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Death Camp : a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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After surviving the horrors of ghettos, many Jews and members of the Polish population were shipped to death or concentration camps via train. At a death camp, the prisoners would be shot or be forced to walk through areas where bombs were being tested. At concentration camps, large numbers of prisoners would be forced into either big rooms or tiny stalls. Initially, the prisoners thought they were having a communal shower when in reality, they were really being put into gas chambers to die.
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Many of the people being shipped to these death camps died on the train from suffocation due to lack of oxygen caused by the large amount of people in these trains or by the noxious chlorine fumes. Chlorine was used to wash out of the cars in-between train trips because of all the blood and death stench. Those who survived the train ride to these camps came out into areas where pits of dead bodies were lying piled up.
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The hair, clothing, person articles (like glasses), teeth fillings and skin were stripped from these bodies and the bones were taken and ground up for fertilizer. The skin was made into lampshades and the hair was either used as stuffing for furniture or woven to upholster furniture or make rugs. The gold fillings from teeth were melted into gold bars because many countries would not take German money, but these countries would take gold. The clothing was cleaned and sold to the German population or given to the homeless Germans. The human organs were either ground up into animal food or given to animals the way they were. Some officers chose to be cannibels and eat the organs from murdered Jews.
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