How long did people stay at the Holocaust camps?

Answer 1

People sometimes were in concentration camps for a very short period, but usually because they were killed as soon as they arrived. Others were held in the camps for years, until the Allies rescued them or they eventually died from the horrific conditions they were forced to endure.

Answer 2

There were kept there indefinitely. In the early days (1933-34) some prisoners were released.

Indefinitely - until they died, were killed or if they were lucky when they were liberated.

Answer 3

In general prisoners were worked until exhaustion then taken to Auschwitz to be killed. Prisoners would not have stayed in Auschwitz for more than a year, up to 12,000 prisoners were killed per day in Auschwitz.

Answer 4

That would depend on which camp you are talking about. Concentration camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau, had people who survived these camps for years and who stayed in these camps for years. However, other camps, like Treblinka, which served as extermination camps, meant that people usually only stayed in these camps for a couple of hours before being killed.

Answer 5

It varied. Jews lived in concentration camps until April-May 1945, when the Allies liberated them. When they got to the camps varied from 1942 to 1944.

Answer 6

The average lifespan of an inmate was three months. This data did not include those who died on arrival.

Answer 7

Most less than aday