The Suicide Rate in the Concentration Camps was Extraordinarily High: a Comment on Bronisch and Lester

Previous reports, based on limited reports from inmates who survived the Nazi concentration camps, have claimed that suicide was rare in the concentration camps. Using slightly more detailed, but nonetheless still limited, data from survivors of the camps, the author estimates that the suicide rates in the camps were most likely 25,000 per 100,00 per year or higher, & therefore, enormous. (13 refs)