The Horrible Conditions of Women in the Nazi Concentration Camps

The feeding of the prisoners was a major issue in the concentration camps during the holocaust. The jewish prisoners were fed three times a day in the concentration camps, those three times were morning, noon, and evening. (living conditions, labor and executions) It wasn’t the amount of food given a day that was an issue the nutritional value that the Nazis had for the concentration camps. (living conditions, labor and executions) When the Nazis would feed the prisoners they gave the less physically demanding workers one thousand three hundred calories per day and gave the ones who engaged in hard labor one thousand seven hundred calories per day. (living conditions, labor and executions) This was an issue because after several weeks on such starvation in the camps, most prisoners began to experience what is called organic deterioration that led to the well known “Muzulman” state. (living conditions, labor and executions) This was when the prisoners ended being so tiny, extreme physical exhaustion, and soon ended up in death. (living conditions, labor and executions) In march 31, 1942 the WVHA established a minimum working day of 11 hour in all concentration camps. Labor in some concentration camps was the way of destroying prisoners, they worked them until they died. (living conditions, labor and executions) The prisoners usually labored in various sectors of

Have you ever heard of the nasty, disgusting, and horrible conditions that jews had to suffer with in concentration camps during the Holocaust? Lice and fleas are a big part of conditions in concentration camps, another horrible condition in the camps are diseases and sanitation, lastly another awful condition in concentration camps is mass murder and starvation. Many people died in concentration camps during the Holocaust because of the environment the jews had to live in and deal with, and many families were split and torn apart because loved ones of theirs had died because of the horrible conditions in the camps.

A meal time was one of the most important times of the day, for a prisoner. In the morning, a prisoner would be fed coffee or herbal tea. The Holocaust Explained states “For lunch prisoners would be given a litre of watery soup. If they were lucky, they might find a piece of turnip or potato peel.” (The Holocaust Explained.org 2014). For dinner, black bread, a tiny piece of sausage, and cheese. The black bread was supposed to be able to last prisoners throughout the night, and into the morning. Because of the bread’s durability, many prisoners secretly hid and stashed amounts of black bread to eat. In camps like Belzec, food was placed on a high value within the life of the prisoners, making reason for them to smuggle and steal it. But because of the constant work, brutality, and small portions of food that were given to the prisoners, many died and suffered from sickness caused by hunger. Through this, weight and muscle tissue were barely left on the bodies of the prisoners, with the lack of food and

According to the Preface to the Study of Women and the Holocaust, "every Jew, regardless of gender, was equally a victim in the Holocaust" (Ringelheim 17). Women, men and children were equally threatening to the Nazis. Children were seen as "the next generation of Jews" and, therefore, would have to be banned too. "Jewish women and men experienced unrelieved suffering during the

In the morning we got metal cups and spoons. We were each given two slices of bread and sometimes a pat of margarine or a little bit of marmalade. The coffee was toasted acorns ground up. It tasted terrible. The midday meal was potato soup with maybe a li ttle bit of meat. Potatoes were the main ingredient and the kind of beets you normally feed to cattle. We were already hungry in the Theresienstadt ghetto because we did not get enough to eat. In Auschwitz we were beginning to starve. In the evening we go t another slice of bread, some coffee, no marmalade, no butter, no nothing.

In Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoners were provided rations of food ("Auschwitz-Birkenau: Living Conditions, Labor and Executions"). Jews were given three meals every day; one in the morning, noon and at night ("Auschwitz-Birkenau: Living Conditions, Labor and Executions"). Prisoners who did little work received 1,300 calories and those who did handfuls received 1,700 calories of what was served ("Auschwitz-Birkenau: Living Conditions, Labor and Executions"). They worked tediously for ten or more hours daily. If not at work, their time was prioritized in roll call assemblies, getting in line for food or removing dirt/pests from their own clothing ("Auschwitz-Birkenau: Living Conditions, Labor and

The Holocaust is one of the darkest times in history. Man’s viciousness against man is the cause of the mass murder of men, women, and children. They did not just die, they suffered, they suffered by starving, horrible living conditions, and being very badly mistreated. They lived in fear and were violently taken from their homes and families. It would have been an awful time and place to live in, and hopefully there will never be events like this happen in the

In this camp workers were literally worked to death with no breaks and little food. When prisoners were brought to the camp they separated them into two groups, the right and left. Most women and children were put into the left group and were gassed to death. The right side was mostly men and stronger women, this group got their heads shaved and were put to work. About seven million people were killed in concentration camps during the holocaust. With 1.1 million of them being children and about 5 million of them being jews. Prisoners were forced to wear different colored triangles so that guards would know that person’s background. Guards would place people in different groups based on their triangles, most groups were treated differently based on their triangles. Soldiers that had been captured were either executed or worked to death. Men and women were grouped into groups based on how strong they were and if the Nazis could use them for forced labor. To transport people from concentration camp to concentration camp, they would shove about 120 people into small carts. When they were let out of these carts about twenty to thirty were dead because these trips lasted two to three days and they didn’t have any water or

When Dana returns from living as a slave in the Antebellum South, she identifies with accounts of survivors from the Holocaust during World War II. She compares the horrible acts of the Nazis to the behavior of slave holders who worked at every turn to demean enslaved people and lessen their humanity. While the monstrosities of the Holocaust may have been more intense over a shorter period of time, Butler points out that those who lived through slavery endured conditions just as horrible over a much longer duration. Yet while Americans are largely comfortable acknowledging the events of the Holocaust as the worst impulses of mankind, there is often more hesitancy to take responsibility for the degradations of enslaved people that took place

After the deathly and Holocaust how did Jews ever recover? It was hard. When the Nazis were in control of Germany they took the citizenship of Jews in Germany. When the Nazis took Jews from other parts of Europe they took their nationality. So when Jews were released from Nazi rules they had no place to go, no passport, no nothing. After many camps were liberated victims went to displaced persons (DP)

War is inevitable. Throughout history we’ve solved problems with other countries with war. Millions of lives are lost, but those people did not die in vain. From the Cold War to World War 1 to World War 2, as long as countries and nations continue to want more power and land, war will always occur. One of the most horrific wars in history was World War 2. This involved the Germans wiping out almost more than half the Jewish population due to Adolf Hitler’s beliefs. The dictatorship of Hitler was one that went down in history that will always be remembered for as long as we live. During Hitler's time as Dictator, there were many things happening against the Jewish. They were Isolated from everyone in the world, the creation known as concentration

During the Holocaust, food was extremely important. Meals meant survival, in a way. A woman, Kitty Hart-Moxon describes how important this was to them, “The dead body had a piece of bread...” “... I’m taking this piece of bread from this dead body... ... and I’m taking this one pair of boots and I can sell it. With this I can buy myself a place to live. I can buy myself a place to sleep. With this bread I bought myself a bit of access [to wash]. Your bowl was your life, without your bowl you didn’t eat.” (Kitty - Return to Auschwitz, YTV 1979) For breakfast they would receive coffee or herbal tea. For lunch, they got a type of watery soup and possibly meat. If they were lucky that day they would get potato peel or turnip. It is said that the German Army set the calories per day at 2,200 for the Soviet fighters. The Jews would receive water. Beets were commonly given to them, especially the leaves. They would receive them in two-week rations. Also they would get sausage made from horsemeat. “I remember one time we got a piece of sausage made out of horse meat. To us it was the best kind of sausage. You never got sausage. We used to call it “slide sausage.” Everyone would get two or three thin slices. We called it “slide sausage.” Why slide? Because we would put it on a piece of bread and smell the sausage. Before we took a bite, we would slide it away, so you

The experimentation on prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps influenced how the world views crimes against humanity. The Nazis did numerous experiments on the prisoners in the concentration camps. Most of them they were forms of torture rather than “experiments”. They tried keeping them secret so the allied troops would not know about them but the allied troops were advancing rather quickly. The Nazis would burn everything to the ground when the allies got to close for comfort. When the allies got to close to Auschwitz the Nazis left and when the allies got pushed back the Nazis came back and lit the buildings on fire and shot up all the housing to try and kill as many prisoners as possible. When the Nazis left for good they set up

In 1944, medical doctor Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew and family man, arrived at the Auschwitz camp in Poland. In an effort to stay alive after being separated from his daughter and wife—though he feared his days would soon be counted—he volunteered to work as a pathologist under Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele. Working under the supervision of a Nazi superior meant one became Sonderkommando. As a Sonderkommando, one had the privilege to wear civilian clothes and receive better meals. Hence, working for Dr. Mengele, Dr. Nyiszli had certain privileges other Jewish prisoners did not obtain.

The Holocaust was a watershed moment in history that witnessed the torture and extermination of more than six millions lives, both men and women. The suffering and persecution experienced by men and women in the Holocaust has often been generalized into a universal experience. But the truth is, gender had a profound impact on how men and women experienced the tragic event, especially in the concentration camps. The female experience refers to the encounters they had with the Nazi regime and the ways they reacted to such treatment. The essay also focuses solely on Jewish women, as their lives were frequently different from that of the non-Jewish women.