What did they do at Auschwitz?

Answer 1

The Nazis either worked them to death as slave labor. Some Jews died from starvation, disease, and torture. Most of the Jews at Auschwitz were gassed soon after arrival. About 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz. It is the best-known killing center because of it was the largest, with the greatest number of facilities, survivors, and surviving paperwork.

Answer 2

That depends on the type of death camp you speak of. There were 3 kinds:

Aktion Reinhardt Extermination Camps - Prisoners were promptly killed upon arrival through the use of gas chambers or crematories (incinerators). There were 3 of these camps; Belzec, Treblinka, and Sobibór.

Concentration/Extermination Camps - Some prisoners would be selected for work instead of being killed immediately. Used as a sort of slave for whatever the Nazis needed done. Fitted with gas chambers and crematories. There were 3 of these camps as well, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdenek, and Jasenovak.

Minor Extermination Camps - Originally operated as transit camps or prisons at the start of the war. As Hitler became more dedicated to the purging of the Jews, he transformed these establishments into death camps. None of the 4 camps (Sajmiste, Maly Trostenets, Janowska, and Gornija Rijeka) had crematories or gas chambers; instead they were given gas vans that killed using the exhaust from the vehicle.

For the Jews that survived selection for death and were 'fortunate' enough to work, the Nazis would inflict the Extermination Through Labor (Vernichtung durch Arbeit) rule, which would make sure that Jews would inevitably end up dying from the back breaking work. Some of these cruel duties included:

Todesstiege - English: Stairs of Death. Jews would be forced to carry heavy rocks up and down a flight of stairs until the Nazis ended the drill or they collapsed from exhaustion. When the latter occurred, they were usually shot on site.

Sonderkommando Duty - Perhaps the most unpleasant and cruel of all duties, Jews would be forced to burn their dead comrades in the crematories. Some Sonderkommando survivors reported burning their own families at some point.

May we never forget the attrocities of the Nazi regime quickly.

Answer 3

Some camps were exclusively death camps where after stripping the jews, shaving their hair, and extracting their gold teeth the Nazis gassed the jews with Zyklon B - suffocating them to death - and then cremated their bodies in massive fires or in crematoria's (ovens made to fit human bodies). other camps, were both labor and death camps or only labor camps, but even here life was not good. The Nazis shaved the jews heads, extracted their gold teeth, took all their belongings and forced them to sleep and work in inhuman conditions. additionally, they were given hardly any food and water (only a small morsel of bread and half a bowl of watery soup a day) they were forced to work in every weather conditions with nothing but thin clothing on and wooden shoes. The Nazis performed ghastly experiments on the jews - particularly twins, the sick, and those unfit to work. In the camps, there were constant selections administered by SS personal - most notoriously Dr. Mengele, Jews who did not pass the health inspection were sent to the gas chambers or shot over mass graves. Any departure from normal protocol resulted in death. This short answer cannot encompass the brutality the Nazis inflicted on the Jews. For more information you should Google some specific camps likes Aushwitz, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, Plascow, Chelmno, or Thereseinstadt.

Answer 4

Many were worked to death as slave laborers, but even more were murdered as soon as practical after arrival.

Answer 5

it was a death camp ran by nazis to kill jews

Answer 6

Most were gassed as soon as practical after arrival. The others had to work as slave labourers.

Answer 7

Prisoners in Auschwitz just worked, eat, sleep and did. there was no time for entertainment.

Answer 8

they worked until the died or hitler killed them while working.

Answer 9

Nazis killed Jews in the Holocaust.