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Slave Labor In Concentration Camps |
Those who did not go to their immediate death, went to "slow death" – the slave labor camps. Usually it was a quarry. But sometimes it was working for the German war effort.
RealAudio account by Mrs. M. (2:04 min.)
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Shaved Women Selected For Forced Labor |
Always it was under the most inhumane conditions.
Read personal accounts.
The Jews "lived" on starvation rations. A daily ration was: a piece of black bread, about as thick as your thumb; some margarine about the size of three sticks of chewing gum; and a small cup of something that was supposed to be soup. Every once in a while
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Prisoners At Work In Mauthausen Concentration Camp |
Read a personal account.
The Nazis liked to have "fun with the Jews." One quarry had a straight, sheer wall, they called a "paratrooper's wall." Every once in a while, a guard would push someone off.
Read an eyewitness account of caught escapees.
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Nazi Having Sadistic "Fun" With Prisoners |
The "smaller" labor camps did not receive the notoriety of the death camps, but could be just as deadly. Out of 16,000 slave laborers in the Kamionka labor camp, only 36 survived the war.
Read a full personal account of life in the Kamionka labor camp.
Read an account of a witness to the liquidation of the Kamionka work camp.







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(39) Ashley , May 27, 2009
Mrs. Broussard's 7th grade class
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(38) Laura G , March 30, 2009
Love the site!
I love this site it helped me alot in with me being in the 7th grade. I pray also for the people who ad to go through such a terrible and awful thing!