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The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

The Holocaust Camps Life 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 Camps.

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The Holocaust Camps Life in a Concentration Camp

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  1. The Holocaust CampsLife in a Concentration Camp • By Amanda Keogh, Kathryn Hallett, Madeline Barcia, and Claire Quinn

  2. Different Types of Camps There were three different types of camps… • Labor Camps • Prison Camps • Extermination Camps

  3. Labor Camps The 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

  4. 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

  5. Extermination Camps There were four extermination camps in 1941 and two existing camps were reconstructed in 1942. • Chelmno • Belzec • Sobidor • Treblinka • Majdanek • Auschwitz

  6. 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)

  7. 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

  8. Sobibor • Modeled after Belzec • Only nineteen Jewish people survived and returned home from this camp

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. A Typical Day... • 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 • 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

  14. What did concentration camps look like?

  15. For more about living conditions in concentration camps click here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWW8rmWjCI

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