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As the war progressed and Germany invaded more countries, more prisoners were captured and moved from ghetto, to concentration camp, to concentration camp. Many concentration camps were overcrowding became a big issue. Many slept in beds designed for two with six to eight other people. Food became scarce and all went hungry. Diseases and sicknesses were prevalent and no prisoner had aid to help it. Dozens wold die every die, only to be replaced by another transport.
Within the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, there were two types of barracks: wooden and brick. One brick barrack, designed to hold one to two-hundred prisoners, held seven-hundred to one-thousand prisoners at a time. The brick barracks had no floor and a weak roof so prisoners slept on the muddy ground or the cold (winter), hot (summer), or wet top. The wooden barracks were first made as stables to hold cattle, but then made to hold several hundred new prisoners arriving at Birkenau.
"Dampness, leaky roofs, and the fouling of straw and straw mattresses made by prisoners riddled by diarrhea made difficult living conditions unbearable."
-Holocaust Survivor, unknown
The prisoners at Auschwitz were given three meals a day: dawn, noon, and dusk. All of the meals consisted of two things: one slice of bread and cabbage soup. As the food is just calories, many prisoners would run out of energy quickly. Some would steal food from one another or from their working station, or would simply exhaust themselves out. In Dachau, the experimentation concentration camp, prisoners were given one loaf of bread and watery soup, vegetable or cabbage, on the first day of the week. By doing this, many prisoners ate all or most of their food in the first few days, only to starve at the end of the week. Some would steal the food from the weaker.
At every concentration camp, a schedule was strictly followed. The average prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau worked for ten hours a day followed by the rest of the day taken up by long roll calls for the nearly 2.2 million prisoners, latrines, food lines, and disinfection
Executions were one means of physically liquidating prisoners and people brought from outside the camps. Killings consisted of gas chambers, guns, beatings, hangings, and surgical operations.
Within the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, there were two types of barracks: wooden and brick. One brick barrack, designed to hold one to two-hundred prisoners, held seven-hundred to one-thousand prisoners at a time. The brick barracks had no floor and a weak roof so prisoners slept on the muddy ground or the cold (winter), hot (summer), or wet top. The wooden barracks were first made as stables to hold cattle, but then made to hold several hundred new prisoners arriving at Birkenau.
"Dampness, leaky roofs, and the fouling of straw and straw mattresses made by prisoners riddled by diarrhea made difficult living conditions unbearable."
-Holocaust Survivor, unknown
The prisoners at Auschwitz were given three meals a day: dawn, noon, and dusk. All of the meals consisted of two things: one slice of bread and cabbage soup. As the food is just calories, many prisoners would run out of energy quickly. Some would steal food from one another or from their working station, or would simply exhaust themselves out. In Dachau, the experimentation concentration camp, prisoners were given one loaf of bread and watery soup, vegetable or cabbage, on the first day of the week. By doing this, many prisoners ate all or most of their food in the first few days, only to starve at the end of the week. Some would steal the food from the weaker.
At every concentration camp, a schedule was strictly followed. The average prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau worked for ten hours a day followed by the rest of the day taken up by long roll calls for the nearly 2.2 million prisoners, latrines, food lines, and disinfection
Executions were one means of physically liquidating prisoners and people brought from outside the camps. Killings consisted of gas chambers, guns, beatings, hangings, and surgical operations.