Life In A Concentration Camp

Question 1

How did they get to the camp

Answer 1

Travelled in crowded cattle trucks, they stayed there for hours and days on end. They ate sword fish and dried bread and had no toilet/washing facilities

Question 2

Explain what they did in camp

Answer 2

They were given prison uniform, forced into labour and beaten by SS guards. Men were split up from women and children. There hair was all shaved off, including the hair of children, as they were scared of the lice

Question 3

Explain what they ate

Answer 3

Once a week they ate whale meat, but only a small chunk of it.
Other than the chunk of whale meat, they had some sort of vegetable soup

Question 4

What jobs did they do

Answer 4

• they carried bags of cement for, a river barge to the building sites (1 bag in each shoulder)
• recovery squad
• many had fear of becoming diseases and infected, they feared this as they would no longer be useful to the nazis etc