What did the jews do in the concentration camps during the holocaust?
Camps were an essential part of the Nazis’ systematic oppression and mass murder of Jews, political adversaries, and others considered socially and racially undesirable. There were concentration camps, forced labor camps, extermination or death camps, transit camps, and prisoner-of-war camps. The living conditions of all camps were brutal. A clear distinction must be observed between the death camps, or killing centers, and the concentration camps. In some sense, all of the concentration camps, and there were hundreds of them, were death camps in that thousands of inmates died of starvation, being worked to death, exposure to the elements, epidemics and disease, or simply being executed for alleged crimes. However, the camps are classified on the basis of their primary, or intended, function. Some camps, however, were specifically equipped for mass killing by means of gas chambers and crematoria for disposing of the remains. As noted below, several methods were utilized. In the earlier
