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“Prisoners lived in old brick barracks. Several hundred wooden bunk beds were installed in each building. The overcrowding in Auschwitz forced basements and lofts into use as living quarters, as well. There were Two types of barracks, brick and wooden, housed prisoners in Birkenstock concentration camp. The brick buildings were erected in great haste, without suitable insulation, on marshy ground. More than 700 people were assigned to each barrack, although in practice the figure was sometimes higher. These barracks lacked any true heating; nor did they contain sanitary facilities.” (Living Conditions, Labor & Executions Page1) Prisoners lived in old brick homes and wooden houses. The higher class got the brick homes because they had installation but the installation was not very good. The wooden houses were given to the lower class. The lower class homes had no installation and had marshy floors. Their was over 700 hundred people in the same home. The prisoners each got wooden bunk beds for them to sleep on. Living in these homes no matter if it home was brick or wood it was still very bad. It was cold at night and it was very uncomfortable. You did not even have heat or AC. Living conditions were not the best it was uncomfortable, cold, and hot depending on the weather and the homes were cramped with 700 people inside of one …show more content…
“In 1942, At Bergen-Belsen, the camp authorities established a women's camp in 1944. The SS transferred thousands of Jewish female prisoners from Ravensbrück and Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen during the last year of World War II. Concentration camp, murdered females with disabilities, killed children and teenagers it was enough they were considered worthless. In Poland, women served as couriers who brought information to the ghettos. Many women escaped to the forests of eastern Poland and the Soviet Union and served in armed partisan units” (Women during the Holocaust Page 1) Certain camps in the concentration camps were specifically made for Jewish women or non Jewish. On May 1944 Adolf transferred 100,000 Jews to concentration camps in the last year of World War II. Women with disabilities were immediately gassed and killed. Most concentration camps were designed just for women.
Daily life in a concentration camp required prisoners to struggle to survive daily, experience dreadful living conditions, and be treated differently depending on gender. The events that happened in the concentration camps were unbearable there were no rests and very little food. There was no fairness between any male, female, teen, or child. Camps did not have warmth or comfortable living conditions. Surviving was very difficult because the food you were given had no nutrition the work you had to do was overwhelming and the difficulty