The horror of the seven-day journey to Belsen concentration camp along with Miki, his mother Judith, his grandmother Rosalia, his aunt Margo, and cousin Chava was unbearable. Conditions in Bergren Belsen were horrendous , there was very little food and water. There were no toilet facilities in Belsen which led to an awful stench throughout the camp , at first the smell was unbearable but the prisoners soon got used to.Many of the prisoners wore very little clothing which were mostly rags and scrap material.The prisoners had no source of heat so they had to huddle together to keep warm. The prisoners were weak and frail due to the malnurishment. Both adults and children were treated the same , they were abused both physically and mentally by the SS guards who didn’t allow any child to live happy lives.
Although it has obtained some successes at the beginning, the dramatic changes were not far away. Russia was badly equipped and led; the army suffered a run of disastrous defeats as well as the rail way signalling system breakage of food transportation, causing blocked lines and trains being abandoned, over 200,000 men were found dead. Food riots broke out in Russia’s countryside and major cities. Because Russia was receiving supplies and support from their European allies the provisional government refused to pull out of the war, and began announcing new offensives. Loyal army has been replaced with around 15 million peasants, the army had sympathised with workers and themselves along with the navy began mutiny against a government they had no wish to fight and die for with the Bolsheviks rioting.
Several hundred three-tier wooden bunk beds were installed in each building. The overcrowding in Auschwitz I forced basements and lofts into use as living quarters, as well. (Alexander 1964) labor was one of the means used to destroy prisoners. The Nazi’s also didn't give a lot of food to any of the prisoners so most of them would be skin and bones, and under theses conditions they would have to indue labor up to eleven hours a day minimum. After they were killed the Nazi’s would take all of there possessions and cut there hair to make some sort of fabric out of it, Page
And in addition to the issue of heating and cooling, they had no heaters, so all of the workers were freezing in the winter. To continue with the list of detrimental things, health and safety were huge factors that were completely ignored. The textile workers in particular had to work in an environment where they had to breathe in fiber and dust all day long, for hours on end. And unfortunately, for many of the workers, this led to lung cancer. With the safety issue, they had poor lighting in the buildings and lack of safety devices on the machines, and as a result there were many hand and arm injuries that went as far as completely crushing the bone.
The storms and floods had taken all the good soil in the 1930s. People survived off of beans, rice, corn, and milk. Many slaughtered the cattle for meat because there was no market. All around the world people were living in horrible living conditions and there were not many jobs for those in need. Over 25% of people were unemployed and houses were being foreclosed
“In most camps, the standard uniform consisted of pajama-like trousers and shirts or dresses of a blue-and-gray-striped material with matching caps and wooden clogs for shoes”(Lace 44). They were also barely given any food and were tortured by hunger and thirst. “Terrible as the food was, prisoners would go to any length to get it… prisoners ate and drank anything they could”(Lace 49). This displays how prisoners were basically starved to death by lack of food provided for them. Therefore,
The majority of the victims who came from both Western and Eastern Europe also and other countries were there next destination was and of their fate. They were transported like animals in cattle-cars and arrived in a state of total collapse to the camp. Most of the people actually never really entered the camp, but just crossed it on the way to the gas chambers. The dehumanized minority often became registered prisoners with shaved heads in striped uniforms. Jews chosen for slave labor were stripped of everything, including outward differentiation between male and female.
Many monopoly owners did not care about what was put in their product and just cared about profit. Immigrants had to buy these products and consume them because there were few other options to pick from and they were very poor. Most younglings died and most adults faced starvation. Muckrakers tried to fix this and soon enough, Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle in response to what he witnesses. This was a detailed book about horrible working conditions and everything that was put in the meat hoppers.
Many of the people sleeping in these sleeping compartments suffered from dysentery, which only spread throughout the prisoners. Prisoners of Auschwitz concentration camp received three meals daily, according to Anus Mundi, who was a prisoner of this camp for five years.The prisoners were given horrible rations and very few calories which soon led to exhaustion. Mundi recalled thousands of starved prisoners, including himself, who in the last stages of emaciation strived for any opportunity to get something to eat, even rummaging through bins outside the
Many died during these walks, so this journey became known as the “Death March” (“Timeline”).Death Marched took place because Germans wanted to use these prisoners as forced laborers in Germany. These prisoners had to march long distances. These marches took place in bitter cold. Prisoners were given little or no food, water, or rest. Prisoners who could not keep up were shot (“Death