The toilet was the first place prisoners went to after waking up.  After leaving the sleepig area, prisoners all went to do their morning routine.  In the first years of the camp’s operation, the toilet was a large rectangular barracks, where sheet metal and boards served as walls, and the roof was made of eternit.  Its inner space was like in this sketch.The bathrooms were in one side, which were open and doorless, completely removing everyone’s right to intimacy.The only separation was a low one-meter wall separating the spaces between them.Within the space of a toilet, there was simply a hole where they relieved themselves and some cement around to put their feet on.

This is an image of Spaç Camp during the last years of the communist regime.  The camp had exactly this structure at the end of the ‘80s, where two three-story buildings are noticed within the camp, which were used as sleeping areas.  Furthermore, there are also multiple vantage points where armed guards stayed to oversee the camp and make sure prisoners didn’t escape.

Whereas the two carters continued the reinforcement process, the miner hammered holes to put the explosive in and then detonate it after exiting the mine.  All of the rocky mass exploded by the dynamite would be the new work front for the successive shift. The second shift would follow the same routine as the first and then leave the area for the third.

Those who didn’t meet the target were often tied to a column at the tunnels’ exit and left there tied all night or day until the end of the shift. The torture was severely more excruciating during extreme frosts.

This is a view of the prisoners’ cafeteria in the ‘70s.After performing their morning routine in the toilet, prisoners who started first shift would hurry to the cafeteria to have breakfast and go to work.   At 6:00 am, all prisoners who’d work first shift had to have finished their breakfast and be ready to go to the tunnels.For the first shift that worked in the mines, breakfast was soup with seasonal vegetables and sometimes a little meat.But this menu did not apply to those working above ground or in supporting sectors, as they had a poorer diet and they never had meat.