The Auschwitz concentration camp was opened from August 15 1940 to mid January 1945 . The prisoners at Auschwitz mainly consisted of Jews . The prisoners here were feed rations of bread and soup . The bread was usually stale and the soup would have human meat in it or other items such as lip stick , boots , jewelry and teeth . Here the prisoners were worked to the point of death . Trains transported prisoners to the camps , and the guards violently forced them off the train . All of the prisoners property was left on the train also and the dead bodies also . (www.holocaust-history.org) Whe

With the Red Army offensive approaching in the second half of 1944 , the S.S administration began to gradually evacuating Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners to camps in the depths of the Reich . The orders for the final evacuation and liquidation of the camp were issued in mid January 1945 . Approximently 56,000 men and women prisoners were marched out of Auschwitz concentration camp and its sub camps from January 17th to 21st 1945 in columns guarded by heavily armed S.S escorts . Many of the prisoners died during this tragic evacuation which is now known ad the death march .

n they arrived at the camp the prisoners were sent into two different lines , one for the women and the other for the men . The lines moved into the place where a procedure called Selection took place . The ones who could work were not killed at this time , but the women , children and others that could not work were gassed . The prisoners that were good to work had their clothes taken , heads shaved , got sterilized and were given black and white striped clothing to wear . In this force labor camp the average life time was only a few months . Some ways that the Nazi’s killed the jews were: being hanged , dying from mal nutrition and starvation , shot by the guards , thrown into the gas chambers , beat to death by the guards and sometimes even other by other prisoners that wanted their food .(www.nizkor,org)

In conclusion Auschwitz was the biggest concentration camp and today all over the world , Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror , genocide , and the Holocaust . Hitler planned to exterminate a whole race of people which were the Jews . He nearly succeeded until an american attack shut down the camps for good . The overall number of people that died from the concentration camp of Auschwitz between the years 1940 and 1945 is estimated to be between 1,100,000 and 1,500

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