World War II (WWII) began on September 3, 1939, and the concentration camps began in 1933 (Concentration Camps). Concentration camps are camps, mostly Jews and are made to work and are given very little food, also Jews live in barracks with other people of the same sex (concentration camps). Auschwitz, opened in 1940, was the single largest Nazi concentration camp, extermination camp in southern Poland (Personal History). Also, the article talked about Josef Mengele who did medical experiments (History Staff.) In the book Auschwitz by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli it talked about a doctor who did “scientific research” on prisoners and very few of the workers managed to get out of the rooms gas and survived the Holocaust (Nyiszli). For example, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was one of the few assistants of Dr. Josef Mengele (Nyiszli). Surviving a concentration camp was difficult for people and the only option was to stay alive and fight. Surviving was only an option for Dr. Nyiszli. In 1944 Dr. Nyliszli was among the first Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz (Nyiszli 15.) When he arrived at Auschwitz ...