Daily Routine at a Labor Camp

There were many Nazi Labor Camps, but one of the most famous ones, was Auschwitz. Rabbi Laszlo Berkowits was taken to Auschwitz when he was only 16, in 1944. He was released in 1945, and later became a rabbi.

A typical day at a Labor camp is as follows:

• Waking up at about 4 am for morning roll call and breakfast, which consisted of about 10 oz of bread.
  
• Going off to work upon the guards request
  
• Working usually meant 12-14 hours of long, useless tasks such as digging large holes or trenches, carrying heavy sandbags from one place to another or even carrying bricks and stones from one place to another
  
• Guards will whistle for lunch break which consists of a small meal of small portions. Lunch breaks were usually short and some people didn't even get to eat
  
• After lunch break, they would return to work, completing tedious jobs, they were working the people to death
  
• At the end of the day, there is another roll call, and you go to eat another measly meal for dinner, and then the lucky people remaining who have not died will get to go to bed.
  

As you can tell, a day at a Labor Camp was not easy. Guards would try and work people to death.