What are some people that died in concentration camps during the Holocaust?

Answer 1

There was a distinction in Nazi Germany beyween extermantion camps and concentration camps. Concentration camps held Jews, political prisoners, criminals, homosexuals, gypsies and the mentally ill who were forced to undertake labour. Many of these prisoners died due to poor treatment, from disease, starvation and overwork, or were executed as unfit for labour.

The extermination camps were created to allow murder to occur on an industrial scale. The vast majority of these victims were Jews but also included the handicapped, and those with criminal records.

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Answer 2

Concentration camps, originally designed to hold political prisoners, eventually were used to hold Jews, Soviet prisoners, Gypsies, Poles, left of center political prisoners, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses, common criminals, etc. Many people in all of these groups were either killed or worked to death, but probably the Jews and the Soviets suffered the greatest number of casualties.

Answer 3

Millions of people. Not just Jews but also many homosexuals and physically and mentally crippled people.

Answer 4

Erich Mühsam was killed in Oranienburg Concentration Camp in 1933. He epitomized everything the Nazis loathed: he was a Jew, a gay rights campaigner and a socialist.

Answer 5

of the eight in the secret annexe, it was Hermann Van Pels who died first, by being gassed.

Answer 6

Most people really did not have a hope of not dying because you often got transferred to Auschwitz and other camps where you soon died.

Answer 7

Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, anti-political, sick, old.

Answer 8

yes, but only a small amount commpared to those killed in the field or in the death camps.

Answer 9

Thousands upon thousands of people.