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- On arrival divided into two groups
- Fit = put to work
- Others sent straight to gas chambers
- Older women, mothers with small children and children under 10 were taken away for execution
- Young boys would lie about their age and invent a skill so they could stay alive
- Carbon monoxide and Zyclon B gasses were used to execute prisoners
- Nazis aimed to be efficient
- At Treblinka, 140,000 people were killed each moth
- A lot of gas chambers were fitted out to look like showers so prisoners didn’t know what was going to happen to them
- Dead bodies were burnt in ovens or piled in deep pits
- Prisoners were given awful jobs to do, including moving and cremating the bodies of fellow Jews
- Very little food
- Disease spread easily
- Some inmates used for medical experiments without anaesthetics
