Survival In Labor Camps

The most important factor in a person's survival in labor camps was where they worked and how much of. This is because the more you worked the better chance you had of surviving due to the amount of food you would get. The type of work you did was decided by what type of sentence the prisoners had been given, and in part by the camp administration. There was an unlimited amount of jobs in the labor camps. This is because the jobs given were basically anything that needed fixing in the camps or needed to be made. Some jobs would almost certainly point to death while others permitted prisoners to slide by with entrance to the basic of facilities. The most toughest were usually outside jobs that revealed the prisoners to brutal weather. Cutting …show more content…
The work in the camps was so terrifying that prisoners would go to unbelievable measures in order to avoid it. There was one account of a prisoner remembering a man who There was another account where a prisoner saw a man place his arm in the wood stove, a system that was allegedly conducted out daily, in order to avoid working. Inside the camp, there were special individuals called who were given sufficient jobs and had the power to control the lives of others. These were the people who operated in the They had the power to control who got rest, who ate, and who would do the deadly jobs that indicated almost definite death. Often the would receive their jobs through bribes or other contacts with the prison guards, one being sexual favors. The production at each camp was managed by something called the This is how they kept track of how much food you would get. The process of all of this was very organized and moved smoothly. Daily routine in camps generally changed depending on the camp. The prisoner was normally woken up extremely early and were given only a small amount of time to prepare themselves for the day