What was it like in the concentration camps?
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1. Holocaust Encyclopedia
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So, what was it like in the concentration camps?
Life in the concentration camps was either forced labor, at the labor camps, or straight to death, at the death camps (Website #1). In the forced labor camps, thousands of prisoners died from exhaustion, starvation, and exposure. Prisoners selected for work were housed in wooden or brick barracks, where they were supposed to house around 60 people, and they would usually just squeeze about 700 people into the same area (Website #2). In the concentration camps, the prisoners would be forced to work and were given very little to eat (Website #3). The were forced to wear striped uniforms and armbands or labels to identify what kind of prisoner they were, the different bands color represented the different kinds of people. Due to the disease, most people died in the concentration camps or they were deported to the other kind of concentration camp, the death camps (Website #3).
During the holocaust, the use of death camps was how most people imprisoned were killed. To facilitate the "Final Solution" the Nazis would establish killing centers in Poland, they killing centers were designed for efficient mass murder (Website #1). Jews that were deported to the death camps were either shot on sight, or killed in the gas chambers (Website #3). These gas chambers were tightly sealed and when prisoners were led into the them they would release carbon monoxide into the room killing everybody in the chamber. Prisoners that exhibited useful strength were made part of the sonderkammondo, inmates that were forced to collect the dead bodies and put them into the crematoriums to be burned (Website #3).
Auschwitz-Birkenau was one of the only concentration camps to be both a labor camp and a death camp (Website #3). In 1941, Auschwitz prisoners worked in factories to help supply for the German war movement. Also, more prisoners were killed in Birkenau than in any other death camps, about 1.1 million, most of whom were Jews (Website #3).
During the holocaust, the use of death camps was how most people imprisoned were killed. To facilitate the "Final Solution" the Nazis would establish killing centers in Poland, they killing centers were designed for efficient mass murder (Website #1). Jews that were deported to the death camps were either shot on sight, or killed in the gas chambers (Website #3). These gas chambers were tightly sealed and when prisoners were led into the them they would release carbon monoxide into the room killing everybody in the chamber. Prisoners that exhibited useful strength were made part of the sonderkammondo, inmates that were forced to collect the dead bodies and put them into the crematoriums to be burned (Website #3).
Auschwitz-Birkenau was one of the only concentration camps to be both a labor camp and a death camp (Website #3). In 1941, Auschwitz prisoners worked in factories to help supply for the German war movement. Also, more prisoners were killed in Birkenau than in any other death camps, about 1.1 million, most of whom were Jews (Website #3).