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Typhus is a disease spread by lice and this is what most of the people died of other than starvation and fatigue

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What kind of diseases do Holocaust survivors suffer from?

That will be mostly cancer or diseases of the degenerative kind.


What are disease during Holocaust?

typhoidtyphusand other diseases


What was un common diseases for the holocaust?

Malaria was uncommon, if not unheard of.


What Infectious Diseases were there during the Holocaust?

In the concentration camps, Dysentery and Typhus were very common.


What percentage of children died in the holocaust due to a lack of food?

hard to calulate as many diseases occured because of malnutrition.


What diseases where common in the holocaust?

There are many, but a few are: Typhus - caused by bacteria and infection carrying fleas and lice Typhoid - caused by drinking contaminated water Beriberi - caused by a lack of thiamine(vitamin b1)


What were the conditions of the camps of the holocaust?

Poor the coniditon in the barracks where the prisoners slept was so poor people died from diseases. the SS officers had luxury rooms


When discussing the question of an American holocaust your text concludes that most of the terrible decimation of the Native American population after 1500 resulted from?

The usual answer is infectious diseases that Columbus and Co brought with them from Europe - diseases that had previously been unknown in the Americas and against with the Native Americans had therefore not built up immunity or even resistance.By the way, I wouldn't call that an American holocaust as was not deliberate killing.


Was there a disease in the holocaust called pulmonary disease?

Pulmonary disease is a general term for problems with the lungs. Pulmonary diseases have affected people in every historial period.


How was a ghetto formed in the Holocaust?

Holocaust ghettos were set up within cities by the Nazis in order to cut the Jews off from the outside world . They were fenced in settlements where Jews were forced to live in overcrowded homes. They had little to eat and suffered from many diseases due to filth and unclean water.


What name is given to the Nazi massacre of over 6 million Jews?

The Holocaust


What did Jews die of in Holocaust?

The Jewish victims were gassed or shot; others were worked to death on grossly insufficient food, and others died of typhus and other diseases that swept through the camps.