When you think about World War II, one sharp image that comes to mind.
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 canals surrounding the perimeter. There.
were 250 wooden and stone barracks used to hold an overflowing amount of prisoners,.
overcrowding every shack. Leading into the camp were a series of train tracks which.
transported these prisoners into the camp. They would probably end up in one of the five.
different gas chambers located within Auschwitz.
Auschwitz - Birkenau could hold up to 70,000 prisoners at a time. Mostly these.
prisoners were Jewish, but there were also a good amount of Germans, Polish people, and.
gypsies. The largest amount of prisoners in Auschwitz was in 1943 when there was.
approximately 100,000 inmates. Then up and running strong, the Nazi's were bringing in.
12,000 new arrivals a day.
The name Auschwitz rings terror to the ears of so many. ... Some think that at least 1,100,000 Jews from all of Europe died at Auschwitz. ... Auschwitz was actually a series of three camps. ... The second part was Auschwitz II also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau. ... Most of the victims of Auschwitz were murdered here. ...
Auschwitz Located thirty seven miles west of Krakow , Auschwitz was the camp where Jewish people were killed and were worked to death . ... The prisoners at Auschwitz mainly consisted of Jews . ... The best known doctor at Auschwitz was Josef Mangele . ... Auschwitz was made up of three parts : first Auschwitz was the main concentration camp and also the first and oldest . ... Birkenau was the largest part of the Auschwitz camp . ...
Recently, there has been an ongoing debate on whether or not Auschwitz should be maintained. To our readers who may not know, Auschwitz was the biggest Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust, consisting of 48 smaller concentration, extermination, and labour camps it comprised 3 large camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and a work camp called Auschwitz III-Monowitz. ... Even with other countries helping however, Poland still funds 94% of the total funding of Auschwitz (again according to the BBC), so cost is still an issue. ... Former Auschwitz inmate Wladyslaw Bartoszewski made ...
Auschwitz Auschwitz began as a barracks camp in the town of Oswiecim, for the polish army in the early 1930's. ... Hoss was Auschwitz's first commandant. ... The conditions at Auschwitz were unthinkable. ... Punishment at Auschwitz was sever and biased. ... Winter at Auschwitz was even worse. ...
One of the most famous camps, would be Auschwitz. ... In his novel, he wrote about Auschwitz being "the worst time of his life.... When arriving to Auschwitz, the unloading of rail transports of prisoners took place on a ramp beside the camp in the prison huts of Auschwitz I. ... They would be given their "souvenir" of their stay at Auschwitz. ... Although there were many different camps at the Auschwitz grounds, the main one is Auschwitz I. ...
It was a sign that hung over the gates of Auschwitz. ... The inmates of Auschwitz hardly had clothes. ... The doctors of Auschwitz played a crucial role. ... Resistance was almost impossible in Auschwitz. ... He came to Auschwitz in 1941. ...
Levi was a twenty four year old chemist when he arrived in Auschwitz. ... However, he survived eleven months in Auschwitz. ... However, it could be interpreted that he lost himself in Auschwitz. ... Primo Levi speaks of Auschwitz with the mentality of a prisoner. ... Perhaps Levi survived Auschwitz physically but not mentally. ...
Over the years Auschwitz began to expand into three separate parts. ... On March 1941, Himmler ordered the construction of Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, which was a larger section of the camp, 1.9 miles from Auschwitz I (Museum 1). Birkenau held up to 100,000 prisoners (Auschwitz) and was known as the most cruel and heartless section of Auschwitz. ... As soon as the prisoners arrived in Auschwitz they went through a process known as selection. ... Mengele voluntarily went to Auschwitz to conduct medical experiments, primarily on twins (Auschwitz). ...
That is what Auschwitz is all about. ... The people at Auschwitz had to deal with many hygiene problems. ... All of these terror took place in Block 10 of Auschwitz. ... The gas used was Zyklon B (Auschwitz, pg.23). ... Mengele or of Auschwitz only four out of ten people had. ...
