"When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become retirement homes, but instruments of terror" - Adolf Hitler. Since arrival in the concentration camps, life in the camp and the process of dying, concentration camp prisoners suffered not only excruciating physical pain and horror, but also mental traumatic experiences. The pain and horror of the concentration camps will never disappear from the prisoner's mind; it was always there as a haunting memory of evil cruelty. The concentration camps showed horrific views of traumatic events that caused humans to examine how barbaric humans can be. "Concentration camps were built throughout Europe. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler began appointing people to build and design the evil camps. More Over the next twelve years, more than ten thousand concentration camps They called them concentration camps because the prisoners were physically concentrated” (Nazi concentration camps), to bring them to the brutal camps, they were taken to the ghettos where they lived temporarily, but they did not know. that they were going to such a tormenting place. They thought the living conditions in the ghettos were very bad, but what they were about to experience was the worst of all "For the Nazis to expel the prisoners from the. ghetto communities, they made them believe that they were going to live in a better place. They did this so they wouldn't fight. But in reality, they were deported either to a concentration camp or an extermination camp depending on their strength and condition” (Jewish Life during the Holocaust). The trains they loaded to go to the camps were cattle cars and they only had a bucket of water and a pail... middle of paper...... April 7, 2013. PBS Video. Internet. April 27, 2014. .Doran, Meta. “Holocaust survivor describes life in Nazi concentration camps.” Interview conducted by Jason Bean. Las Vegas Review Journal. Las Vegas Review Journal, January 25, 2014. Web. April 27, 2014. “Jewish Life During the Holocaust.” The Holocaust Center. Jewish Federations of North America, Inc., 2014. Web. April 27, 2014. “Living Conditions During the Holocaust.” The Holocaust Explained - Online homework and education tool for students. The Jewish Cultural Center, 2011. Web. April 27, 2014. “Nazi concentration and prisoner camps.” YouTube. YouTube, June 14, 2012. Web. April 27. 2014. .