The concentration camps were surrounded by barbed wire and forests to prevent escapes. Prisoners were divided - able bodied to work, elderly and children sent to gas chambers. They lived in cramped bunk beds and worked long hours doing manual labor or jobs related to the killings. Children were either killed upon arrival or used for forced labor and medical experiments. Prisoners were barely fed enough to survive on moldy bread and thin soup. Jews were forced to wear the Star of David and faced cruel treatment. While Jews were a primary target, others such as disabled people, Romani, homosexuals and political dissidents were also persecuted under Nazi rule. Around 200,000 Jews survived the Holocaust though many fought back through uprisings

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2. Most were in forest areas , to make escape almost impossible. The
camps were surrounded in barbed wire and the only open areas
were always in the centre of the camp, while the wooded area shut
the camp off from most air and land spies.
On arrival the prisoners were divided into two lots at each
concentration camp. The able-bodied men and women were
separated from the elderly and children. While the children and
elderly were sent to the ‘showers’ the other men and women were
put to work. In there sleeping quarters there were rows of bunked
beds on each bed 3 or more people had to share.
Before entering the showers or pits they were stripped of all
clothing . Hydrogen cyanide or Zyklon B were used to gas the
Jews.

3. The Jews had many kinds of jobs they had to do such as : Cook, Manual
labour, Gardening, painting and decorating, tidying and cleaning, tailor,
barber, cobbler, musician and then there were the jobs that dealt with
death all of these were done by the “special squad.” Some of the
special squad had to calm Jews as they were ushered into the gas
chambers, others had to shave all the hair from the dead bodies to
send to Germany to fill mattresses.

4. Children were killed as they arrived or killed immediately as the were
born. Children born the Ghetto’s and camps survived usually because
prisoners hid them. Children usually over the age of 12 were used as
labourers and as subjects of medical experiments.

5. Mouldy bread, rotten meat, thin soups, few if any fruits or vegetables.
They got given enough food to keep them alive physically. Towards the
end many were lucky to be fed at all because the Nazis were on the run
and supply lines were cut out or compromised.

6. They were made to wear the star of David in view and couldn’t
be hidden, in order to identify that they were Jewish or from
Jewish decent. Past that, the German society was inspired to
treat anyone wearing a star like dogs.

7. Hitler did by far not only attack the Jews, but a lot of Jews died under Nazism. Hitler
wanted to extinguish in some way all people not being according to his Aaryan idea
like : Handicapped people ,gays ,gypsies etc. or people not following his ideas like
political opponents or religious people not supporting his “I'm your rescuer”, like
Jehovah's witnesses.

8. They did fight back in the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt in
1943,they just weren't as organised as an army. Also most
Jews didn’t know that the Nazis were killing them off.
Not many people survived during the Holocaust nobody
knows the exact number but approximately 200,000
survived.

9. Anne Frank, is famous because of her diary. It is the fullest first hand
account by a Jew of life in Nazi occupied Europe. She helped people
learn what it was really like hiding from the Nazis and about life as a
Jew in Nazi occupied Europe during this time. Anne Frank wanted to be
a write but never had the chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-hng2FyQs0

10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-hng2FyQs0