http://library.thinkquest.org/12663/survivors/witness.html
Summary: In the camps there were posts of barbed wire with a huge sign that read, EXTREME DANGER, HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL WIRES. There were tall guard towers and men with machine guns were inside them. The bunks people slept in were in three tiers, lower, middle, and upper with a burlap mattress filled with straw. The food was terrible, there was never enough, and potatoes were the main ingredient. Played cards for something to do. People were shaved and lucky if they got a shower. Some had lice. Then they were tattooted numbers on their arm. Summer: heat was unbearable. Winter: steel workers froze to steel and tore skin off. Got beat if didn't finish work. No water and no bathrooms in barracks (living quarters in camps). Had to get up at 5 am every morning. Lost a lot of weight. Women's work typically easier than men's?
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