Facts About The Auschwitz

85 years ago, over a 12 year period, nearly six million Jews were killed in a genocide called The Holocaust. The Holocaust was led by the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler was their leader. The mass murders took place at concentration camps throughout Europe. The majority of concentration camps resided in Poland and Germany. Many people believe there were only a few concentration camps. “However, researchers found that the Nazis had actually established 20,000 camps between 1933 and 1945” (“How Many Camps,” n.d.). In this paper I will be discussing the largest concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoners were provided rations of food ("Auschwitz-Birkenau: Living Conditions, Labor and Executions"). Jews were given three meals every day; one in the morning, noon and at night ("Auschwitz-Birkenau: Living Conditions, Labor and Executions"). Prisoners who did little work received 1,300 calories and those who did handfuls received 1,700 calories of what was served ("Auschwitz-Birkenau: Living Conditions, Labor and Executions"). They worked tediously for ten or more hours daily. If not at work, their time was prioritized in roll call assemblies, getting in line for food or removing dirt/pests from their own clothing ("Auschwitz-Birkenau: Living Conditions, Labor and

This site has many different facts about the Holocaust and the questions that were asked about it. The site has topic titled: Jews and Judaism, question about the Holocaust, how the Holocaust took place, The Nazis, the Holocaust and Muslims, Jews, Muslims and Christians, and The Holocaust Denial. Anti-Semitism is a synonym for the hatred of Jews and anti-Semitic means anti-Jewish. The “Final Solution” refers to the German’s plan to murder all of the Jews in Europe. This term was Used at the Wannsee Conference, which was held in Berlin Germany January 20, 1942, which German officials debated its implementation. The German Nazis used this term, the “Final Solution”, to hide the plan that the Germans were to kill all the Jews in Europe. The Germans

In 1940 Auschwitz was established in the suburbs of Oswiecim. Oswiecim is a Polish city that was annexed to the Third Reich by the Nazis. Auschwitz was established because there were too many Polish people in the local prisons. In 1942 Auschwitz became a death camp and it was the largest known. (http://auschwitz.org/, n.d.) The camp was expanded throughout its existence, this resulted in Auschwitz consisting of three camps. The three camps were Main Camp, Birkenau, and Monowitz. Main Camp was known as Auschwitz I, Birkenau was known as Auschwitz II, and Monowitz was known as Auschwitz III. (Preisler, n.d.) Auschwitz was liberated in 1945. “Historians and analysts estimate the number of people murdered at Auschwitz somewhere between 2.1 million

Germans crushed the revolt and killed almost all of the prisoners involved in the protest.

1. Nazi Germany established about 20,000 camps to imprison its prisoners, essentially being used as mass murder.

Nestled into the serene Polish countryside, you can find the small town of Oświęcim. No one would never expect that short drive out of town would bring you face to face with the aging remnants of the most horrific, comprehensive act of human evil committed in the duration that our species has existed in civilization – Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. This camp was the crown jewel of a depraved, sickening system designed to extinguish and erase entire ethnic and religious group from existence and allow the killers to wash their hands of these ‘undesirables’ - the Jews, the Gypsies, the Poles, the disabled, and anyone else who failed to complement Hitler’s National Socialist Party’s twisted fantasy of a ‘racially pure’ state. Here is where

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

Throughout time you may hear of a this place a place where some of the most unspeakable events occurred, some argue Ausccwitz is the worst place ever, some may even refer to it as hell on earth. In the book The boy was the striped pajamas it gives us a glimpse of how the main character had to leave his home and go live right next to Auschwitz. Throughout the book we see and get to imagine how gruesome and horrible living conditions were at the camp during that time. Although I personally feel like everytime the holocaust is brought it is almost inevitable to not mention Auschwitz being that the camp did play a huge part in what they were trying to accomplish at the time. Having said that I claimed to believe that there really isn’t much that we don’t know about the camp, but while i’ve conducted some research in the past recent days i have came across some interesting facts that I did not know or have never heard of.

The words inscribed above the Auschwitz concentration camp read; "Arbeit Macht Frei,” meaning, “work brings freedom.” These deceiving words gave unsuspecting prisoners hope that they could get out of the most destructive concentration camp during the entire Holocaust. This concentration camp would kill over one million people. Auschwitz will be fully analyzed, starting with the early stages of Auschwitz, then the Jews and the horrors of Auschwitz, and finally the final days of Auschwitz. The events that took place at Auschwitz concentration camp were horrifying and led to the death of millions.

     The Holocaust is one of the most horrifying crimes against humanity. "Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme." (Bauer, 58) One of his main methods of exterminating these ‘undesirables' was through the use of concentration and death camps. In January of 1941, Adolf Hitler and his top officials decided to make their 'final solution' a reality. Their goal was to eliminate the Jews and the ‘unpure' from the entire population. Auschwitz was the largest

Auschwitz is one of the most famous concentration camps in history. It’s located 31m (50 km) west of Krakow Poland. This awful camp was opened in 1940, and originally was a prison for Polish criminals, and prisoners of war. In 1945 it became a sprawling complex. Historians estimated 1.1-1.6 million died. 960,000 or 90% were Jews, 74,000 were non Jews, 21,000 were Gypsies, 15,000 were Soviets, and 10,000 were Czechs, French, Germans, Austrians, or Yugoslavs. Over 200,000 perished children. Hundred thousand died of starvation, disease, individual violence, and perished Nazi execution chambers ( designed for mass murders). Nazi carry extermination plan was to deport victims to concentration

Although Auschwitz was very creepy, it has interesting location, establishment, and size. To begin, Auschwitz was the largest, most deadly Nazi death camp. Auschwitz is located in a Polish town Oswiecim. What many people don’t know is that Auschwitz was actually three camps in one, a death camp, a labor camp, and a concentration camp. SS Heinrich Himmler ordered Auschwitz in April of 1940. The camp actually opened in June of 1940. Around this time, the population was about 10,900 people. Also, Birkenau was established in 1941. Birkenau got its name because of the Birch trees. An estimated 1,250,000 people died in Birkenau, mostly in the gas chambers. Finally, Auschwitz !!! was a slave labor camp. I.G. Farben and Daimler Benz built factories

The prisoners held in the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp went through an abundance of physical challenges, pain and suffering that no human being should ever have to endure. What happened during the three years and four months that the camp was running has brought countries together to realize just how unjust the entire Holocaust was to minorities. SS officers would greet the Jews and Polish political prisoners, which included elderly and children, by numbering them and sorting them for the torture they were yet to go through. Prisoners either followed their orders or rebelled in hopes of it making a difference. Families were torn apart, friendships were seemingly broken, and soon they were

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