Holocaust Camps

Millions of people were killed. It is known as the greatest genocide in history, and it is the Holocaust. Concentration camps and extermination camps were brutal areas where Nazis killed whoever they wanted to, but primarily Jews. The prisoners would work as slaves; everyday they would do labor work, and receive close to nothing in return. There food and water was limited, as well as clothing and material for warmth. Many Jews would work to death. For the small portion of prisoners who survived the work, would suffer and die from other conditions. The main cause for death after extreme labor was starvation and disease. The prisoners were served rations of bread and soup, barely enough to survive on, and many people couldn’t make it. The last main reason for death would be a mixture between exhaustion and being beat. If the prisoners were tired, they would usually be killed for being too weak. They would get shot, be burned, be placed in gas chambers, or they would be killed by each other. Most prisoners who arrived at the gates of an extermination camp were killed within a few hours after walking through the gates. If the prisoner was kept to do labor at the camp, they would work as throwing alive humans into fires, or removing dead bodies from gas chambers. Throughout years of unbearable living conditions, mass murder became a daily routine, killing millions of prisoners.