Living Conditions Of Auschwitz-1940
Lee, Dylan
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11/29/17
Auschwitz - 1940
Auschwitz was not a concentration camp, it was a kill camp. They used these camps to kill nuisances, and people they did not like. Inside of this camp, they killed people in many ways. There were many different types of prisoners. And the prisoners thought the living conditions were worse than death. The Holocaust was a horrible time, and in a concentration camp like Auschwitz, it made it even worse.
The punishments in this camp varied. The most common punishment was to take away the prisoner's food. A more serious punishment could be to be beaten by a whip or a stick until numb. Another punishment was to be put into Block 11. Block 11 was a cell that had nothing in it and was pitch black. They would not feed you until you were starving, and they fed you little. An Auschwitz survivor Ganz, said in a USA Today interview "Once they found you, if they pointed left, you went to the gas …show more content…
In the first few months that Auschwitz was a death camp, it did not have furniture or beds in the cells. Food was given scarcely, and water could only be found in 2 small wells. There were less than 30 toilets, and the prisoners were rarely allowed to use them. Auschwitz.org states that "In the first few months of the BI period, water was available only in the barracks, and prisoners could not use it." That means that the prisoners could stay hydrated, or be able to clean themselves, meaning that they would always be dirty. The prisoners only received about three meals every day. The first meal consisted of soup, and their last meal about three hundred grams of bread. When the Nazis saw that the prisoners didn't work well or worked insufficiently, they would exterminate them, although the reason they were "Not working well" was because they weren't fed enough. So, Nazis lead the prisoners to their own
p.1
11/29/17
Auschwitz - 1940
Auschwitz was not a concentration camp, it was a kill camp. They used these camps to kill nuisances, and people they did not like. Inside of this camp, they killed people in many ways. There were many different types of prisoners. And the prisoners thought the living conditions were worse than death. The Holocaust was a horrible time, and in a concentration camp like Auschwitz, it made it even worse.
The punishments in this camp varied. The most common punishment was to take away the prisoner's food. A more serious punishment could be to be beaten by a whip or a stick until numb. Another punishment was to be put into Block 11. Block 11 was a cell that had nothing in it and was pitch black. They would not feed you until you were starving, and they fed you little. An Auschwitz survivor Ganz, said in a USA Today interview "Once they found you, if they pointed left, you went to the gas …show more content…
In the first few months that Auschwitz was a death camp, it did not have furniture or beds in the cells. Food was given scarcely, and water could only be found in 2 small wells. There were less than 30 toilets, and the prisoners were rarely allowed to use them. Auschwitz.org states that "In the first few months of the BI period, water was available only in the barracks, and prisoners could not use it." That means that the prisoners could stay hydrated, or be able to clean themselves, meaning that they would always be dirty. The prisoners only received about three meals every day. The first meal consisted of soup, and their last meal about three hundred grams of bread. When the Nazis saw that the prisoners didn't work well or worked insufficiently, they would exterminate them, although the reason they were "Not working well" was because they weren't fed enough. So, Nazis lead the prisoners to their own