Most of the deportations to death camps were by train.
The death camps kept the Jews from living!
There were told that they were being 'resettled' in Eastern Europe. According to those people in the extermination camps who sorted the possessions that Jews took with them there were a large number of cooking utensils, and also musical instruments. This suggests that some of the Jews deported to the camps at least thought they might be starting a new life in Eastern Europe.The Jews thought that they were being sent to work camps, and not to death camps.
Before the Jews were in the concentration camp, the Nazis built a wall around their neighborhood called a ghetto. After this, the Nazis deported Jews to the camps.
Usually by rail in sealed boxcars. Occasionally they might be marched there, but this needed large groups of armed guards as it offered too many chances of escape.
ghettos, concentration camps, and death camps
WW2.
Poland.
They were either murdered or escaped
The death camps kept the Jews from living!
They were in both..
There were told that they were being 'resettled' in Eastern Europe. According to those people in the extermination camps who sorted the possessions that Jews took with them there were a large number of cooking utensils, and also musical instruments. This suggests that some of the Jews deported to the camps at least thought they might be starting a new life in Eastern Europe.The Jews thought that they were being sent to work camps, and not to death camps.
Before the Jews were in the concentration camp, the Nazis built a wall around their neighborhood called a ghetto. After this, the Nazis deported Jews to the camps.
Jews were sent there by Train.
They were deported to the extermination camps. People came from the ghettos, or later they came from thier homes.
The Jews of Sighet believed they were being deported to work in labor camps due to the Nazi deception about the true nature of the deportations. They were misled and unaware of the atrocities awaiting them in concentration and extermination camps.
Trains!
Usually by rail in sealed boxcars. Occasionally they might be marched there, but this needed large groups of armed guards as it offered too many chances of escape.