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Annotated Bibliography: Concentration Camps

Holocaust | A Call to Conscience. The Killing Machine, www.projetaladin.org/

holocaust/en/history-of-the-holocaust-shoah/the-killing-machine/concentration-

camps.html. Accessed 14 Mar. 2017.

This article was produced by Project Aladin and describes all the terrible torment the

Jews went through at the concentration camps. In the article, it talks about the how many

camps there were and the difference of extermination camps and labor camps. In these

camps, Jews were forced to give up all their possessions and then were sent to the gas

chambers or labor camps. The gas chambers were one of the two ways of exterminating

the Jews. The other way of exterminating the Jews was just shooting them. If the

Germans didnt like how the Jews were working they would just shoot them. The Nazis

also would have selection every day and kill up to 20 Jews in the morning. This article is

reliable because it is a trusted website by having copyrighting their info and being a

website that uses .org. This article can help anyone trying to learn about the harmful

procedures that went on in the camp.

Taylor, Alan. World War 11: The Holocaust. The Atlantic, The Atlantic Media Company, 16

Oct. 2011, www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/10/world-war-ii-the-holocaust/100170/.

Accessed 15 Mar. 2017.

This article was written by Alan Taylor for the company The Atlantic Media Company.

this article talks about the procedures and the treatment of the Jews. The Germans made

Jews sleep in bunk beds in a barn type building called barracks. They were forced to fit

up to 5 people in each bunk bed. The Germans also forced the Jews to work long, brutal

hours and served them very little food rations. Due to starvation, 40 to 50 Jews died each
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day. The Germans then made piles of Jews that were over 5 feet high and were waiting to

be burned. This article is reliable because it is relevant information written by a writer for

a company. This can help anyone who wants to know what the Jews went through at the

concentration camps.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org/wlc/mobile/en/article.php?

Moduleld=10005144. Accessed 14 Mar. 2017

In this article created by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum talks about the

different kind of concentration camps that were built. The Germans also built transit

camps. These transit camps were made to hold Jews before they were transported to the

major camps like Auschwitz and Treblinka. The transit camps also were used to hold

Prisoners of War or POWs. They treated the POWs just like Jews and looked at them

as being inferior also. This source is reliable because it comes from a museum that is only

based of the holocaust. This source would be helpful for anyone who wants to learn about

the other camps that were created or if they captured POWs and how they treated them.

Wiesel, Elie. Night, Elie Wiesel. 1st ed., Hill and Wang, 2006, New York, NY.

The book Night is written by a holocaust survivor who went through many struggles

during his life at the camps. Elie had a hard time believing in his faith and constantly

questioned if there really was a God due to the torture he was suffering. He continues

talks about how the Nazis treated the Jews and how the camps looked in the book. He

stated the that they worked over 18 hours a day and were served stale bread and watered

down soup every day. Elie also said there was a head physician, Dr. Mengele, that

decided which Jews were unfit and which ones were fit to work. The unfit Jews including
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woman, children, and mentally disabled Jews went to the crematoriums and were killed,

while the Jews that were in shape and fit to withstand the brutal hours went to labor

camps to work. The head physician also used to select Jews to preform experiments on

them and was nicknamed The Angel of Death. This book is reliable because the story is

real facts coming from a holocaust survivor. This book would help anyone who wants to

learn the story of their experiences in the camps.