Jewish Targeting

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

Auschwitz was one of the most well-known concentration camps, a camp which held many prisoners who were often judged by their looks, race, and religion and not by their actions. In concentration camps people were forced to work and not given basic human rights. Auschwitz was by far the largest concentration camp during World War Two. It quickly gained a reputation for torture and harsh treatment of the prisoners. Auschwitz has a history that can give a person the chills from the horror of the mistreatment of prisoners.

To begin, Auschwitz was one of the major concentration camps run by the Nazi’s the Holocaust. At Auschwitz, the Nazi’s were able to murder over a million Jews in gas chambers without detection for most of the Holocaust. Thus, I am going to tell the stories of those who survived Auschwitz in order to provide remembrance and to highlight what I am learning in class. This is due to the fact that many people do not realize that what happened at Auschwitz was horrific. For example, people saw their family die right in front of them, people were beaten for no apparent reason, and people were striped of their identity. Also, by telling the stories of the survivors I am allowing the reader to remember that the Holocaust affected so many people and

Hatred, a destructive and malicious emotion, leads human to do unexpected and abhorrent things. This emotion was once displayed on helpless people in the most cruel and merciless way. Based on a hatred so thirsty for slaughter, Auschwitz was created and established to become the largest concentration camp consisting of several subcamps and three specific camps: a prison camp, a death camp, and a slave labor camp. Auschwitz, located in Southern Poland, operated from 1940 to 1945. An overwhelming amount of hatred severely impacted several people in this one location. Auschwitz acted as a perpetrator by running the largest German Nazi concentration and death camp, by capturing large quantities of Jewish communities from their homes, and by assigning

Initially, Auschwitz was a very concise and logical idea. The beginning is a very misunderstood one, as it was supposed to be a very simple and uncomplicated holding camp for Polish political prisoners of war. The location for Auschwitz was chosen because it was on the outskirts of Poland, out of view from civilians as shown here “Nazi officials thought that an old Polish military camp on the outskirts of the town would provide a good foundation…”(Deem 7) this quote clearly explains how the nazi’s thought that the

The Holocaust was one of the most horrific time periods where unthinkable and unimaginable crimes were committed against Jews, Gypsies and other racial groups. No one could have ever imagined the numbers of innocent people Hitler massacred. Until liberation millions of Jews were sent to death and concentration camps, such as Auschwitz. With tons of severe and cruel ways of extermination they were stuck in this horrible place. Because of the horrific living conditions, forced labor, mass murdering, and other inhumane activities, Auschwitz was the most feared, and the largest Nazi Death Camp of World War 2.

Hitler’s infamous concentration camp Auschwitz became well known as one of the most brutal camps of the Holocaust. However, it was more than just an excruciating death center. It was a place where German SS and Nazi officers broke prisoners mentally and physically. Millions of innocent lives came to an end there. Considered one of the worst concentration camps ever, Auschwitz was known for its methodical organization, horrendous treatment of prisoners, and an atrocious death toll.

Ultimately, Auschwitz was the most horrid of all the Nazi concentration camps used to imprison minorities during World War II. The conditions in which prisoners were kept in were inhumane and the majority of people were aware of this, but with the tyrannical rule the Nazi political party held, many people did not want to oppose otherwise. This is a subject matter that should not be forgotten and be used instead as a lesson for future

Auschwitz was a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. It is the most known horrific thing to ever exist during that time. Little did the people know entering the camp everything they valued would be taken away in a heart beat. Built by the Nazis as both a concentration and a death cam, Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi’s camps, the most diverse and intricate camp of all, and the main center of death of Jews during the Holocaust.

Auschwitz was the worst, and most well known concentration camp involved within WWII. This camp held about 25% of all prisoners in the camp “community”. Auschwitz was made up of many sub camps including its most well known one, Birkenau. The concentration camps were the pinnacle of terror for anyone to be captured. How they worked, why they were built, and the impact they had are all to come.

“Auschwitz was actually three camps in one: a prison camp, an extermination camp, and a slave-labor camp. It was the most lethal of the Nazi extermination camps and came to represent the “final solution,” or the extermination of the Jews.Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz”(Britannica School “Auschwitz”). Not only did Jews die from getting gassed or burned, they suffered from hunger and little to no shelter. This meant they were exposed to all the sickness and cold weather. “Those at the camps were subjected to harsh conditions. There was inadequate shelter and sanitation, and the prisoners were given little food and were overworked. Those who could no longer work faced transport back to Birkenau for gassing”(Britannica School

Auschwitz I the principal camp, was the primary camp built up close Oswiecim. Development started in April 1940 in an abandoned Polish army barracks in a suburb of the city. Like most German concentration imprisonments, Auschwitz I was developed for three purposes: to detain genuine and perceived enemies of the Nazi administration and the German occupation experts in Poland for an uncertain timeframe. To give a supply of constrained workers for organization in SS-possessed development related ventures (and, later, armaments and other war-related creation). To fill in as a site to murder little, directed gatherings of the populace whose demise was dictated by the SS and police experts to be basic to the security of Nazi Germany. At Auschwitz

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.

Murder sadness and despair are some of the synonyms one thinks of when the camp Auschwitz is spoken about. Millions of screaming voices never to be silenced as each and every soul stays to haunt the terrible site. No matter who it was the Germans came and killed to further pursue the goal at task. If seen as a threat, then eventually people from that group would be killed too. Yet the thing everyone should get out of remembering the most horrific event in history is Never Forget. Auschwitz-Birkenau was built to fulfill Hitler’s goal of cleansing the Earth of non-perfect people.

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.