What+treatment+did+the+survivors+experience+inside+the+concentration+camps+(how+they+survived)?

What treatment did the survivors experience inside the concentration camps (how they survived)?  In the beginning the concentration camps were used as places to keep the prisoners of war, but then were turned into extermination on death camps by 1939 that lead to the death of over six million people. Germans shipped Jews (and other "undesirables", such as Gypsies or disabled people) to concentration camps. The killing of the people in the camps were carried out in various brutal was, but mostly with the use of Gas Chambers and "the chimney ". The Germans told the Jews in the ghettos to round up and that were going to be sent to work in “the east”. This was a huge shock for most of the people because the camps were about 20 times worse than the ghettos they stayed in. The people were taken there in very small cattle cars and forced to stand. In these camps the people experienced through labor which basically means you were worked to death. "We know you want to die, but nothing will save you; you will have to go to work." This was heard from the cattle cars when the soilders would get the people off the tra ins and take them into the camps. This statement was surly misleading because this lead people to think that work not death was in store for them. Many people in the camps were not just physically harmed, they were mentally harmed, suffered from disease due to neglect, and experienced no heat, water, or health care, Siegfried Halbreich a survivor of the holocaust fled with a friend after Germany invaded Poland but was caught and turned in. He was then transported to Sachsenhausen he was one of the first polish Jews to be transported there while there he was forced to do labor. Then After two years, Siegfried was deported to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, he was forced to work in the stone quarry. On October 1942, Siegfried was deported from Gross-Rosen to the Auschwitz camp in occupied Poland. When he was there he tried to use his prior knowledge in medicine to help ill prisoners. He was then forced on a death march from the camp only a few people survived he was one of them. Most people who survived in these camps stayed quiet and hidden so they wouldn’t bring attention to themselves. Also so that the people could survive, the prisoners looked for ways of remaining human to not loose there mind and become crazy. They began to live an inner life, one that the guards and the camp could not reach to destroy.




 * //“Hope and terror wer ////e arts t ////he //// Nazis used skillfully to keep Jews under control until they could be destroyed.”(Seymour Rossel) //**