,345 people that have arrived before you did at the camp.

9. Bibliography
<United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Concentration Camps, ” June 10, October 21, 2013.>
<Oracle*ThinkQuest. “Life In Japanese Internment Camps.” University of Arizona Library. October 21, 2013.>
<Google.images. “2.jpg”.“Auschwitz-Birkenau.” “concentration camps.” “
Students, Students For. "Concentration Camps." ThinkQuest. Oracle Foundation, Web. 23 Oct