Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of psychological aspects of survival in Nazi concentration camps. An analysis of camp everyday life practices, as well as behavioral and psychological strategies of both prisoners and camp management, is presented. Particular attention is focused on the phenomenon of depersonalization, and emotional reactions of people entrapped in extremely harsh life in the camp. As sources for the analyses there were taken the memoirs of famous psychiatrists Viktor Frankl and Bruno Bettelheim, which were based on their personal experiences, psychological observations and insights, since they themselves were prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. The article also refers to the memoirs of R. Hess, which allow us to comprehend the strategies of behavior of camp functionaries and their way of dealing with prisoners and everyday life in the concentration camp.
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