Auschwitz: Polish Prisons

Auschwitz was one of the largest and first concentration camp during WW2 and next to Auschwitz were two other death camps that were named Auschwitz ll and lll. At Auschwitz, there was a total of 8 gas chambers and 4 of them can hold up to 2,000 prisoners (Mostly Jews) at a time. There were 11 million people murdered in the Holocaust and it estimated that 6 million Jews were killed and one in six was killed at Auschwitz.

Auschwitz was one of the most infamous and largest concentration camp known during World War II. It was located in the southwestern part of Poland commanded by Rudolf Höss. Auschwitz was first opened on June 14, 1940, much later than most of the other camps. It was in Auschwitz that the lives of so many were taken by methods of the gas chamber, crematoriums, and even from starvation and disease. These methods took "several hundreds and sometimes more than a thousand" lives a day. The majority of the lives killed were those of Jews although Gypsies, Yugoslavs, Poles, and many others of different ethnic backgrounds as well. The things most known about Auschwitz are the process people went through when entering the camp and

“…Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same

Gas chambers were among the many horrific killing and torture methods used in Auschwitz that had been refined over time by the Nazis to exterminate as many people as they possibly could. The people taken to Auschwitz were often killed in gas chambers on the spot after being told they would get a shower. Most of the people who survived had to participate in hard labor and undergo selections often to see if they would get to live a bit longer. However, many of these people, became very emaciated and ill. These people were deprived of their needs until they were so disfigured that the Nazis sent them to the gas chambers and after that the crematoriums. Dr. Mengele also performed inhumane experiments on people of all ages and genders (Auschwitz, 1). On top of that, few managed to survive in Auschwitz,. As stated in Yad Vashem’s article, “ In Auschwitz-Birkenau, more than 1,100,000 Jews, 70,000 Poles, 25,000 Sinti and Roma (Gypsies) and some

Auschwitz Birkenau located in Oswiecim Poland, The holocaust began in May 26, 1940. Over 1.1 million people had died at birkenau many people had died because of hunger, disease, horrible conditions, and the gas chambers. The holocaust began shortly after world war 2 began, hitler and the nazi party rose to power due to political power circumstances. Germans could not believe the defeat that had happened at world war 1, the government in germany so bad with money they needed somebody that could help them out and fix germany.

As the Soviet Union made their way for the camp, the camp began to evacuate its three main camps and 44 subcamps. “SS units forced nearly 60,000 prisoners to march west from the Auschwitz camp system” (“Auschwitz,” n.d.). Prisoners were transported to Germany concentration camps. The travels to these camps were unbearable, and many prisoners lost their lives during the travel or were killed if they could not keep up during the marches. These marches are often referred to as “The Death Marches.” “On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army entered [Auschwitz-Birkenau camps] and liberated around 7,000 prisoners, most of whom were ill and dying” (“Auschwitz,” n.d.).

The Auschwitz-Birkenau camp began construction in October 1941. The camp was originally meant to house 50,000 prisoners of war, but the camp was expanded to house as many as 200,000 inmates.

Camps now a days are fun for children when they are bored during the summer they can stay there for weeks make friends and learn all sorts of new stuff while their parents don’t have to deal with them for a while and are sure they are safe and having fun. The camps that are going to be learned about in this reading are the exact opposite, these camps only terrorize, safety is never an option, death is the only answer, and parents would never want their kids to go to through all of this torture and fear. Auschwitz known as the term for the largest camps during the Holocaust was a complex of camps from concentration, forced-labor to death camps. There were three main areas from the many camps including: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (Birkenau),

When the public learned of the atrocities committed at Auschwitz-Birkenau and other extermination camps, journalists flocked to uncover the stories of those who survived, escaped, and the hundreds of thousands who were lost. However, prior to the allied victory in Europe not much was known about these camps except for the testimonies of the few who managed to escape. These stories were shared with the public as propaganda to muster up support for the allied forces as they made their final advances across Europe in the later years of the war.

After gassing experiments at Auschwitz began in September 1941, with the subjects being approximately 850 malnourished and ill prisoners. By 1942, mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B began to be used at Auschwitz. At least 1.1 million prisoners died at Auschwitz, around 90 percent of them Jewish and approximately 1 in 6 Jews killed in the Holocaust died at the Auschwitz. Others that were deported to Auschwitz included; 150,000 Polish, 23,000 Gypsies,

Slide 1: Auschwitz concentration camp was a chain of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in southern Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was originally created to serve as a detention centre for political prisoners, but it evolved into a network of camps consisting of Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II–Birkenau, Auschwitz III–Monowitz, and 45 sub camps. Slide 2: The total death count at the three main Auschwitz camps was estimated by commissions to be between 1.2 million and 1.5 million people, which included mainly Jews at Birkenau but also Roma, Sinti, Poles, Soviet POWS and political prisoners. As a result, this made Auschwitz one of the most deadly concentration

Meagan Washington Dr. Gold Reading Log: Women’s Literature Author(s): Sara Nomberg- Przytyk; Translated Birth/death dates of author: 1915-1990 Title of book: Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Land Vocabulary 1. liquidation: (n.) the killing of someone, typically by violent means. “I listened to the bickering, and it was difficult for me to believe that these women had experienced the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto and the death of their dear ones.”

The year is 1939. You are in Germany. You have been deemed a most unfortunate status. Being a Jew. However you do not know of your misfortune quite yet. Your country is recovering from an economic and social depression. You hear of a new leader. A leader who will make Germany great again. That leader’s name is Adolf Hitler. To many this sounds like good news. It is not. You and your fellow German citizens lose your rights. The right to free assembly. The right of free press. The right of free speech. You decide that to make Germany great again it is fine for Hitler to revoke your and your fellow Germans’ rights. One day you decide to go to your neighbor to discuss social matters. Your neighbor is a financially stable plump man. You stay for

In June, 1940, the Auschwitz Concentration Camp opened; this camp would later be the home and death place of hundreds of thousands of prisoners. Jews, Poles, and Gypsies made up the large majority of prisoners in the camp. Life in Auschwitz included living in undesirable conditions, and being kept on a very strict schedule day in, day out.

A large proportion of stories and poems that describe the truth of Auschwitz concentration camp are written by the survivors who gets out of there. The author - Tadeusz Borowski, who have been through the deadly gas situation and he used his pen to telling people what truly happened in Auschwitz. Just like what he mentioned in the short story, “There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.”, he is the one record and make known to the public to remain everyone, that wars never bring us peace, no matter what kind of reasons that careerists are using to cover their ambition and evilness.