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The Holocaust CampsLife in a Concentration Camp
By Amanda Keogh, Kathryn Hallett, Madeline Barcia, and Claire Quinn
Different Types of Camps
There were three different types of camps…
Labor Camps
Prison Camps
Extermination Camps
Labor CampsThe war was long and drawn out- Germany needed to find a way to provide more armaments
Had to bring workers from weapon factories into army
Needed new laborers to replace them
There were different types of labor camps..
I.G Farben- chemical giant- produced fuel and synthetic rubber
Krupp's Steel- manufactured tanks, guns, and ammunition
Some camps built warplanes, automobiles (BWM), manufactured dynamite, assembled bombs, sewed uniforms, repaired bridges, airfields, roads and railroad tracks
Prison Camps
First concentration camps
Political necessity
Held Communists, Socialists, Democrats and political Catholics
Dachau was the first prison camp
Twenty barracks
Each held 250 men
The purpose was political control
Extermination Camps
There were four extermination camps in 1941 and two existing
camps were reconstructed in 1942.
Chelmno
Belzec
Sobidor
Treblinka
Majdanek
Auschwitz
Chelmno First extermination camp
Inhabitants were used to build two wooden barracks and high fences
Had five vans that served as gas chambers
Held up to 100 to 150 people each
Drivers would than drive the vans to a field where the corpse were dumped
In that time at least five thousand Gypsies, one hundred thousand Jews, and thousands of other (three hundred forty thousand)
Belzec
First camp with stationary gas chambers
Wooden barracks were replaced by brick building and the
number of gas chambers increased to six
In eight months more than five hundred thousand people were
killed
Sobibor
Modeled after Belzec
Only nineteen Jewish people survived and returned home from
this camp
Treblinka
Last camp whose sole purpose was extermination
Gas chambers were not ready when the first trainloads arrived
so the guards simply shot gunned down them all
Over eight thousand died
Majdanek
Unlike the other death camps it was not hidden from the eyes of
the world
60 percent of the deaths were from work conditions, starvation,
and disease
In three years claimed the lives of nearly two hundred thousand
people
Auschwitz Largest annihilation camp
Hitler’s “Final Solution” was to annihilate Jews
Main operation center
Four enormous gas chambers- killing 15,000 people each day
By the end of 1944 over 2.5 million Jews were killed
Divided into three different camps
Auschwitz 1: concentration camp housing prisioners
Auschwitz 2: death camp
Auschwitz 3: where slave laborers were constructing the largest synthetic rubber
factory in the world
Punishments
Prisoners in camps faced severe punishments
Forced to run through narrow paths between barbed wire
Signs would read “to showers” but they would actually lead to gas chambers
Trapped in gas chambers where they coughed and choked- struggled to escape
Didn’t have room to fall down when they died in the gas chamber
Daily session of torture was awarded to a random inmate random inmate
Thousands of prisoners ran into electric barbed wire, killing themselves, to rid
themselves of the punishments
The Nazi’s believed in severe whipping
Prisoners were either shot or hung if they did not cooperate
A Typical Day...
Prisoners were awoken at 3 am
beds had to be made quickly or faced with 25
lashes
Only one bathroom was available for a group of
four hundred people
Breakfast was severed a 5 pm- given black coffee
Roll call at 6pm
After roll call preformed daily jobs
building railway tracks
carrying stones and coal
sewer repair
sometimes officers would ask workers to
turn around and whip their backs with
sticks until they broke
Lunch was given at noon
meal consisted of cabbage soup
Resumed work at 1 to 6pm
At head count prisoners who did not preform to
their best ability were put through the
“punishment parade”
forced to strip publicly
lie on specially constructed benches
received 25 to 50 lashes
What did concentration camps look like?
For more about living conditions in concentration camps click here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWW8rmWjCI