Daily Life in concentration camps was terrifying and draining emotionally and physically to the prisoners. The prisoners were always fearful of unnecessary beating and lashes from whips. The Nazi’s changed every person so that they could no longer feel or have emotions. The Nazi’s forced the prisoners to do unnecessary work in terrible conditions. Daily life in the Concentration Camps can be described as absolutely terrifying. The able-bodied prisoners worked in the slave labor complex. To start of the day the inmates were woken by the Kapo barking at them. “From the shapeless straw mattress they would then have to make a perfect bed in a military manner.” (http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/DayEng.html) “There was usually five
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The flogging was administered on a special table officially known as the “Grand Piano”. “The “Grand Piano” was made of thick boards, and was semicircular”. (http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/Majdanek%20Daily%20life/majdanekdailylife.html) The prisoner to be whipped, put his feet behind a special board at the rear of the table and they lay down on their stomachs. The SS men or Kapoo's then held their arms twisted back in between their shoulder blades.”They were then wiped with sticks 10-200 or more strokes were received” (http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/Majdanek%20Daily%20life/majdanekdailylife.html) . Prisoners days were filled from morning until the evening roll call, with a maximum amount of activity, they were in constant haste, always fearful of beatings and …show more content…
On a typical day at Treblinka a train would arrive with about 100 Jews packed closely in each car.” (People of the Holocaust) Many prisoners committed suicide the second they got a chance to. “The most popular way was touching an electrically charged barbed-wire fence” (People of the Holocaust) “The Nazis recruited about 100 soviet army soldiers from prisoner of war to help guard Treblinka.”(People of the Holocaust) At this camp there wasn’t many sanitary facilities and sometimes there were only a few for hundreds of prisoners. “Typhas, a disease carried by fleas and was spread in crowded, unsanitary conditions was spread throughout the camp” (People of the Holocaust) Many of the inmates started getting frostbite from working in the cold. Even in pain they would have to keep working to avoid getting beat up. The food rations that were given caused the skin to turn a grey or blue color. Their skin also began to become thinner, then it hardened, and peeled off. Hair became brittle and the cheekbones and eye sockets started to become more prominent. In the last phase of starvation, prisoners no longer would feel hungry. (People of the Holocaust) “More than 700 people were assigned to a barrack.’’ (People of the Holocaust) If there was no additional tasks a prisoner could spend extra time talking with friends from other barracks. “Sometimes the prisoners would put together entertainment made up of singing, joking, and poetry.”
The flogging was administered on a special table officially known as the “Grand Piano”. “The “Grand Piano” was made of thick boards, and was semicircular”. (http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/Majdanek%20Daily%20life/majdanekdailylife.html) The prisoner to be whipped, put his feet behind a special board at the rear of the table and they lay down on their stomachs. The SS men or Kapoo's then held their arms twisted back in between their shoulder blades.”They were then wiped with sticks 10-200 or more strokes were received” (http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/Majdanek%20Daily%20life/majdanekdailylife.html) . Prisoners days were filled from morning until the evening roll call, with a maximum amount of activity, they were in constant haste, always fearful of beatings and …show more content…
On a typical day at Treblinka a train would arrive with about 100 Jews packed closely in each car.” (People of the Holocaust) Many prisoners committed suicide the second they got a chance to. “The most popular way was touching an electrically charged barbed-wire fence” (People of the Holocaust) “The Nazis recruited about 100 soviet army soldiers from prisoner of war to help guard Treblinka.”(People of the Holocaust) At this camp there wasn’t many sanitary facilities and sometimes there were only a few for hundreds of prisoners. “Typhas, a disease carried by fleas and was spread in crowded, unsanitary conditions was spread throughout the camp” (People of the Holocaust) Many of the inmates started getting frostbite from working in the cold. Even in pain they would have to keep working to avoid getting beat up. The food rations that were given caused the skin to turn a grey or blue color. Their skin also began to become thinner, then it hardened, and peeled off. Hair became brittle and the cheekbones and eye sockets started to become more prominent. In the last phase of starvation, prisoners no longer would feel hungry. (People of the Holocaust) “More than 700 people were assigned to a barrack.’’ (People of the Holocaust) If there was no additional tasks a prisoner could spend extra time talking with friends from other barracks. “Sometimes the prisoners would put together entertainment made up of singing, joking, and poetry.”