life in Auschwitz was difficult for all its prisoners, but it was especially harsh for those who followed Judaism. The guards viewed Jews as the least valuable of all the prisoners. The Jews faced the worst mistreatment and often fell to starvation, cold, hard labor, harassment, and abuse. When they first arrived, the guards would determine if they were fit enough to enter the labor, or if they would get sent straight to execution. The decision was usually based on the mood of the guard. If prisoners became sick or injured during their time in Auschwitz a "doctor" could decide to kill them. Some doctors did horrendous experiments on Prisoners like the infamous doctor Josef Mengele known as the "angel of death". 

Day/Evening

During the day, when the sun rose prisoners went to work-the type of work varied from camp to camp, but it was usually pointless tiring work (dig a hole, fill it-move these rocks to that corner, actually that corner. etc) unless you were in a factory. Prisoners were usually forced to march to each place of work on foot (a couple hundred meters to a few kilometers away) keeping up with the rest of the march was ESSENTIAL, people who fell behind were beaten, and tortured. At noon Prisoners were forced to march back to camp for a noon roll call and collect lunch. In later years this would change as lunch would be brought to prisoners where they were working to maximize work time. Work would normally finish at five or six pm each day, or at sunset in the winter. Prisoners would be marched back to camp to participate in the evening roll call, this took hours. People that had died during the day were also brought out to be counted. Nine pm were lights out, and everything would repeat the next day.