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When Maria Mandel was Chief Warder of the women's camp at Auschwitz, she formed an orchestra and the women in the orchestra were better fed than the others. They had to play anything she requested ...
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What is the name of the concentration camps during the Holocaust?
There were hundreds of concentration camps, extermination camps, ghettos and holding places. So I have added some related links below that have the lists and other important information for you. On one site you need to type in concentration camps in the box labeled "articles" and hit the search button.
What type of prisoners were in the early concentration camps in Germany?
The earliest Nazi concentration camps were intended mainly for: * Communists * Social Democrats * Labour leaders * Dissidents * People against whom influential Nazis had a grudge Some Jews were also sent to concentration camps in 1933-34.
What was the type of activities that took place in concentration camps?
Concentration camps that were not extermination camps had the prisoners working for slave labor. Extermination camps spent 24 hours a day killing the prisoners. Some camps did medical experiments against the "undesirable people". The prisoners spent their time trying to survive starvation, deadly sickness, hyperthermia, heat stroke and dehydration.
What type of camps were Jews sent to?
Jews were sent mainly to extermination camps rather than concentration camps. Please see the related question(s).
What is the purpose of concentration music?
This type of music is geared towards allowing a listener to increase concentration on a task. People listen to this music when they are studying for an exam, reading, working, or thinking about some other task at hand.
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.
Why were they called concentration camps?
The name in German is (Konzentrationslager) that means concentration camp, at first were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the Nazi empire but after the WW2 began Hitler use the first six concentration camps to hold and exterminate jews, homosexuals, gypsies but later he find out he could use those people for work so he created various types of concentration camps: Labour camps: concentration camps where interned inmates had to do hard physical labour under inhuman conditions and cruel treatment. Some of these camps were sub-camps of bigger camps, or "operational camps", established for a temporary need. Transit and collection camps: camps where inmates were collected and routed to main camps, or temporarily held. POW camps: concentration camps where prisoners of war were held after capture. These POW's endured torture and liquidation in a big scale. Hostage camps: camps where hostages were held and killed as reprisals. Extermination camps: These camps differed from the rest, since not all of them were also concentration-camps. Although none of the categories is independent, and each camp could be classified as a mixture of several of the above, and all camps had some of the elements of an extermination camp, still systematic extermination of new-arrivals occured in very specific camps. Of these, three were extermination camps, where all new-arrivals were simply killed -- The "Reinhardt Aktion" camps. Three others were concentration and extermination camps altogether. Others were at times classified as "minor extermination camps."
What did the concentration camps do?
they torterd and burned there enemys in a oven type thing they dug holes and put dead bodys in them :(
Who invented concentration camp?
The term Concentration camp was first used by the British in the Boer wars. this was very different form the concentration camps used in Nazi Germany. they were not death camps but camps in which the family of Boer rebels were imprisoned so that they could not aid the rebels. However concentration camps have been used before this (only they were not called concentration camps) they were used by the Spanish in the 1860's even American soldiers used similar camps on Cherokee and other native Americans in the 1830's so this type of military tactic has been around for a long time, but the term is British. Evidently, there are no real differences, but rather there are similarities between the English and the German concentration camps.
What type camp was Auschwitz?
It was a vast complex of camps. It was a concentration camp and also an extermination camp. Please see the related question.
What type of housing was there in the Gross-Rosen concentration camp?
At Gross-Rosen, as well as other concentration camps, the facilities resembled military camps with barrack style furnishing for the inmates. Inmates were segregated by sex, and in some by age as well. Gross-Rosen housed approximately 120,000 inmates, out of that number approximately 40,000 died either while in the camp, or during evacuation.
Were the Jews killed right away?
That depended on the type of camp they were sent to. At extermination camps the new arrivals were generally gassed with 24 hours. At ordinary concentration camps they were worked to death on grossly insufficient food.
