Extermination And Concentration Camps

One of the many reasons why the jewish called them “DEATH CAMPS”. (living conditions, labor and executions)

The conditions of the camp were unbearable. The prisoners were barely fed, mainly bread and water, and were cramped in small sleeping arrangements. "Hundreds slept in triple-tiered rows of bunks (Adler 51)." In the quarters that they stayed, there were no adequate cleaning facilities or restrooms for the prisoners. They rarely were able to change clothes which meant the "clothes were always infested with lice (Swiebocka 18)." Those were sick went to the infirmary where also there were eventually killed in the gas chambers or a lethal injection. The Germans did not want to have anyone not capable of hard work to live. Prisoners were also harshly punished for small things such as taking food or "relieving themselves during work hours (Swiebocka 19)." The biggest punishment was execution. The most common punishment was to receive lashings with a whip.

People were basically removed from their homes, barred from daily activities, and forced to live in uncleanliness in ghettos throughout Germany and the countries that the Nazis took over (Cureton, 2013). Further research by Cureton is that the rest were forced into labor, while many were confined to prison for their beliefs, race, religion, or for political purposes.

The SS officers would put everyone through selection and only the grown and strong would survive. Truckloads of children “Babies! Yes...children thrown into the pit of flames”(Wiesel 32) and grown men hung for all to see, their bodies waving in the wind like a flag. For those who did survive selection, they lost their names and were tattooed with their new titles “‘A-7713?’ ‘That’s me.’”(Wiesel 51) The Jews were consistently treated like animals by the Nazi’s and if that was not enough, they were also told how worthless they were.

Most of these camps were used for the elimination of the Jews. There were also camps that were mainly just for torture purposes and the Jews had to work until death. The Jews that were in these camps were also put into striped uniforms and had limited food like one piece of bread a day, these were awful living conditions.

The Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp could be both a good, and bad place to be. The camp had mainly held Jewish people, and other political prisoners. Many prisoners would come from other camps, but few would go, alive that is.

in the concentration camps, that death was inevitable in the camps, so surviving alongside their

,and the huts were absolutely terrible.Usually the camp was at a food shortage and the soldiers

was made of saw dust and flour, they were made to do excruciating work, and they

Why were people put in concentration camps? Well that's due to what they were guilty of like a crime sort of and what race/religion they were. However concentration camps were not just used for work some were for killing and some were used for torture. Some kids got thrown in the camps where they kill you only because they couldn't use you for work or anything because you were too young. When you got thrown into a centration camp it was usually for your race/religion. When people usually think of concentration camps they think of torture and work and things like that but that's not the only thing that they will throw you in there for they will also throw you in there to kill you.

Inmates resembled skeletons and were so weak they were unable to move. The smell of burning bodies was ever present and piles of corpses were scattered around the camp. However, you could be “saved” from the crematoria to be used as test subjects to cruel experimentation and used as lab rats for any experiment the scientists wanted to conduct. Later in the war, extermination camps were built. These were specialized for the mass murder of Jews using Zyklon B to ensure a painful, long, and torturous death. The bodies would then be thrown into the fire and all clothes, teeth, and shoes would be sent to pursue the German war front. At max efficiency, 20,000 people would be killed in the gas chambers a day. As the red Army approached near to liberate the Jews in concentration and extermination camps, SS officers sent prisoners on a death march across hundreds of miles, where they ran with no food or water, no matter the weather, until they reached the closest camp. SS officers proceeded to blow up the camps to hide the genocide from the

Eventually Jews and other ‘undesirables’ were sent to death camps, while others went to forced labour camps and used as slaves to produce materials for weapons in war, and a range of goods, such as shoes, clothes and good. These death camps

In the Nazi camps, troublesome people would be killed. This all goes together to

camps used prisoners for forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a

In the winter jews would get frostbite, colds, and pneumonia. Many people got sick because the camps were so crowded. Some illnesses that they suffered are, tuberculosis, diarrhea, malaria, and meningitis. Some also got skin disease, rashes, and scabies that got infected. Starvation happened to most Jews because they didn’t get fed enough. They had tea or coffee for breakfast, watery soup for lunch, and a piece of black bread with a small piece of meat or cheese for supper. The bread they had for supper was meant to last for breakfast too. If the prisoners got too weak, they were sent to be