Living Conditions in Auschwitz
This is a photo of Auschwitz ^
The Holocaust is a depressing time in history.People are horrified at the stories of survivors of concentration camps. These people were chosen based on their religion to be sent to these camps. Many camps were established but Auschwitz is the number one camps among the rest.
The living conditions in Auschwitz were terrible because living space was cramped, roll call and food was inhumane, and gas chambers were horrifying.Being sent to Auschwitz as a new home was a very scary, sudden, trip. More than 700 people were assigned to one brick barrack.(groiler) Several hundred people were assigned to one wooden barrack. (grolier ) Dampness, leaky roofs, and disgusting smells is what everyone looked forward to when going into the concentration camp( living conditions )
Dead people at the concentration camps
barb wire and a barrack behind in Auschwitz
Living Conditions
There are two different types of barracks in Auschwitz, the two types are, wood and brick. The wood barracks can fit up to four hundred prisoners lived in each barrack, the living conditions were outrageous and the smells were unbearable.(living conditions).Brick barracks can fit more than 700 people were assigned to one barrack, these were very uncomfortable. ( living conditions ). Not only were the barracks cramped and uncomfortable, there was also many unhealthy things that went on. Dampness, Leaky roofs, and fouling of straw and virus sorts of vermin rats were some of the unbearable things that went on in the barracks. Auschwitz is the largest camp.(concentration camps fact)
When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror." - Adolf Hitler
Cremations
Prisoners called sunderkommando or "misunderstood" were forced to bury the corpses, or burn them in ovens and bury the remain.( holocaust survivor) . This job is sicking. In 1944, 20,000 people got gassed each day!(Groiler) When burning the bodies they were piled into the chambers,even people that were alive were still put into the burner.( Holocaust surviver) the "execution chambers"(James peckiage)
Gas Chambers
When being sent into the gas chambers, people were scared and worried, knowing this is the last few minutes of there lives. When the Nazis would get a prisoner and lock 20-30 people into a room.(holocaust) Then, pellets were placed into a compartment directly above the chair.( holocaust) The Nazi then pulls a lever to drop the pellets. (holocaust) Guards wear oxygen masks, and then get rid of the bodies after they die. (holocaust)" At least 75% of the jews in each trasport of 2,000 to 3,000 prisoners were deemed unfit for work and were destined for the gas chambers."- (dr death)
Clothing, Food, Roll Call
Thease three things are the major things that happened in the concentration camps. Victims clothing and all there valuables were systematically disposed of, Even gold in there mouth was melted down.(Holocaust) Every morning and evening everyone was forced to line up in a straight line motionless for several hours.( auschawitz) Anyone that was missing, everyone would have to stand in the hot humid weather or the freezing weather all over again.(Auschwitz) Not only was roll call torture, so was the food. In the morning, everyone would get a slice of bread and a around coffee made from water and acorns.(Holocaust) At lunch they would receive soup made of potato peels and beats.(holocaust) For dinner they would get a slice of bread and they would try to eat grass and roots to try to stay alive. (holocaust) "Everyone worked so hard, got beaten up…and came back to the camp -- the exhaustion alone pushed him to the bunk to lie down and sleep throughout the night and get enough strength so that s/he might be able to do that again tomorrow. …In the morning, sixty percent of the six people in the bunk did not wake up. The other forty percent went over the pockets of the dead people to find a piece of bread…The hygienic condition was very, very poor in that period. I remember that I searched a dead body in the bunk and I found a piece of bread. That piece of bread was crawling with lice and you shook them off the bread and put it in your mouth and ate it. We all were crawling with lice. Taking a shower was not an option. To get out in the morning, to walk toward the barrack where there is water, running water & endash; you didn't want to walk through mud. If you walked through the mud you probably lost a shoe and then you had to go barefoot. So it would be damned if I do and damned if I don't. Those were the conditions."(ashwini kulkarni)
roll call in auschawitz
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Big Bird said
at 12:26 pm on May 12, 2010
I like some of the pictures that you have! The first one at the top is really cool.
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