Living Conditions In Prison Camps

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The jews daily life in the camps were horrific. The reason being is because their living conditions were harsh and deadly .(Safdie 1)The jews were subjected to unimaginable terrors, from the first day they arrived to the last. In the mornings for breakfast , they were only given 10 ounces of bread and “coffee”. Yet that coffee wasn’t really coffee, it was more water than coffee. The jews would sleep in two types of barracks, brick and wood. They would only receive three meals all day, Morning, Noon, and Evening. Prisoners spent 12-14 hours per day working! Moving sandbags, extract and carry heavy stones, dig trenches, or bore tunnels. Half the things these “prisoners” went through is nothing to what today’s prisoners are sentenced to. The

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