The prisoners were brought to Buchenwald by train. Along the way, the train would stop to remove the dead, and put them into another boxcar.
Many of the living prisoners almost felt happy to see the dead being removed because it meant that there would be
more room to sit.
Like other camps, the prisoners were given a number that was tattooed on their arm. They had no real name.
The prisoners were forced to work fourteen to fifteen hours a day.
Only small rations of bread were given to the prisoners.
Some of the prisoners were taken into laboratories, where they were administered injections. These injections usually tested the lethal dose of a certain poison. If the prisoner did not die, they were sent to the gas chamber, and then dissected.