Images of skeletal men and women with shaven heads in striped uniforms flash in your

head. You may also envision the numerous concentration camps run by the Nazi

Regime, the most famous being Auschwitz. Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi

concentration and extermination camps ever built. I will inform you about the setup of

the camp and what took place there, how the life of the prisoners were and what

happened to them while they were held there.

Auschwitz - Birkenau was located about two miles outside the town of Oswiecim,

Poland. The leader of the SS and German police, Heinrich Himmler, ordered its

construction, making it the largest of them all. The purpose of its creation was for the

extermination of a huge mass of people. In March 1941, construction was underway.

Auschwitz became a complex that extended eight miles around, enclosed by an

electrical, barbed-wire fence. The perimeter was fully guarded by SS soldiers in

watchtowers which held machine guns and automatic rifles which were used to shoot

prisoners who made the slightest mistake. Not only equipped with electric fences and

towers, Auschwitz also contained a series of can

Word about Auschwitz, and other concentration camps spread. In the middle of

soldier and shot two SS men. This was a rare case, though; the most common form of

would burst open and I began to scream for hours, then I woke up and my baby was

As mentioned before, the Nazi’s used freight trains to transport this mass number

approximately 100,000 inmates. Then up and running strong, the Nazi’s were bringing in

to experiments with her children. Doctor Mengele took such a large amount of blood

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