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By no means did all of them survive - many, many Jewish musicians died in the concentration camps. But if you were a good musician, it bought you time. The Gestapo liked to have a band playing when marching prisoners - especially children - to the gas chambers, believing it helped to calm them. The inmates who could play well - Jewish or not - were kept around longer, because they were useful. This, in the long run, increased their chances for survival, though it by no means guaranteed it.
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∙ 8y agoIn many camps orchestras were established from the inmates, supposedly to bolster morale. For example in Auschwitz I; the orchestra was at the main gate, playing when people went out to work and when they returned. This orchestra was also only meters away from where they would leave the corpses of those who had been hanged (as an example).
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If in a concentration camp if you could play music what would happen?
If you did you would be rich but most Jews were stripped of possetions including clothes before sent to the camps. Thank You for your question.
What would happen to you if you were caught hiding Jews during the Holocaust?
During World War II, the fate of Jews caught in Germany or occupied territory was, especially from 1942 onward, severe and usually fatal. From 1942 onward, Jews were systematically searched out, grouped together, held in restricted zones, eventually transported to concentration camps, then either worked to death, abused and neglected into near-death states, or exterminated directly through various genocidal means.
What kind of games did kids during the Holocaust play in concentration camps?
Kids didn't play "outside of the camps". The camps were not in zones where kids would be and there was a no man's land around them. There were watch towers, men with guns, dogs, and barbed wire. Most were in remote areas and the Nazi were brutal.
Who was adolf Hitler and what role did he play during world war 2?
Adolf Hitler was the chancellor of Germany and dictator of the Nazi party. Hitler wanted the extinction of all Jews, who he believed to be the enemy of the German people. Under Hitler's dictatorship, approximately 6 million Jewish people were killed in concentration camps during World War 2.
What was life before concentration camps?
The Nazis starved them, beat them,did whatever they could to put them through hell. They also used them as targets, they would play a game called 'rabbit hunt' and stick a piece of paper on their back (on the left side) and make the Jews run and they would practice shooting at them. The Nazis looked down upon the Jews and treated them as though they were below human. They sent some of them to gas chambers and if one of them were too sick to work they would be sent to death camps to, you guessed it, die. They worked them very hard and fed them little food and water. this made many Jews die a premature death. Older people, sick people, handicaps, and really young children were hit hardest because they are not as able as the other prisoners.
If in a concentration camp if you could play music what would happen?
If you did you would be rich but most Jews were stripped of possetions including clothes before sent to the camps. Thank You for your question.
What role did Himmler play in the Nazi Party?
He oversaw the Gestapo and the concentration camps and was regarded as the architect of the Holocaust which resulted in the deaths of six million Jews and four million Poles.
Where were Jews and other communities sent to during World War 2?
Extermination camps. Which were "brilliantly" disguised by the name concentration camps. The Nazi official that came up with that "smart" mask name for it was really stupid, saying that for concentration camps, they would concentrate the populations inside them into well organized groups. Then the secret of the camps came into play: They murdered the "groups." Oh, and they weren't really groups. They were just new arrivals or random prisoners.
What games did children play inside concentration camps?
probably anything they could think of...
What type of music do Jews play on Hanukkah?
If music is played, it can be any type of music.
What was some type of music in the concentration camps?
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 ...
Why were the Jewish musicians not allowed to play music by beethoven?
They were not allowed to play that music because Betthoven was concidered German music and they didn't want Jews to play their culture
Jewish prisoners were not allowed to play music by these composers?
The Jewish musicians were not allowed to play music by Beethoven because he was a famed German composer and musician; "Jews were not allowed to play German music"
What would happen to you if you were caught hiding Jews during the Holocaust?
During World War II, the fate of Jews caught in Germany or occupied territory was, especially from 1942 onward, severe and usually fatal. From 1942 onward, Jews were systematically searched out, grouped together, held in restricted zones, eventually transported to concentration camps, then either worked to death, abused and neglected into near-death states, or exterminated directly through various genocidal means.
What kind of games did kids during the Holocaust play in concentration camps?
Kids didn't play "outside of the camps". The camps were not in zones where kids would be and there was a no man's land around them. There were watch towers, men with guns, dogs, and barbed wire. Most were in remote areas and the Nazi were brutal.
In the book Night why aren't the musicians allowed to play beethoven?
because beethoven was a German and they dont allow the jews to play german music
What is terezin ghetto?
Ghetto Terezin, or Therezinstadt, was a Jewish ghetto- a town or part of a town where a certain racial or religious group is concentrated- during WWII. The conditions were horrible. Six families had to live in a house made to contain one. Some people had to live on the streets. There wasn't enough food, and more Jews kept coming in. At the same time, Jews were always being deported to work camps, concentration camps, or death camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau or Bergen-Belsen. Therezinstadt was also used as a cover for what the Nazis were really doing to the Jews. The Red Cross came to visit, and found smiling people and a wonderful play (Brundebar) that the children put on. In reallity, the people had been threatened to smile and put on a show. Afterwards, the Red Cross mostly turned their backs while the Nazis went on torturing and killing Jews.
