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Hair is a valuable commodity, used in making wigs. Victims of the Holocaust were mined for resources, such as valuable tooth fillings, hair, or anything else that could be used. Sometimes human skin was used as a source of leather.

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Did Stalin use gas chambers before Nazi Germany?

Germany was using gas chambers during world war 1 and so were the soviets almost everyone used gas chambers for their enemies even though they never told anyone about it ____ It looks as if someone is confusing poison gas on the battlefield with gas chambers.


What happened to the Jews that got to Auschwitz?

They all get separated from their families men go into part 1 or 2 and women in the other and the ones that are not fit for work go straight to the gas chambers or crematoria and all children who stepped off that train was also be sent to the gas chambers or crematoria. It's all so sad.


Where did the gas for the gas chambers in buchenwald come from?

Buchenwald did not have gas chambers


What method and how did Hitler apply to kill Jews?

Hitler would put the jewish inside a concentration camp were there head would be shaved bald to show shame and then gassed in chambers


Did survivors of the holocaust ever develop cancer or any other effects as a result of gas chambers?

Depends on their health, if before they were sent to the gas chambers,they were healthy or not, if they was already ill and they survived the gas chambers, they could develope some sort of cancer or blindness or had other health problems but if your already healthy and strong, you could cope being in a room with toxic gases then you could survive such as if you was a military or a strong swimmer, athletic swimmers can hold their breath under water for atleast 10 minutes and thats goes for some with gas chambers, hold your breath before gas gets near you____The gas in the gas chambers killed. There were nosurvivors from gas chambers ... A tiny number of people were occasionally not dead at the end of the gassing session and they were given a lethal injection.

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Did Stalin use gas chambers before Nazi Germany?

Germany was using gas chambers during world war 1 and so were the soviets almost everyone used gas chambers for their enemies even though they never told anyone about it ____ It looks as if someone is confusing poison gas on the battlefield with gas chambers.


What happened to people once in a concentration camp?

This depends which camp.At Auschwitz, men and women were separated, all hair was shaved, and they would either go to work or the gas chambers.


What happened to the Jews that got to Auschwitz?

They all get separated from their families men go into part 1 or 2 and women in the other and the ones that are not fit for work go straight to the gas chambers or crematoria and all children who stepped off that train was also be sent to the gas chambers or crematoria. It's all so sad.


Where did the gas for the gas chambers in buchenwald come from?

Buchenwald did not have gas chambers


Were the ghettos just a waiting room before the gas chambers?

Pretty much.


What killed the Jews the most gas chambers or fire?

The gas chambers.


Description of the gas chambers?

Please see the link below for information on the gas chambers at Auschwitz. (Other camps also had gas chambers).


What did the Nazis use before gas chambers?

gas vans, they were the main gas extermination method until the spring of 1943, which was when the large gas chambers started ______ In the early stages of the Holocaust (1941-42) the Nazis relied mainly on mass open air shootings.


What method and how did Hitler apply to kill Jews?

Hitler would put the jewish inside a concentration camp were there head would be shaved bald to show shame and then gassed in chambers


Did survivors of the holocaust ever develop cancer or any other effects as a result of gas chambers?

Depends on their health, if before they were sent to the gas chambers,they were healthy or not, if they was already ill and they survived the gas chambers, they could develope some sort of cancer or blindness or had other health problems but if your already healthy and strong, you could cope being in a room with toxic gases then you could survive such as if you was a military or a strong swimmer, athletic swimmers can hold their breath under water for atleast 10 minutes and thats goes for some with gas chambers, hold your breath before gas gets near you____The gas in the gas chambers killed. There were nosurvivors from gas chambers ... A tiny number of people were occasionally not dead at the end of the gassing session and they were given a lethal injection.


Are gas chambers and poison gas the same?

Yes it is, u can go to wikipedia and type Gas Chambers to find out


Did all concentration camps have gas chambers?

Yes there where.. Bur they were never used. In 1945 berlin ordered theresienstadt to exterminate all Jews before the red army libaretes the camp. So Theresianstadt build the chambers.. Fortunatly The red army libareted the camp before the chambers where active..