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They were used as forced labourers in a wide range of jobs, including: * Quarrying * Coal minining * Chemicals * Armaments industry (construction of V2 rockets, for example) * Textiles Some were used to help with the Holocaust itself! They had to operate the crematoria and/or dig mass graves ...
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∙ 11y agoDifferent death camps had different names for them. Auschwitz being the most famous camp and the one where most survivors of a Death Camp came from has the most recognisable name: Sonderkommando.
This is a blanket term for them, there were many different roles and different detachments. Some people who worked in death camps were (for example) tailors and they never had to witness the horrors that other workers had to endure.
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What was done in concentraion camps?
the Nazi took the Jews to the camps. If the Jews where to old or young to work they would kill them by burning or shooting just because Hitler didn't like Jews. the Jews who work were work to death or hang.
What did the Jewish death camps keep the Jews from doing?
The death camps kept the Jews from living!
How many types of concentration camps are there?
1) Work camps, where inmates were payed meager salaries for back breaking work. 2) Standard concentration camps where Jews were worked to death. 3) Death camps where the sole purpose was to destroy as many Jews as possible as quickly as possible.
Why didn't the process of emigration (leaving Germany) work or he Jews?
All the jews had to go to the death camps...
Why were the Jews in the concentration camps not the death camps?
They were in both..
How did Hitler get the Jews to the death camps?
Jews were sent there by Train.
How the Jews were transported to the death camps.?
Trains!
Which were facilities built by the Nazis to imprision Jews?
Concentration camps, Extermination camps and Death camps
Did the Jews know were they where going in 1941?
No. Most Jews were unaware of the existence and purpose of the Concentration Camps and the Death Camps.
When Jews first arrived in the death camps they were given showers then put to work true or false?
false on both counts. Though this is what happened in concentration camps.
What were the places where the Jews were murdered called?
Death Camps
How were Jews killed 1941 onwards?
Jews were killed in many various ways such as;Stavation - In the Ghettos where the Jews had only 153 calories a dayGas Vans - Used on the disabled.Machine guned - In to pits the Jews had dug out,Sent to -Death camps (Treblinka and Chelmno)Work camps (Aushwitz through selection)Concentration camps (Dachau)Death marches - At the end of the war, a womans work camp were sent to walk off a cliff and if they tried to escape they were gunned down
