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Why was anne frank brought to death camp?
easy. she was a Jew
What were prisoners jobs at Auchwitz?
Auschwitz was a extermination camp, unlike other camps, people were brought there solely for the purpose to be exterminated, not to work.
What was Buchenwald's primary method of killing?
Buchenwald was a very harsh, 'ordinary' concentration camp, not an extermination camp. About 25% of the prisoners perished. Most of these were worked to death on insufficient food. Many also died when some of the prisoners were taken on death marches in April 1945. From about late 1944 onwards some prisoners from camps further east were moved to Buchenwald.
What do you call a camp for political prisoners?
Camps for political prisoners have been called a detention center, a concentration camp, prisoner of war camp, labor camp, or gulag.
What happens to Anne franks concentration camp a few weeks after Anne's death?
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne Frank was held, was liberated by British forces in April 1945, a few weeks after Anne's death. The camp was overcrowded, unsanitary, and many prisoners were suffering from disease and malnutrition. The liberation brought an end to the suffering of those held in the camp, but many had already died in the weeks leading up to the liberation.
What was the purpose of a death camp?
The purpose of a death camp was when Jews were sent for mass murdering, (genocide). This is not the same as a concentration camp, only because it was where political prisoners were confined, usually under harsh conditions and the camps functioned as prisons and centers of forced labor.
What is the difference between a Concentration camp and an Extermation camp?
A Concentration camp was used to torture or force their prisoners to work. An extermination camp was where they were all systematically murdered in mass quantities, and in horrific ways. (An extermination camp was also known as a death camp.) I hope this helps you.
Was Neuengamme a death camp?
Technically, Neuengamme (with its 80 sub-camps) was a concentration camp. However, it had an unusually high death rate. About 50% of the 106,000 prisoners sent to the Neuengamme group of camps perished. See link.
How many people survived the sandakan death march?
6 survived the camp/march. Initially about half of the some-1000 prisoners transferred survived the march but did not survive the camp.
What was in the lorry that was brought to the ditch How did Elie react to what he saw?
The lorry contained the bodies of prisoners who had died during the journey to the concentration camp. Elie was horrified and in disbelief at the sight, feeling numb and unable to fully comprehend the extent of the suffering and death around him.
How would they kill you in a death camp?
The extermination camps relied mainly on gassing to kill. Some prisoners were shot and at some of the camps they were worked to death on inadequate food.
What did they do to prisoners at Dachau Concentration Camp?
Work them to death until the soilders think they getting to weak and they would kill them for slow works.
