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Concentration Camps
As defined by Webster, a Concentration Camp is a place where people are forced to stay in little box, like camps, where they were sometimes illegally killed. People are placed in these camps because o their religious conversations, points of views, ethnic backgrounds, or social attitudes. But to me, a Concentration Camp is s place where many Jews lives were taken.
What really happened in the camps.
The camps were built with the cheapest material possible. Such as wooden or concrete slabs. Along with young children, the Nazis usually killed the mothers, and older sisters. For the children the Nazis showed no mercy. It was estimated that less than ten percent of Europe's Jewish children under the age of sixteen survived the Holocaust. When families where together they usually wanted to use the parents as workers and the children were sent to gas chambers, killed, and sent to mass graves. A lot of the camps had bombs put is them with the people inside to kill them. This was much like the gas chambers. For most Jews, they were to line up on a wall and shot to death like the picture below or dig their own graves, stand in front of it, and have a Nazi shoot them to fall back into the grave.
Uniforms for Camps
In some camps, females wore sack like dresses. In others they wore the same striped uniforms just like males. Females also had to shave their heads like the males. The men wore prisoner like uniforms we see today except with strips and a star on their right arm.
These are bags of hair shaved off of the prisoners in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.