"When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become places of imprisonment for the elderly, but instruments of terror" - Adolf Hitler. From arrival in the concentration camps, to life in the camp, and to the death process, concentration camp prisoners suffered not only physical pain and excruciating horror, but also traumatic mental experiences. The pain and horror of the concentration camps would never disappear from the prisoner's mind; it was always there as a haunting reminder of evil cruelty. The concentration camps displayed terrifying visions of traumatic events that caused humans to examine how barbaric they can be. Concentration camps were built throughout Europe. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler began appointing people to build and plan the evil camps. over the next twelve years, more than ten thousand concentration camps were built. They called them concentration camps because the prisoners were physically concentrated" (Nazi concentration camps). To bring them to the brutal camps they were taken from the Ghettos where they lived temporarily, but they did not know that they would go to such a tormenting place. They thought that the living conditions ghettos were bad, but what they were about to experience was the worst of all. "To deport prisoners from ghetto communities, the Nazis made them believe they were going to a better place to live. They did it so they wouldn't fight. But in reality they were deported either to a concentration or extermination camp depending on their strength and conditions" (Jewish life during the Holocaust). The trains they loaded to reach the camps were cattle wagons and had only a bucket of water and a bucket... middle of paper... April 7, 2013. PBS Video. April 27, 2014. .Doran, Meta. "Holocaust Survivor Describes Life in Nazi Concentration Camps." Jason Bean. Las Vegas Review Journal, January 25, 2014. Web. April 27, 2014. “Jewish Life During the Holocaust.” , 2014. Web. April 27, 2014. “Holocaust Living Conditions.” The Holocaust Explained: Homework and Online Education Tool for Students, 2011. Web. April 27, 2014. “Campi. of Nazi concentration and imprisonment". YouTube. YouTube, 14 June 2012. Web. 27 April. 2014. .