EVERY DAY LIFE IN THE HOLOCAUST Many people from different countries where held as prisoners in concentration and death camps. The main victims of these camps were the Jews. They were discriminated because of their religion and there way of life. The number one reason why concentration and death camps ever existed was because of hate. The three main obstacles the Jews had to face in the holocaust were starvation, famine, and torture. The word …showed first 75 words of 1238 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1238 total…for the gas chamber would be the end of him. Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945.(Kuper 11) The war was over and 60% of Jews in Poland were already exterminated. All the prisons were freed and their gates opened. Europe swarmed with millions of people set free from labor camps, jails and concentration camps, joined by the mutilation of workers who were departed to Germany for forced labor. Approximately 300,000 Jews were left a live out of 3.5 million.(Rogasky 24)