Prisoners were tattooed with a number on their arm or hand. http://http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/tattoos1.html www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007056
to seperate jewish from non jewish prisoners in concentration camps
From a child's perspective concentration camps must have been very bad. They couldn't figure out where they were or why. There were almost no children in concentration camps. The exception being the Gypsy family camps were people were held for experimentation. The vast majority of children were sent to extermination camps, there were of course those who were big enough to pass for adults.
Death marches were the marching of inmates from one concentration camp to another.
Some camps were specifically set up as munitions factories, and prisoners lucky enough to be sent to one of these got slightly better food and slightly better accommodations than prisoners in the death camps. Their labor was important to the Reich, hence some effort was made to keep them alive. The death camps produced nothing for the war effort but recyclables (shoe leather, human hair, etc.) Most of the "work details" in places like Auschwitz were designed to work the prisoners to death - nothing more.
There were three camps at Glewitz (including one women's camp). They were all sub-camps of Auschwitz.
Well the numering was like a ID number to keep track of all of the Jews or prisoners. Its like your name but, with numbers for them.
to seperate jewish from non jewish prisoners in concentration camps
Yes, some inmates of concentration camps were Aryan political prisoners. However, they were not subjected to work like Jewish prisoners. Instead they were given positions of power within the camps. Read Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz for more info. I doubt you will considering your lack of ability to distinguish between 'where' and 'were'
Conditions deteriorated rapidly and over 20% of the prisoners died of malnutrition and/or disease.
The prisoners were housed in wooden or brick built barracks. It was very over crowded, and it was a dreadful living situation. The people lived so close together that diseases were constantly being transferred.
It's common to draw a distinction between 'ordinary' concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald, and extermination camps. The latter existed only for the purpose of killing. They are:Auschwitz II (Birkenau section)BelzecChelmnoMajdanek (part only)SobiborTreblinka IIIn addition, there were transit camps and various 'specialized' camps.
Prisoners were typically identified by a unique number tattooed on their arm at Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz. This identification system was used to dehumanize prisoners and make it easier for the Nazis to keep track of individuals.
The tattoos consisted of a letter and a number.
In the Auschwitz camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Aushwitz III, prisoners had their inmate number tattoo'd on them. It was a way of marking them like cattle, and it ensured their number would always be correct and visible.
From a child's perspective concentration camps must have been very bad. They couldn't figure out where they were or why. There were almost no children in concentration camps. The exception being the Gypsy family camps were people were held for experimentation. The vast majority of children were sent to extermination camps, there were of course those who were big enough to pass for adults.
concentration camps are prisons in a sense where as extermination camps are like death row u will certainly die in a extermination camp.
No, Hitler never went into the Concentration Camps because, he could have caught diseases like Typhus which were common in Concentration Camps.