Jobs+in+the+death+camp.

Surprisingly there were very many jobs in a death camp, all of which were highly coveted. In many cases having a job made the difference between life and death. The best jobs in the death camp belonged to those of the “court Jews”. Their job was to sort and store the spoils of prisoners once they entered the camp, as well as when they left for the Gaskammer (the gas chamber). Another coveted job in the camp belonged to women who were given wool from prisoners luggage and told o make sock and under coats for the SS guards. They were given copious amounts of soap and water in order to make sure that the SS men's clothing would not be infected by lice. They were also given food almost equal to the guards, heated rooms, and sometimes personal servants. A more common, yet even stranger job was that of the musicians. Every camp had an orchestra and a conductor that regularly practiced and performed for the inmates and guards. Every morning they played for the prisoners as they walked to work, every time a truck of new arrivals, or a high official came to the camp they played, as well as when the gas chambers were uses; to drown out the screams from inside. Extra food, cloathing, and special privlages were all to gain from haveing a more luxurous job besides the common hard labor. Usually thing that were gained were later on used as bribary for guards to look the other way, or in many cases just more food, which could mean the difference between being outside working and being scraped out of a crematoria.

Click [|here]to see a real life example of just how young people were when they got a "job", and how much they were really needed to survive. This is a short clipit of the story of Thomas Buergenthal, and how at ten years old he requested a job in a nazi death camp just to keep himself ALIVE.