What were the conditions in Holocaust concentration camps?

Answer 1

Concentration camps were torturous and painful.

Inmates had to work and do hard labour, men arguably had to do more physically demanding jobs. People had to wear clothes resembling a pair of pajamas that had been worn before. People were beaten by guards and made to do seemingly illogical tasks. The camps were cold, wet, damp, and muddy. Jews were starved to death. There were outbreaks of harmful diseases such as Typhus. In the ghettos people often died at such a rate that the disposal of the corpses could not keep up, so; bodies were often piled up in streets.

Also they were put in gas chambers. they would be forced to take all their clothes off and go in to a big room this room was filled with up to two thousand Jews and a doctor would pour gas pellets into the room. Dead bodies would then be processed, gold teeth and hair would be harvested and the corpses searched. The corpses would then be burned in a special oven called a crematorium.

Answer 2

The conditions were very poor. The prisoners were often beaten, starved, worked to death, put into gas chambers, dehumanised and would be thrown into giant furnaces (crematories) while still alive.

Answer 3

Auschwitz was a death camp the condition were unbelievably bad, The attitude that the operators of this camp worked by was ruthlessly efficient who ever went in is supposed to be dead. But it takes time to dispose of bodies and process them for raw materials.so you feed the body's just enough to keep them alive and able to move in the right direction under their own steam until they are processed and disposed of at the oven end of the plant. I would say that this is totally inhuman however it was and still is only humans that treat each other and other creatures this way. even as I write this. About 70% of the new arrivals were gassed soon after reaching the camp. The others had to do slave labour on hopelessly insufficient food. Disease was often rampant. Prisoners were savely beaten; hungry dogs were let loose on them ... In short the conditions were utterly appalling.

Answer 4

The camps had no heat or running water and only a few toilets which the inmates could only use for a monitored 10 seconds. After retreating into the barracks, the prisoners lay 10 per bed and each person had to lay sideways to fit.

Answer 5

Horrendous - Auschwitz-Birkenau was where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews began at Auschwitz and it was conducted on an industrial scale with some estimates running as high as three million eventually killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting etc. 9 out of 10 were Jews.

They were really bad. You were starved to death. over 6 million Jews were killed in the consentration camps. A lot of these were children

Answer 6

It depended what camp you were in. The true conditions can only be related by someone who was interred in one of them. From what I have read the conditions were inhumane to the point of death. People were starved, beaten, raped, experimented on, and eventually put to death in cruel and evil ways. Ovens were always going, burning the dead. I can't begin to think that I have even an inkling of the Horror and evil that existed there. If you think I have painted a morbid picture, I have. There is no payment big enough for what was done!

Answer 7

The reasons for the epidemics and contagious diseases that prevailed in Auschwitz concentration camp included the dreadful living conditions, which varied during the years that the camp operated, and were different in each part of the camp. In Auschwitz I, prisoners lived in old brick barracks. Several hundred three-tier wooden bunk beds were installed in each building. The overcrowding in Auschwitz I forced basements and lofts into use as living quarters, as well.

Two types of barracks, brick and wooden, housed prisoners in Birkenau concentration camp. The brick buildings were erected in great haste, without suitable insulation, on marshy ground. More than 700 people were assigned to each barrack, although in practice the figure was sometimes higher. These barracks lacked any true heating; nor did they contain sanitary facilities.

The second type of accommodation for prisoners at Birkenau consisted of wooden stable-barracks (Pferdestallbaracken). The interiors, designed to hold 52 horses, were partitioned into stalls. The stalls contained three-tier wooden bunks. Several hundred prisoners lived in each such barrack.

Dampness, leaky roofs, and the fouling of straw and straw mattresses by prisoners suffering from diarrhea made difficult living conditions worse. The barracks swarmed with various sorts of vermin and rats. A constant shortage of water for washing, and the lack of suitable sanitary facilities, aggravated the situation.

Living and sanitary conditions in Auschwitz III (Monowitz) concentration camp and the several dozen branch camps resembled those described above.

Answer 8

the conditions were so bad because the Nazis did not care at all about the Jews . They thought who ever was in the camp was to be dead soon enough.