What Happened During The Holocaust

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As I was walking through the Belsen Camp, I was overwhelmed with what I was seeing. I could hardly believe what was happening during the Holocaust. Barbed wire and watch towers surrounded the camp. The inmates were living in filth with very limited supply of water and food. They were so malnourished that they looked like walking skeletons. As I walked deeper into the camp, I saw corpses laying on the ground where grass used to be. Inmates were forced to drag some of the corpses into pits in order to earn food. They were forced to live in unsanitary and inhumane conditions. Their clothes were old and dirty with no way to replace or repair them. Lack of water and soap brought lice and lice carried Typhus, a bacteria. Many people died from Typhus because the German officers didn’t care for them. As I walked through the Belsen Camp, I saw many pits which were filled with dead bodies of men, women, and children. I was filled with grieve and anger after seeing this. I left Belsen Camp and then went to visit Dachau and Buchenwald. …show more content…
Men, women, and children died from hunger and sickness. Many people were forced to cram into boxes to sleep. This led to more sickness. Poison gas chambers were used to kill those sick prisoners. Healthy prisoners were also killed. They were forced into a room, where they would be killed. They were alive and they felt everything with their every last breaths. It was like Hell on Earth for them. Their clothes did not go to waste however, as they were repaired by the prisoners and resold to use for new prisoners. In Buchenwald, the same barbaric things occurred. People were tortured methodically. Their slave numbers were forcibly tattooed on their bellies. If a prisoner had any interesting tattoos, their skin was cut off along with the

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