How did people die in the Holocaust?

Answer 1

They were killed in concentration camps. They were starved to death, died of typhus (a disease very popular then) and they were burned to death.

some were killed by mobile killing units. Sometimes they were pulled out of there homes and shot in broad day light! sometimes they would gas them to death then burn their bodies so there was no evidence.

E: Actually, most prisoners were gassed (with carbdon monoxide or later on, zyklon b), then their corpses were burned or buried. This was the preferred method. There were also death marches and mass shootings.

Also, along with typhus, many of them died of dysentery, which ran rampant in the camps.

Answer 2

• By mobile killing units (SD-Einsatzgruppen) in mass open-air shootings.
• By being worked to death as slave labourers on insufficient rations.
• By being forced into hopelessly overcrowded ghettos and refused medication
• Killer diseases were rampant in many camps at various stages.
• By gassing in specially designed vans and especially in gas chambers in extermination camps.

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Originally, there was no co-ordinated plan for the killing of the Jews during the Holocaust. When the Nazis invaded Poland, they herded the Jews into ghettos within the major Polish cities like Warsaw and Lodz. The conditions in the ghettos were atrocious. Many of the ghetto inhabitants died of disease, exposure, and starvation. The ghettos were used in Poland for most of the war.

When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, special SS killing squads came in behind the German Army. These killing squads were known as Einsatzgruppen or special groups. According to written records, Reinhard Heydrich head of the Reich Security Main Office, dispatched these groups in order to deal with partisan forces. Heydrich issued a directive to the special groups stating that the following individuals are to be executed immediately: "all high ranking members of the Communist party, all 'people's commissars', all Jews in service to the party..." But the directive contained another order, "any open hostilities against Jews by the local population are not to be prevented, as a matter of fact, they are to be secretly encouraged." Under the blanket of this directive, the special killing squads stood by while the local population of the occupied territories killed the Jews in public. However, not long after this directive was ordered, the special killing squads began executing members of the local Jewish population. They would order the Jews into the middle of town at a specific time. The Nazis would then order the Jews to march out of town. The Jews were being told that they were going to work. Once the Jews would lead to a certain predesignated location, they were told to dig holes (unless the holes were already dug), then they were made to strip off all of their clothing and to get into the holes. They were then shot in a mass grave. This occurred in many situations throughout the occupied Soviet Territories. Eventually though, the Nazis began experimenting with ways to murder the Jews on a more "efficient" scale.

The Nazis experimented with placing the Jews into a pit and throwing a grenade in. This of course proved to be an extremely disturbing and dangerous operation (dangerous to exposing the secret killings not dangerous to the killers). The Nazis also experimented in the Eastern Territories with chemicals. The Jews would be placed into a pit and then dissolving chemicals would be poured in so that the Jews would be dissolved alive. This also was deemed to be to inhumane (again inhumane for the killers who at this point in time were beginning to lose whatever sanity they had left) so the Nazis moved on to the use of gas.

Originally, the Nazis would use Gas vans. Individuals would be herded into the back of these vans with a hose leading from the exhaust into the back compartment so that those inside would die from exposure to the fumes. After some time, this proved to be inefficient as it did not kill enough human beings at one time.

Around the earlier parts of 1942, the Nazis began the systematic deportations of the Jews from all over Europe to what were known as death camps. There were 6 death camps that existed in Poland although there were others throughout Europe. The 6 camps in Poland are deemed to be the primary locations for the deportations. The camps included, Majdenek, Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Most of these camps would use gas chambers that were connected to trucks in order to kill using carbon monoxide poisoning. The Jews were taken off of the trains and herded into the chambers. They were told that they would be taking a shower and that it would be necessary for them to undress. When they went into the chambers the engines were turned on releasing the gas into the chamber. The cause of death was naturally suffocation.

The largest of the death camp complexes was Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was located in Western Poland. The Nazis used a different type of gas to kill the Jews at Aushwitz. There were problems in using carbon monoxide gas to kill the Jews because there were some occasions in which the engines would not work. The solution, Prussic Acid or what is known as Zyklon B. Zyklon B is a crystallized substance that is used to kill rats and other like pests. When the substance is in a canister, it remains in a solid crystallized form. Exposure to the air causes the crystals to chemically change into the gas. This proved to be the main method of killing at Auschwitz.

Jews were taken off of the trains (if they survived the journey) and selected by an SS doctor. If they were over a certain age and looked healthy enough to work they were sent to the main camp. At the main camp they were usually worked to death within a matter of months. The daily rations given to those individuals was no more than 300 calories per day (a normal American consumes around 1,500 to 2,000 a day). If they did not starve to death they fell prey to the various diseases that were rampant in every concentration camp throughout Nazi occupied territory.

Those Jews who were not selected to go to the camps were sent to the gas chambers. Originally, Auschwitz used several small enclosed cabins to operate as the gas chambers. An individual would lock the victims in the house, throw a canister of gas through an open window, and wait until all inside were dead. As the need to murder more Jews became more important several large gas chambers were built. The chambers were large enough to hold 1,200 individuals. The Jews were told to strip off their clothing because they were to take a shower. They were then sent inside the chamber which had fake faucets in the ceiling to keep suspicions at a minimum. The door was sealed and the gas was dropped into the chamber through vents in the ceilings. It took anywhere from 15-30 minutes for the gas to kill everyone in the chambers. Once all inside were dead the ventilators were turned on to remove the gas from the room. The bodies were placed on an elevator that took them up to the furnances above. The bodies were then incinerated and the ashes were dumped in the nearby river.

Answer 3

Most Jews, like everyone else in concetration camps (miscreants, the "undesired", gypsies, etc.) died primarily by malnutrition and/or disease.

It's highly contested (and a topic of great contention) as to whether or not "gas chambers" were for anything more than delousing with the chemical called Zyklon B.

Answer 4

The victims were murdered; they were:

• Gassed
• Worked to death on grossly inadequate food
• Shot

Many also died of disease.

Many ways. Some starved, some were just worked to death, some were shot & some were gassed.

Answer 5

The Jews were killed:

1. By gassing (or sometimes shooting) in extermination camps
2. By being worked to death on inadequate food in concentration camps
3. In mass, open-air shootings
4. By disease and starvation in ghettos and concentration camps. Conditions were insanitary and these places were deliberately kept overcrowded.

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#1 is probably the largest single category, followed by #3.

AnswerThe Germans sent them to concentration camps and gassed most of them. Some were shot; some were used as slave labour and worked to death on inadequate food. If you would like to learn more there is a good film called Schindler's List. I'm learning it as a gcse it helps a lot to watch it.

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as stated above Jews were shot gassed and other ways killed but they were also Jews were also used for obscene experiments by doctor mengele in aushwitz used as hard labor for building roads worked in factories all with very little food given to them

the Jews were horribly gassed and then there bodys were burned afterwards

* Some were worked to were worked to death on insufficient food! * Many were killed in mass open-air shootings * Well over half were gassed

they were often gassed, shoot, or starved to death. But, sometimes they would experment on them or lead them on death marches.

AnswerThe Germans sent them to concentration camps and gassed most of them. Some were shot; some were used as slave labour and worked to death on inadequate food. If you would like to learn more there is a good film called Schindler's List. I'm learning it as a gcse it helps a lot to watch it.

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as stated above Jews were shot gassed and other ways killed but they were also Jews were also used for obscene experiments by doctor mengele in aushwitz used as hard labor for building roads worked in factories all with very little food given to them

the Jews were horribly gassed and then there bodys were burned afterwards

Answer 6

They died in:

• Mass shootings, especially in the Soviet Union
• Deliberately overcrowded ghettos
• Extermination camps
• Concentration camps

Answer 7

Mostly from the gas chambers.

Answer 8

About six million.