It was a Slaughterhouse

Aushwitz was the largest of its kind. It was a concentration camp complex, which had three separate camps inside it. One of the camps was, for a long time, strictly for killing people. The picture above shows the prisoners of the camp doing forced labor. The people in these camps were taken from their homes not knowing what was going to happen them or what to expect. Many of them, unfortunately, did not make it to the end of the war. When a soldier or soldiers appeared at the doorstep of these people’s homes, there was a feeling of uncertainty and anticipation of what was going to happen. Upon arriving at the camps the anticipation quickly turned to fear because no one knew what was going to happen to them and if they would ever see their family again. As time passed by the fear turned to dread because after being at the camp for a period of time, it was easy to figure out that there was a slim chance of survival due to lack of nutrition and that everyday there was more and more bodies to dispose of. The fear and uncertainty carried out into the rest of the world because there was a major world war was under way. This photograph could be just a normal day at the factor if just glanced at, but it is much more. The people in there all have a history and story and much of which was lost.