what is the daily life of a prisoner in a concentratiom camp like?

Question

what do prisoners in a concentration camp do?

Answer 1

My Dad was in the Bataan death march and in a Japanese concentration camp for almost eight months in the Philippines. He said the Japanese were very cruel and mean. My Dad said that only 100 out of 1,000 prisoners survived. All the prisoners would sit or walk around a small area. That was all they were allowed to do besides cleaning up after the Japanese or burying the dead prisoners, The Japanese fed them (if they feed them) a pot of water with some rice floating around if they were lucky. My Mother said that she didn't even recognize my Dad because he was all skin and bones. He was too weak to even walk, they had to carry him home. They had to feed him small amounts of eggs because his stomach couldn't handle too much food at first. My Dad didn't talk about the time he spent in concentration camp until a few months before he died at the age of 68. I ask my father how he felt about my brother-in-law who is Japanese (Hawaiian born) and he said that my brother-in-law is "of another generation"

Answer 2

For a true and accurate account of this you need to go to a library or search online. Most of these prisoners could be dead now, only children could be still alive after all these years and they might have given an account of what they did whilst in the camps. Someone once told me and I don't know whether this is true or not, that they visited Auschwitz and there was an open gate, nothing was living on the other side of the gate, no grass, trees etc, and no birds or insects were there., but at the side where the visitors stood everything was normal. I cannot imagine what those poor people went through all those years ago.

Answer 3

all you need to do is ask the prisoner, there have been some here in the US with the japs during the D day time, yes we had concentration camps. then of course there is gautamino bay, but it will be hard to ask them yourself. there have been people in a lot of groups in those camps Jews, Polish, Japanese. try nursing homes. i'm sure some want the truth to be told and some one to listen.

Answer 4

That depends on who the hosts are. You must have seen many films about the concentration camps to draw your own opinion. In many people's opinions, many countries are now concentration camps such as Burma and Taliban areas and Iran.

Answer 5

Try googling FEPOW (Far Eastern Prisoners of War) for experiences, there are many online. I run a FEPOW Club in the UK and it depends which camp or country they were in (btw in WW2 they are not referred to as 'concentration camps' that term normally applies to the German extermination camps).

There were FEPOW camps throughout Asia - obviously the Thai Burma Railway ones, but others where they were also worked to death ... the Sumatra Railway, the runways of Java, Haruku & Ambon, the dockyards of Japan, the mines of Taiwan (then Formosa) & Japan etc etc etc.

Most did not have a chance to sit around as they were put to work (against the Geneva Convention of course).

Hope this helps!!

Answer 6

a concentration camp is basically a prison, with the exception of random killings, poisoned bath houses, and weird stuff like that

and basically what they did in the camp was sit around and wait to be killed.....

Answer 7

Depends but generally, pretty sh*tty. Sleep on ground or straw mat, in the mud. Wake up, no breakfast, some dirty water, chat with friends or be put to work. Lunch, bowl of tasteless gruel, some dirty water. chat with friends, be put to work, Dinner, bowl of tasteless gruel, some dirty water. chat with friends. No showers, shave all body hair to discourage lice and fleas, high possibility of getting disentary, crotch rot, legionaires disease. Rapid weight loss, daily beatings, sleep deprivation, interrogation, possibly tortured. No medical supplies, very little in the way of doctors. Get sick, left to die. Too weak to work, possibly shot. Lead insurrection = execution. Generally it's pretty shi*ty way to live.

Answer 8

Bloody awful I would think, they spent all their time just tring to survive. Some who were fit enough were made to work do all sorts of jobs, they were used as slave labour in munition factories.

Answer 9

I don't think they have consentration camps any more, they, are called prisons nowadays

Mind you are right they should have them and lock some of the scum up

Answer 10

much like working in a call centre