Essays on Nazi Concentration Camps

Abraham here; I'm a Jew residing in Warsaw, Poland. It is the year 1943. I'm thirty years old. My wife and I have a son and a girl as children. Right now, I'm residing in the Warsaw ghetto. It is Poland's biggest slum. Three hundred and eighty thousand Jews live there,...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a story set in a labor camp that describes a single day in the life of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Shukhov was apprehended by the Germans, who suspected him...

Simon Wiesenthal's Experience in the Concentration Camp Simon Wiesenthal recalls his experience as a concentration camp inmate. He describes the camp's living conditions, especially an incident in which he was taken to the deathbed of a Nazi SS officer who begged Simon's forgiveness. Karl's Selfish and Insincere Repentance Karl, the SS soldier, outlined...