The Importance Of Life In The Holocaust

The alarm on the bedside table starts to make loud noises. One might turn it off, proceed to get out of bed and start their daily routine. This includes brushing their teeth, washing their face and eating mom’s pancakes before getting on the bus to go to school. One might live out their life just like any normal day, but they do not realize that this is what some of the Jews experienced before the Holocaust. The daily lives for Jews in the Holocaust were something far from normal. Men, women and children from all ages and backgrounds were taken from their homes. They were forced to experience inhumane activities that made them feel like they were less than a human being. The daily life in the concentration camps was designed to make the Jews …show more content…
Most adults live off of a job that they have and receive money for the work that they do. They use the money from this job to support themselves and sometimes even their family. These adults are able to apply for jobs that involve work that they are interested in, and will work daily to make a living. In concentration camps, the Jews are not able to choose anything for themselves. After the Jews are booked into the camp they find out what jobs they will be doing, which are chosen by the Nazis in the camps. The Jews will be forced to do these jobs until they are instructed to do something different. There were many different jobs that were done at the camps. However, the types of jobs were different at each concentration camp. A lot of the work at the concentration camps involved manual labor that led to the pain and exhaustion of many Jews. Some Jews had to do things like moving around heavy objects such as stones and sandbags, while others would have to dig all day to build trenches. Prisoners were sometimes required to do jobs that were outside of the concentration camps. These jobs include working on coal mines, rock quarries and on other construction projects like digging tunnels. Under armed