wat was life like for jews in the concentration camps? How did they suffer?

There are many history books that can give you a good background. Try looking at some accounts in Encyclopedias under Auschwitz, Concentration Camps, and Jewish in WWII.

As a child, I met many men who were in those camps and had lived, ones who were able bodied workers. They told me little, but the words will never be forgotten. They wore their prisoner number tatoo on their left arm, and when we asked as children, he told us. It was a time of oppression, his family was taken from their homes, and his sisters and Mother were sent somewhere else, and he didn’t know where. The German SS Soldiers treated them terribly, spitting on them, hitting them, barely feeding them enough to survive. All their possessions were stolen upon arrival at the camps, and they wore prisoner outfits. They were severely mistreated, tortured, and made to work or they faced the prospect of being gassed or shot. It was an awful time. After the war, some of them were able to get back with some of those lost family members, but 6,000,000 of them were executed by the Nazis.

The men we knew were very gentle men, who were wholesale clothing merchants, as were the majority of the wholesale clothing salespeople in the 50’s-70’s. They usually kept their heads down, but talked to you straight in the face so you knew their honesty. The war killed many of their relatives and friends, but here they were just doing a good job, an honest job. Once, there was a scheduling mistake and a clothing show just happened to fall on a Jewish holiday. Even though this was a large percentage of their income, being there, they put small signs on their displays and said they were going to prepare for their holiday, and our Christian family was invited by several of these dedicated Jewish believers.

Depending on your age, you might want to ask Mom and Dad if you can watch the movie miniseries “The Holocaust”. It came out in the 1970’s and gave us a real face to the stories we heard. If you are under 9, I think you should wait and read books for your level. It was a terrible war.

according to the accounts of some Holocaust survivors and a few Germans living near the concentration camps, more than 90% of the Jews taken there died two hours after they arrived in Auschwitz. The survivors were treated like ants, allocating a small room and something like a loaf for almost a hundred of them. In the near end, the Jewish survivors treated themselves as ants. There are many accounts of Holocaust survivors nicking food every now and then as a manifestation of their traumatic experiences in the concentration camps.

When the Jews and other non-Jewish prisoners arrived at Auschwitz it wasn’t Auschwitz at all. The “welcoming” camp was called Birkenau. So when the prisoners arrived at Birkenau they were sent to the selection platform where they were chosen for work or death. One of the most infamous doctors at Auschwitz, Dr. Josef Mengele, made most of the decisions of who went to work, who was to be sent to the gas chambers, or who was to be tested on. Auschwitz is the most well-known camp which had genetic experiments. Mengele personally worked on twins, where he would use one twin as a test subject and the other the control of the experiments. If you want to hear an amazing story from one the twins who survived check out her website. Her name is Eva Kor and the website is her C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Museum (Children Of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiment Survivors). I did my history day project on her, she is an amazing woman.

Aushwitz was one the the largest concentration camps. It was one of the major sites where jews were grouped, killed and worked to death.

The camp was divided into 3 sections

Auschwitz 1

Auschwitz 2

Auschwitz 3

–Auschwitz1 was where you were grouped and was the administration camp. This ws the labour area.

–Auschwitz2 was the extermination camp. When you arrived here you were divided into 4 groups.

-group 1 was to be killed right off the back

-group 2 were slave labours

-group 3 were twin and dwarfs who underwent “medical experiments”

-group 4 were woman who sorted through peoples belongings

—Auschwitz3 section of the camp was for work camp, with mills, and industries that were horrible for anyones health.

Facts….

-700 attemps to escape from the prison were made, but only 300 were successful

-the gas chambers were eventually blown up, the S.S wanted to hide any crimes that they would be charged for later on. Ofcourse that did not work anyway.

-death toll of 1.1 million jews in auschwitz

-there was a prison within a prison known as brick 11. It held prisoners who tried to stand up to officers. In this prison there were standing cells, and dark cells. Officers also hung prisoners from there wrists tied behind there backs, this would eventually pop both of there shoulders out. They would be left like that to eventually starve to death, if the pain had not killed them yet.

It was horrible beyond anything you can imagine. You should visit the Museum of Tolerance if you ever have the opportunity. You won’t get enough information on Yahoo Answers. Research the internet and the library. Find books by survivors of the Holocaust. Look for anything by Elie Wiesel. We must never forget how evil we humans can be to one another, so we can fight to prevent anything like that from happening in our own country.

Well they were treated horribly! They were hardly fed they were gassed, shot, and tortured. they couldnt c there families caus every1 was separated and this happened at all c.camps including auschwitz

some people have written books about it

I doubt words could even describe how terrible it was though.

the babies were used for gun targets =( because they were useless. the adults were branded, striped of clothing, starved, and worked to death. sometimes they would gas them. they did sick things to them (experiments and stuff)