content: This.  There was even a brothel in Auschwitz. If you happen to be in the main camp(not the Brzezinka), look for a barrel sign on one of the barrel building near the gate.  Auschwitz was a concentration camp, not a death camp like Bełżec. Individual people could survive there for years, if they had right protection: money, power, luck, protectors. That doesn't mean the majority of people there weren't killed.  Stanisław Grzesiuk's "Pięć lat kacetu" is his story of survival of 5 years in concentration camps, the simplest, the most honest and brutal, the most interesting. Of course not translated.  You may get some indirect tips about communists protecting their people from The Centurions by Jean Larteguy.  It's amazing how little you know and how easy you all are to manipulate - in any direction.  Do research Chaim Rumkowski and Adam Czerniaków. Two short bios and you will understand how different people reacted to the Holocaust - and tried to survive.