Yes, though it was very hard. Successful escapers include: * Hans Beimler (escaped from Dachau in 1933) * Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler (escaped from Auschwitz in 1944) * Rudolf Reder (escaped from Belzec in 1942) All these escapers wrote reports, books or pamphlets about the camps they escaped from. Witold Pilecki is worth mentioning. He deliberately got himself taken to Auschwitz in 1940 in order to find out what was going on there. He managed to escape in 1943. (Links to all four of these men below).
There were successful escape from a number of concentration camps and extermination camps, including:
If one goes back to the period before World War 2, there were a few successful escapes from Dachau, for example, Hans Beimler.
yes
Yes, if the mother was going to give birth whilst they were in the concentration camps.
yes
A few did, yes.
There are unreliable stories about the use of crucifixion on the Eastern Front, but not in camps.
No, British soldiers taken prisoners by the Gerrmans were sent to prisoner of war (POW) camps, where conditions were much better. A very small number of British prisoners - for example, some of those who kept on trying to escape - were sent to concentration camps. There were also a very small number who were sent to concentration camps by mistake.
no
Yes, if the mother was going to give birth whilst they were in the concentration camps.
yes
A few did, yes.
yes
There were some survivors from most of the camps.
no
No. No one is taken to the concentration camps in Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.
There are unreliable stories about the use of crucifixion on the Eastern Front, but not in camps.
No, British soldiers taken prisoners by the Gerrmans were sent to prisoner of war (POW) camps, where conditions were much better. A very small number of British prisoners - for example, some of those who kept on trying to escape - were sent to concentration camps. There were also a very small number who were sent to concentration camps by mistake.
That meant that who ever was chosen was going to get killed in the gas chamber in the camp.
No, Anne died of Typhus, which is a disease that inhabitants of the concentration camps easily got.