Life Differences in the Holocaust essays

Life Differences in the Holocaust essays In the book "Farewell to Manzanar", by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and the book "March to Freedom: A Memoir of the Holocaust" by Edith Singer we discuss the ways they lived their life in concentration camps during the war. Keeping in mind both concentration camps are different. We will look at "Life" before and after the war as Jeanne and Edith both encounter In the beginning at Auschwitz, the concentration camp consisted of only women in the camp that was separated by the fittest. The young girls who were physically developed and looked older along with women who were 45- 50 years old had a chance to live. The rest of the women (Old ladies, pregnant women, babies and girls too young) were all sent to the gas chamber and cremated. (25) At Auschwitz the women slept on wooden bunk beds. They had no pillows, no mattresses and no blankets. The bunk beds were three levels high and it was fifteen females per level. They all had to sleep in one direction as there was no room to move around. (35) Jeanne, in "Farewell to Manzanar", explains she and her family were able to all live together. They were not separated by women only and no one was killed due to age or gender. They lived in a barracks as well, but their living space consisted of two 16'x 20' rooms (about a size of a living room) for 12 people. They also had an oil stove for heat and one bare bulb hanging from the ceiling for light. Jeanne and her family were issued steel army cots for sleeping, 2 brown blankets, and some mattress covers for each Their daily food supply in either camp wasn't too appealing. Singer explains when she got to Auschwitz; they would hardly get any food. The women in the camp were poorly fed, always starving. She recalls a moment where she was waiting in line to get a bowl of soup. "Which part of the soup will I get?" She says, "Will it be from the top of the kettle and very ...