Theodore was the former prisoner of the Dachau prison camp, he was sent there when he was 21 on the day after Kristalnacht. His parents died in a concentration camp in France. Luckily however, in 1941 he was released from the camp under the condition that he would immediately leave Germany, before “The Final Solution” was enforced. The inmates at Dachau were issued a quarter loaf of bread to last three days, were given a barley drink in the mornings, and sometimes got watery soup with a potato and a little bit of fish. He wasn’t issued underwear, hats, or gloves. His prison uniform would freeze when it was wet. In the first night, 500 men were put into a room designed to hold 50. He was shot in the knee with two 9 mm bullets, and was stabbed once while in a room (someone took the bullets out with a fingernail file later). Three times a day they were counted, and no one escaped the camp. There were some musicians and comedians among the prisoners, and apparently one got hold of a violin.
There is more information available at this link:
http://jpfo.org/filegen-n-z/survive.htm
Zelman, Aaron. Haas, Theodore. JPFO. Full interview with Holocaust survivor, Theodore Haas. Web. May 15, 2014.