Case Study: Daily Life At Auschwitz

Question 1

Travelled

Answer 1

In cattle trucks, no light, crowded, little/no food, toilet was a bucket, insanitary, many died on the way there

Question 2

On arrival

Answer 2

You were split off into groups, stripped, head shaved, numbered (dehumanised)

Question 3

Camp huts

Answer 3

Were overcrowded, cold, shared a bed with a couple people, people you slept beside would die in the middle of the night

Question 4

Food

Answer 4

Around 1200 calories a day, 2 slices of toast in the morning, soup in the afternoon and 2 slices of toast again for supper - they slowly starved their prisoners

Question 5

Hospitals

Answer 5

Fleas and lice filled the hospital premises usually if you went in you came out dead

Question 6

Jobs

Answer 6

Sorting prisoners possessions in the kanada section, labour - basically worked to death, burning bodies in the crematoria

Question 7

Punishments

Answer 7

Death or standing cells

Question 8

Gas chambers

Answer 8

Zyklon b was used, there were 4 large gas chambers in operation between march-June 25-26 1943. 2000 people at a time