Thursday, March 26, 2009

A Typical Day in a Concentration Camp

Based on your findings, describe a day in the life of a person in a concentration camp. Include details that reveal housing conditions, labor, punishments and other information you have uncovered.

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  1. You would have to get up 3:00 a.m every single day. Besides making the bed there punishments was 25 lashes which were very hard to do and was almost impoosible. At around 12:00 p.m they had half a liter of soup and had some watery thing withhout any taste to it.
    They wasn't allowed to have sppons they had to eat with there hands or eat like a dog. Which was very sad and shameful.

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  2. A Typical Days in a Concentration Camp was very unpleasant. It consisted of death hunger and torture. The Nazis would make people dig a hole and shooting them into the hole, which turns out to be them digging their own graves. People had no rights and followed rules. If you did not follow the rules you were killed tortured or got a number of lashes due to severness of the "crime".

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  3. Prisonersn in Concentration camps had to wake up every morning at 3:00 oclock. During the day they had to clean bathrooms and dig graves for all the dead.
    Prisoners mostly died of disease and starvation. Many prisoners have tried to escape but they were eathier killed by the electric fence, or shot by the guards.

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  4. The day of the lfe of a person in a concentration camp is you get up at 3:00 a.m every single day besides making the "beds" there everyday. The punishment for not making your "beds" perfect is 25 lashes which were very hard and almost impossible. Around 12:00 p.m you ate some watery soup without taste. You were not allowed to have spoons. Most people used their hands or eat like dogs. At 6:00 p.m you stop working. You get a headcount which takes anywheres from 1 hour to 2 hours. Then you go to bed.

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  5. The person life is hard in the concentraion camp because no matter how hard they tried they still got beat.their life was that they had to sleep on beds and sleep shoulder to shoulder.their food was soup with water in it and vegetable and small beard.when they dont clean they get 25 lashes and when they die they get put in mass graves.

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  6. A typical day in a concentration starts at 3am by making their beds and sweeping the floor... PERFECT! 25 lashes for those who dont follow the rules accordingly. Next is role call to check for escapees. The prisoners ate half a bowl of soup that had the occasional piece of meat. Most of their day was made up of things like cleaning and fixing the barracks and the rest rooms (holes in the ground).at the end of the day they went to bead, just to wake up to another day of torment.

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  7. I agree with What Sophia because she has some good details. She also has some facts that I have too.

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  8. I agreee with what everyone said becasue it is true they would get have to dig there own grave then they would shoot them and they would fall right in there grave

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  9. A day in a concentration camp wasa hard for so many of them.The people had to wake up in 3:00 in the morning.The people had to work on a daily bases.They had to clean and sweep.If the cleaning was not perfect, the people would get 25 lashes.This is called being whipped 25 times.

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  10. i thought what sam carfora said was really interesting because everything is true, and the way he emphasized words made it interesting to read!

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  11. I agree with James because he had good details and it made sence becasue people in a concentration camp did have to suffer and they were tortured and I feel that the way people was treated back then was a shame.

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  12. A typical day in a concentrtionn camp was horrible becuase getting up at 3am was bad cause most of the time they did not get to bed til midnight. The work they did during the day was digging graves and that took a lot of engery for them. The prisoners only got one meal and it was a half a bowl of soup. Then they went back to digging some more graves, and at 6pm the guards would have to do headcount that could take and hour or two.

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  13. wow, i never wouldnt be able to survive less than a day in a camp.I complain alot when i have to wake up at 6:30, and they had to wake up at 3!And it must be horrible to have to dig your own grave.

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  14. wow Lauren M that is horrible that they would have to wake up at 3am in the morning! And I can't beleive they made them dig up graves to put people they might have known in. That to me is extremely brutal. And then they would have to stand straight up for 2 hours to 3 for just a simple headcount. Everything that i have just found out has shocked me but im glad i can find information about stuff like this.

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  15. A Typical day in a concentration camp was really horible. They had to wake up at 3a.m so they could do a head count. In the morning all they got was this meal that had liquid and was brownish, and is the noon time allthe got was soup and they maght have got a piece of bread that is all they got during the day. They had to dig graves and than come to find out they were actually digging thier own. Families got seperated, the boys went with the men while the girls went with the women. Hitler forced up to five families in a getto and they had like no room at all. They had to report to their cabins around 10p.m to 11p.m and maybe later than that because they are waiting for role count to get done.

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  16. Very good descxribtion i never knew how much they had to go through that much but what are lashes and so they had to wake up that early and go through that much i feel sad for the people who had to endure that punishment.

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  17. Do you complain in the morning about what time you get up. Maybe you get up at 6:00 am or even later well just image getting up at 4:00 am and you did not go to bed till 11:00 pm or later. Well thats what the jews had to go through every day at the concentration camps. The jews worked constantly they would work 14 to 18 hours a day. They bearly ate anything, all they would get was some bronwish liquid with turips and may be an old,mody peice of bread. Hitler gave the jerws just enough to bear4ly survive. And the worst part wsa that they could not see thier kids. Thry were separtedfrom each other,boys went with men and the girls went with the women if they were not killed first. They would kill the women and childern almost ammitedly when they got there. So like i said in the being think about what the jwes had to go thourgh before you start complaining about what you are about to eat,or what time you get up, and how much your sibblies or mom and dad get on your nerves.

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  18. wow, that sounds really devistating! i dont think that i could last a single day there, i would make a run for it. i knew that their life was hard but that is just plain cruelty! like Sam c said, everything had to be perfect. yikes.

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  19. I agree with hannah h because, I do complain at 6:30 when I get up every day. They had to get up at 3am, work to the bone and dig their own grave! I wouldn't survive 2 hours in a concentration camp

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  20. wow i knew they got up at 3:00 am everyday but i didnt no they got 25 lashes on the everyday bases. And to did there on grave just so they can be shotand fall in when they get done is a shame. Thinks for the information eveyone.

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  21. since we have reading the four peebles and after doing our resaerch i feel very disturb and sadden about how the treated jews at concentration camp. from my research ilearn that jews were treated horrilbl wrong by there living habits the had to eat a small cup of soup nd a piece of black bread and i think thts not enough to keep0 the human body running. i also think its not fair to have them suffer for other people dying or not showing up for roll call i also think its nbot fair for them to wake up a 4am to get workin g i think was wrong to torture to jews for his own enjoyment.

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  22. The holocaust life was very difficult for Jews.They were to wake up 4a.m. and make their beds perfectly military stlye which was found to be imposible so this gave the Kapo a good chance to beat the prisoners. Food wasn't all that good compared to what the prisoners ate at the camp our cafeteria food would look like a fancy meal.They were to eat stew with NO meats,rotten vegetables,or watery soup;and if it was necessary they'd eat grass.

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  23. In my opinion it was very hard to live ONE day in a concentration camp. The camps were nasty, unsanitary and should'nt have been lived in. You had to rise at 4 am everyday and some nights you did'nt even get to sleep. Rotten food was eaten in the same bowls used to go to the bathroom. Also people had to share one bunk bed with at least five people. The key words being AT LEAST. There was no heat nor electricity therefore many people were exposed to frostbite. Some even froze to death. Lastly mny people died everyday from starvation, a disease called typhus, mistreatment, and beatings. In conclusion, concentration camps were not easy to live in.

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  24. I didn't know that prisoners would dig a grave then be shotdown. Basically they dug there own death. That very disturbing how somebody could do something like that.

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  25. A typical day at a concerntation camp is like toture. First it's the mornig roll call or Appel at 4 am. In certain camps, like Aushwitz there is only one narrow bunkbed that could fit one person. Jews and other small groups was forced into ghettos,which are small living areas' that only fitted one family in a house,. Hittler had forced up to five families into the ghetto. The prisoners' were fed just enough so that they would still be alive and strong enough to work, however not enough that the prisoners' can fight back. They were fed just a piece of bread a day. They were intentionally starved.

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  26. i now i feel you maxin ei just dont get how noboby caught on to Hitlers unusaul punishments.i could understand if you hate jews , but killing them isn't solving any problems it's just blowing off hatred.

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  27. I really have to agree with my girl sophia because what everyone was saying about the Jews was good and how Hitler treated them was terrible. Also how the Jews got up so early at 4a.m and when it was time for bed they had to to work out i didnt think that was fair at all. So to me we have it easy becasue for one we can get up and use the bathroom and not have to use a bowl,we can get up when we want to but only if we are in school and we have are mom or dad wakeing us up. So i really really admire the Jews how they just fought throw there rough times even if they had to die. And i leave today saying you should never treat people diffrent because they are diffrent from you just might be sorry for doing so and remember NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER!!!!!p.s that goes for you Hitler!!!

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  28. Have you ever complained about how "bad" you were punished? Maybe you lied to your parents or maybe you told your mom or dad to shut up because they were geting on your nerves.Maybe it just slipped out. Maybe it didn't got. the jews got it worse than we have it today.See back than every time a jew break a rule while they were in a concentration camp their verdict was unbelieveabley harsh the prisoners suffered severely punishment which includes starvation, beatings,death sentence, and/or execution. So next time when you get in trouble just take the punishment and thing about what happened to the Jews when they break a rule.

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  29. Tomeshia StevensonApril 3, 2009 at 6:27 AM

    i would have to agree with Maxine becasue the camps there was really nasty and i dont even think that a dog would even want be there. Also i would think that if they wanted someone to live there they would have but lights and heat in there and even put on roof on. Last at lease they could of gave them beds or there own!!!! So Maxine i really like what you said about them.

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  30. a typical day in the camp where bad. When they ate there soup it had hair, buttons, and even dead mice in the soup.

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  31. I agree with Quiana becase Hitler didn't give then enough food so that they were full. And all he wanted to do is to work them so that he could be happy and nobody else could feel happy.

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  32. Wow! I probably couldn't stand a day in a concentration camp because they have to get up at 3:00 in the morning I can barely even get up at 5:30 in the morning. All they are doing all day is working, and working and working and they only get at least one break at noon time. All they get to eat is bread and soup and the soup is brown and the bread is moldy and black, not very appatizing is it? At night they are all crammed up together in one room on very uncomfortable beds. So a day in a concentration camp is pretty miserable and hard. I wouldn't be able to handle it.

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  33. I agree with Lavina their food was revaulting in so many ways their soulp was brown the bread was black its a wonder how they could eat food like that. The conditions they were in were bad as well they didnt have much room to them selves they had to share beds and use there cups as a restroom if the had to go. They didnt have anything to eat out of except that.

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  34. A typical day in concentration camp was awful. The conditions of the houses were disturbing and people slept really tightly together. How would you feel about that. Also, food was so disgusting, people wanted to throw up but there was no bathrooms for anybody.

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  35. I agree with Tom B. and Lavina because yes their food was very horrible and un-appatizing because in their soup there were hair and sometimes even dead mice and insects in their soup and they have to eat or drink it everyday. Although they have no chose but to because that's the only type of food they get to eat each and everyday and the soups always brown.

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  36. In the Concentration Camp people were treated very poorly alot of the people died from starvation, and malnutrition and of course exhaustion. In the Concentration camps the people also had horrible housing and space was very tight living in a Concentration camp had to have been awful.

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  37. A typical day in a concentration camp was horrendous. The inmates were awaken at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning by the barking Kapos(the guards). The priosners had to stand at role call for hours at a time, than the jewish people would eat moldy bread with bitter coffee or tea. Futhermore the inmtates would work for about 10 to 14 hours a day in mines, factories, and road or air field buildings. If you think 8 hours in school is bad compared to the priosners it is nothing. When the inmates had to go to the restroom they would have to take turns in groups to go. They had no pirvacy what so ever they would just drop their pants had do their business. Hopefully this type of thing never happens again.
    -Jordan KIger

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  38. I agree with hannah E. shes right even if we dont wantr to admit it we would all complaine. and the thought of diging your own grave sounds like your ready to die any minute. If i new some one in my family was digging there own grave and about to die any minute i would b so depressed.

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  39. Can you imagine, Paige, sleeping so close to a stranger? I wonder if they developed families in the concentration camps. Considering that many of these people were strangers initially, I wonder if they become "family". The jews probably looked out for each other.

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  40. Jordan, I appreciate your connection. To be honest, since we've studying this unit, I find myself complaining less about my own circumstances. I have it really easy compared to this group of people.

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  41. I agree with Paige... The food at the camps were terrible. Also i cant believe how many people died from all those different things.

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  42. I didnt have this topic but I was very interseted in this topic. I was wondering when why got up and what did they do all day in camp? Did they just sit around starving and missing their family thats sitting at home worring about their loved one. Its even worse that Hitler send children to camp. CHILDREN! Growing children and learing children, they must of learned to be frightened of everyone that is German. They must of not grown up a healthy life. Alot of kids must of had stomach problems if they survived the camp. They all looked so anorexic even though it wasnt their fault. They were only given horrible food to eat. There must of been people fighting to get food and thats a horrible thing for people to fight for. People might of died from fighting with each other for food.

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  43. A typical day at a Concentration Camp
    In a concentration camp they get up at 3 am. The housing conditions were horrible and they had to fix their houses almost every day. The prisoners get black bitter coffee for breakfast and after that they had the 6 am headcount. They had bathrooms that were horrific and dirty. The labor they did was build railroads, roads, carry stones or coal in the quarry, take out manure, potato digging, latrine-cleaning, barracks or sewer repair. The prisoners were killed by poisonous gasses and were burned. Prisoners did not escape and if they tried they would either be killed or tortured more intensely then usual. Families stayed together sometimes but most of the time they were separated. The prisoners were not allowed to interact with each other and if they did they would be punished severely because the Germans thought they would plan a breakout if they could interact. The prisoners went back to sleep at different times but the time was between 9 pm to 12 am and they had to get back up at 3 am. I think the most unbearable part of a concentration camp would be the hard labor they force you to do and I would try to either end it by escaping or killing myself.

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  44. In the concentration camps the healthy began working at dawn. They weren’t allowed to go to the bathroom when they needed to they had to wait till it was there time. They weren’t served a very big breakfast, they had some moldy bread and small portions of coffee or tea. They started to work there horrible hard labor jobs after breakfast. They did jobs like work in mines, factories and road or airfield buildings. This wasn’t heaven, and they weren’t safe. Many people died. They died from things like starvation, disease, being shot, the gas chamber, and many other horrible deaths. The dead got everything on there bodies taken away when they died. Once the Jews were in the concentration camps there wasn’t much hope for escaping. They tried but they were killed. This was a place no one wanted to be, they were lied to. And now, they were trapped. The families were split up and they went to different camps around the country. They weren’t allowed to interact with anyone, so I’m sure the kids didn’t like being there. Aren’t kids supposed to get exercise and have fun? Well this place had no time for fun. It’s all survival.

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  45. Colin S. - Great job researching. You have many details about life in the camps. If you were to attempt an escape, would you go alone or do you think you would have tried to save others?

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  46. paige i agree with you. they were lied to and i just agh. it makes me mad to think that you would kill all these people because they are different!! isnt there a reason we arent all the same??

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  47. i dont think that i could live here, im spoiled, and here they couldnt even go to the bathroom when they needed! i couldnt live... no no no! its just horrible to think about what they did to the jews. and to think they had to live like this for a couple of years! nope not me! i dont think anyone in our school could live.

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  48. colin- good research. i agree with you on alot. they had a bad time there

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  49. I agree with colin with the worst being the back breaking work because they would be doing that from the time they got up to the time they went to bed and that was a long time. Then they also had a nasty breakfast and only got to use the bathroom once before going to work. During all this the families would most likley be separated but maybe they would stay together. Then when they had to do the work and they didn't want to, they would get beaten by the german's or even shot on the spot. Also sometimes the german's would just torture the jews for no reason and they would tell the doctor to treat them and that would be their type of reward. Just by seeing that little bit you can tell that the jews life was hard and noone would ever want to go threw that again. I would be scared out of my mind to have to live at one of those concentration camps and sleep in those hard wooden beds and eat the nasty un-human food. If i had to go to one of these concentration camps i would try to escape and see what happens then.

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  50. The concentration camps by the least were to me inhumane. To have to get up at 3:00 Am was the least of the worries. First of all was the houseing. You would have to sleep in a stiff mattres, and when you wake up you would have to make it perfectly. Then, there was the bathrooms. The water was dirty and there was only a few faucets for up to 4,500 people to share. After that, you would have water and a piece of bread for breakfast. I couldn't imagine havin to do all that work on such a small ration of food and drink.The labor that was done is so much more than you could even imagine. You had to bury your own killed friends, they were burned, shot, gased, work to death, and starved to death.For punishment for messing up the labor or other things like that was 25-50 lashes OUCH! If I was there i would tried my luck and make a run for it, and if i was killed, i would have put out of my misery. You also had to build supplies for the enemy, so you were helping the people who were torturing you every day. Even with all that happening, personaly i don't think that was the worst. The worst had to be the seperation of families. My mother and father would be off somewhere and i would always be thinking if they are still alive, will i see them again, i really think that thought is outside of imaginable.

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  51. I agree with you brittney, I'm spoiled and I couldnt survive there. I think any body in these country could live in those conditions. By the way, great information!

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  52. A normal day for you probably consists of waking up, going to school and maybe even an after school sport. But what if normal was waking up to a brutal day of work and possibility of death. That’s how it was for the people living in the holocaust camps. The bunks they lived in had beds in them only, and really they weren't beds, just rotten straw that was completely infested. They started their day around 4:00 to 5:00 a.m. to be prepared to do work. Their work was tasks like laying sod, digging drainage ditches, or unloading different materials. If they refused to do work they were beaten. Meals in the camps were scarce. Breakfast normally entailed of coffee made from ground water and 1 slice of bread. Lunch and dinner were given only if their work was complete and those meals were often taken away for punishment. Most prisoners didn’t make it out alive. They were killed in different ways like being beaten or gassed. The bodies were piled up like they were materials rather actual people and ever 24 hours trucks would come and take the bodies away.

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  53. The Concentration Camps that were used during the Holocaust to hold the “prisoners” were unbearable. To start off the morning, the people in the camps were forced to wake up at 3am. I have never woken up at three o’clock in the morning before. At this hour, the prisoners should not have been awake. They worked so hard and late, that they got only a few hours of sleep. Once the “different” people were awake, they had to make their beds so that they were perfect. I barely can remember to make my bed in the morning, or I don’t have time. My punishment is usually something like no TV that night. The punishment for someone in concentration camp that didn’t make their bed was at least 25 lashes. After this, the prisoners were given a “breakfast” of black, bitter coffee. The breakfast that was given to the occupants of the camp was neither enough to keep them healthy, or to give them enough energy to complete that days work. Next, the day’s labor. The people in the camp were forced to do hard work. They had to do things like dig or work on farms, and build more parts to the camps. These jobs were difficult, but not too out of the ordinary in my opinion. The part of the work that bothers me is how the German’s reacted to the prisoners work. The prisoners could be working really hard and getting their job done well, but they would still get beaten. The German’s would beat the prisoners until they were severely injured or close to death, for no reason other than they thought it was fun. What kind of persons beats someone for fun? You would have to be completely crazy and evil to feel this way. Despite this, there were plenty of people who made the prisoners suffer this way.

    Gabby Simpson

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  54. I think the Nazis were way to harsh on the Jews. I mean its one thing to be put in a inhumane prison for life but did the Nazis really have to bring it to a point that the prisons would prefer death over life in the camps?

    Would it be better to accept the horrible life in the camps or attempt to escape/resist?

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  55. A typical day in a consentration camp was very rough you had to wake up at 4:00 at the break of dawn. When you got up you had to do loads of labor such as digging graves or even moving dead bodys.

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  56. Life as a Jew was very hard during the Holocaust. They had very harsh punishments such as whipping/lashing, beating and sometimes shooting the Jewish prisoners. They only got 2 square yards of living space and got very old, dirty clothes to wear(usualy one pair). They got up very early, most of the time 3a.m, and they got 1 litre of black coffee for breakfast. They worked all day some people doing sewer repairs, some building railways and others to take out manure but even though they worked all day i still think the hardest part would've been to watch the other Jews get and beat and watch your own family and children get shot and killed. Sometimes they got soup for "lunch" other times they went hungry for days. There was also what was called a washroom but there were very few faucets and 4500 Jewish people. Also they had no soap or towels to use. One time on October 14, 1943, 300 jewish inmates tried to escape so they rebelled killing only 4 S.S. soldiers and in the end only 50 Jews made it out.Many of the Jews were shot but a lot of the others were also killed in the gas chambers and cremated. Jewish family's were broken apart and killed, most of the time the family was killed.

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  57. The prisoners in the camp had to wake up at 3:00 a.m. and make their bed flawlessly. I can barely wake up at 6:00 and even make my bed. Having to start the day with a "breakfast" of only black coffee would practically kill me right there. I can't make it to lunch without a real breakfast. The labor would be tough but eventually I think you'd be able to get used to it.
    The daily beatings are just terrible to think about. The things that the Nazis did were just sickening. I would rather die leading a rebellion in the camp than to be beaten and starved to death. I f you were unlucky enough to be beaten at the camp you will surely have broken bones.

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  58. Being spoiled today to me does not mean you won't be able to survive in a concentration camp back then. i think if you had the strength and the will power to survive you could have done it.

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  59. A typical day in the concentration camp was like hell...Jordan Kiger makes a great point they have to spend 10-14 hours in mines and doing work all day.

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  60. to;ackeal
    what did you learn from the concentration camp.

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  61. I agree with shaquille, If there rooms werent clean they were given 25 lashes.

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  62. I can not see how people got up every morning knowing that they would be worked to death or just be killed for doing something wrong.

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  63. Sam Carfora good job putting the events of an average day in a concentration camp in a sequential order.

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  64. shaqullie hanzer
    i think that it is soooo sad that the people tryed to get help they still got beat and that they had to sit soo close in a bed.

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  65. after doing many research, i cant believe how many people were murdered because of hitlers, "perfect" people!!!! no wonder hitler commited suicide,,, he killed millions and millions of young, innocent children and adults.........for NO reason.....

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  66. Wow Sophia I cant imagine eating watery and tasteless soup everyday and one small piece of bread.

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  67. After doing many research, i couldnt believe how many jews were killed by hitler. and the concetration camps were very difficult to survive in! expecially with hitler running them. no wonder he committed suicide, he probably felt bad about all of millions of innocent lives he took away!!

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  68. Sam, you did a great job on describing the average day in a cocentration camp! it is sooo depressing thinking about little kids being seperated by their parents and never seeing them again. that is just a heart wrencher!! do you know what happened to the survivors? were they ever interveiwed?

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  69. I found it to be very sad that the temp.of the barrack depended on the weather outside. if it was snowing outside it was basically snowing inside.an about three people had one thin blanket to share amoung each other.that is very disturbing

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  70. I think its really crazy how people have to get up real early in the morning just to take role and make beds. I also hate how people had to eat out of the same bowls they used the bathroom in.

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  71. I agree with sarah that is very nasty how they had to eat out of what they used the bath room in.Its not like they could clean it out either they had to eat/drink what was ibn there. I bet that is why they were sick so often.

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  72. After doing research I think that living in a concentration camp must have benn awful for those people. I don't think I could be able to live one day at one of those camps. First of all they had to wake up at 3:00 a.m and make their beds then they had to stand in a line for hours just to make sure that no one escaped. Another thing that I think was awful was the people had to eat and drink out of dirty dishes. I think the whole idea of a concentration camp is extremely disturbing.

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  73. I read that the Nazi's made people in the constration camp dig holes and someone commented say "they were digging their own grave" Werent the people burned that died? Didnt they like stack dead people and burn them? I saw a picture of dead bodies on fire, or was that just another way to get rid of all the dead bodies lying around.

    I also read "During the day they had to clean bathrooms" I heard they went to the bathroom on their food plates.

    I was reading an article that said they had to wake up at 3 in the morning, people say it sounds bad to wake up that early but what time did they go to bed because if they went to bed early then it wouldnt really affect you if you got enough hours of sleep to function but the almost to nothing food might affected their strength.

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  74. WOW! I agree with JAcob Very much so. It is really terrible that people had to get up so early in the morning. Also i cant believe that people only have such a little space to sleep and live. We complain because we have a small house but they had a couple square feet of space to live. Thats insane!!!!

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  75. John Syryla I like the way that you described the horrible events that took place during the Holocaust

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  76. Jordan Kiger, yes hopefully that does not happen again. The Jews were really hopeless and treated terribly, nice elaberation on that.

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  77. Werent jewish children sent to consentration camp?

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  78. cheyene yes jewish kids were sent to those camps

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  79. wow,Trinity i did not know they had to dig thier own grave thats horrible.

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  80. Its pretty sick the things the victims had to do at the concentration camps like digging graves for the dead, which could be them in a few days. One thing i dont understand is how the Nazi's could do this all day and not feel bad or anything even if they believed it was right..Its just really disturbing to me the things the Nazi's did to the Jews.

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  81. A typical day in the conceration camps started at 3am. After they got up and took a very poor shower they went to go get something to eat. There morning meal consisted of "ersatz coffee and a small ration of bread." After they were done eating they went to back there barrack. "The prisoners slept on hard boards in teired bunks in poorly ventilated barracks. OVercrowing added to the misery." IF they were late for head count they got the gallows.Life for these people musat have been miserable.I would not want to live there if i were them at all, Because I would not want to be hit, beat,and just liveing in the constant fear that I could be dead the next day. People were dying of being "gassed, lethal injections,rampant, particularly dysentery, typhus,scabies and tuberculosis."

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  82. The most information i got was Hitlers rise to power. I asked how did hitler rise to power, and I found out that he went to bars, and spoke to people. I also found out as a young boy Hitler wanted to be a priest.

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  83. The mostinformation I got was on persecution in Germany.I asked what sterilization was and they said it was a law that said no Jews could have kids and Germans would mark Jew doors. Hitler tried to create perfect human called an Arian.An Arian was a white Anglo-Saxon,blonde hair,blue eyes, and had to be tall.


    Mike Jonez

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  84. i agree with them all. this is really just crazy. i think that i couldnt survive and would the kids get any education there?

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  85. britttneyy keeennnApril 9, 2009 at 6:04 AM

    i wonder how long it took some of the kids to know there at there death camp. im sure the adults wanted to tell the kids but i think that would be hard wiht people "missing" well being killed left and right. everything is horrible. they would cry, but its not like they would be saved. how could you kill kids! it would be hard enough for me to kill adults but to kill 3 year old children!!!! heartless people!!!

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  86. What i have learned is that The officers or soldiers of Germany on a typical day they acted "high" in command and thought they wouldnt be touched and were in control of everyone that was at the camps.

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  87. Later on when some of the jews became useless in the concentration camps they were thrown into big hot ovens dead or alive. Or thrown on top of each other dead or alive in large mass graves.Sometimes even if they were lucky they were fed a piece of moldy bread and a cup bitter black coffee.Most of them were either gased,shot,burned,starved to death or killed without notice.

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  88. ~~Sarah
    I agree with you it is crazy how the people in the concentration camps had to get up so early. I mean I know I already have a hard time getting up at 6am so getting up at 3am no way! I can't wake up at 3am because i don't think I get enough sleep as is!!

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  89. I think the holocaust was a horrible event in history. I look at pictures of people in the camps and they were so skinny you could see every outline of every bone. It makes me wonder how cruel someone could be to other people just because of their religion or looks. The one thing that i learned that shocked me most is that when people were so weak from lack of food they turned to eating roots of plants, grass and dirt to stay alive. That's so sad.

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  90. One thing IO don't like about the concentration camps that is also gross is how the people at the camps only wore one outfit. This outfit was most likely to have come off a dead body. They weren't allowed to bring their own fresh clothing or belongings with them into the camps. All they had with them was their families but even then the families were sometimes separated because that just shows how "nice" the Nazis were.

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  91. Yesterday when we were learning about other topics, I found the typical day in the concentration camps the most interesting topic. I had no idea how brutally the Jewish people were treated. Courtney told me that 4,500 people had to share just one washroom. I can't even imagine how dirty and nasty that would be. People in the camps even had to dig their own holes for their bathrooms, and some people even fell into the holes and died. The holocaust was such a horrible part of world history. People were killed for no reason at all. The way that Hitler tricked people into the concentration camps to later kill them is just horrible. The filth and starvation these people had to endure for simply believing in a certain thing or looking a certain way is certainly something that will never be forgotten.

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  92. The Holocaust By the least was unhamane and inamagianable. If i was part of this i would have killed myself. Also, The way Hitler and his army captured Europe North parts of Africa, and deep parts of Russia in so little time was unbelievable. Also the use of propoganda to produce the opinions of Jews and other races was brilliant but horrible.Overall Hitler was a genius, but used his smarts in the wrong unhumane way. He was a waste of a good mind.

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  93. Also when the germans retreated they took allthier evidance(people)with them trying to hide all the people. How in the freakin world would they hide all of them with people dying along the road I mean come on how dumb can you get.

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  94. I think that Jacob Hyde had a really good question. I was kind of thinking about that myself and I coulnd't come up with an answer. I don't know exactly what it was like in the camps, but I think if I had been there I might have tried to escape if there was any way that seemed like it would be worth risking my life even further. What do you think?

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  95. the holocaust was a very unpleasent thing...because they had to get up at 3:00 am and then they would have to work all-day then they wouldnt go back to bed untill aleast 9:00-12:00 pm...and they didnt have much food all they had was @ 5 they had black bitter coffee then agian @ 12 they would get a little bit of soup made of whatever they could find and maybe if they were lucky they would get something for dinner.!

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  96. wow...i didnt know they were thrown into big ovens dead or alive...way to go on finding that sarah f.

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  97. brittney keen:
    did they treat kids the same way as their parents(adults). Or old people?? were they all treted the same like were they all beat, and shot, and whipped like any healthy person? when you think about it thats really sad bc now in times people get in mad trouble beating kids of elderly people. its not right ecspecailly children their soo small and i could never imagine hurting an inocent child.

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  98. Helllllo!
    quick question: as i scroll down more and more, I keep reding that the prisoners in concentration camps had to wake up at 3am. why is that? was it because the each had special jobs to do? was there a "special ritual" they had to perform before the day started?

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  99. My topic was Maps and Timelines, but during my research I also found out that 600,000 people were brought to concentration camps daily. That is a redicilus amount!

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  100. A typical Day in the cosentration camp was a terrible and extremly frighting experience,they woke up at 3.am they ate watery soups.These camps were formed for the non-jews.

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  101. Tiara uhm no there wasnt any special ritual its just that they had to do a headcount to make sure non of the prisoners had gotten away and they wanted to get them up as early as they could so they could get as much work out of them as they could.

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  102. wow i cant believe they had to get up at 3...thats just crazy!
    i cant even imagining going through all that during the day, and then on top of that,
    they barely got any sleep!

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  103. Sam R. why did they have to get up at 3 in the morning and what other jobs did they do besides digging a pit and plowing fields?

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  104. Did you know at the Auschwitz concentration camp there were 405,000 prisoners recorded as laborers in 5 years. Of those 405,000 prisoners 340,000 died of brutal beatings, starvation, executions, or sicknesses.

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