Jewish Concentration Camps During Ww2

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In Concentration camps, The prisoners had to work for days and didn’t eat at days at a time. Also, the prisoners had to go “death marches” and moved from camp to camp in trains. The rides were days long and during them, the Soldiers through bread through the windows and watched the prisoners fight for bread because they were starving. People died during the rides and were thrown out on the side of the road. Some of the camps were worse than others and treated the prisoners differently. Concentration camps were terrible.

Before and During WWII, The Concentration camps had Jews and others worker as little slaves for the Nazis. All of the prisoners had to go through tough situations and had to switch in between camps on train rides for days at

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