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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

Of all of the death camps built by the Nazis during World War II, none was larger or more destructive than the terrifying Auschwitz camp. Auschwitz was built by the Nazis in 1940, in Oswiecim, Poland, and was composed of three main parts. Auschwitz I was built in June 1940 and was intended to hold and kill Polish political prisoners. Auschwitz II-Birkenau, which opened October 1941, was larger and could contain over 100,000 inmates. Auschwitz III-Monowitz provided slave labor for a plant close by. In addition, there were many sub-camps. The most important camp at Auschwitz designed for the extermination of many people was Birkenau; numerous gas chambers and crematoria were established there, mainly to murder and incinerate Jews as

He marked the passage into the camp with promise “Arbeit Macht Frei”. Soon after the commandant of Auschwitz had been given a big construction budget of two millions of marks to adapt the camp, nevertheless materials for this construction was impossible to find. In the summer of 1940 the newly established construction office in the camp, led by August Schlachter and Walther Urbancyk reported that without materials constructions of the new buildings was impossible. Later, the SS had identified the concentration camp as a central instrument to actualize its programs in Upper Silesia. Originally a camp for prisoners that, “because of its industrial value, could not be deported and a transit camp for those arrested who where then shipped west to perform slave labor.” (Dwork and Jan van Pelt 171) Auschwitz was put on the map of the SS financial empire by Pohl. He ordered Höss to double the capacity of prisoners. Auschwitz was going to be converted into a production site (Dwork and Jan van Pelt 168-71). Auschwitz was converted in an industry of building materials; this new task of Auschwitz created the first sub camp of many. The expansion of Auschwitz I was the first brick to complete the construction of a massive concentration camp. The industry of building materials was a great financial success for the SS; however, conditions in the camp did not improve even though the labor of the inmates became important to

From July 1942 through November 1943, the Germans killed between 870,000 and 925,000 Jews at the killing center. Treblinka I, the forced-labor camp, continued operations until late July 1944. While the killing center was in operation, some of the arriving Jews were selected and transferred to Treblinka I, while Jews too weak to work at Treblinka I were periodically sent to Treblinka II to be killed. During late July 1944, with Soviet troops moving into the area, the camp authorities and the Trawniki-trained guards shot the remaining Jewish prisoners, between 300 and 700, and hastily dismantled and evacuated the camp. Soviet troops overran the site of both labor camp and killing center during the last week of July

The second worst concentration camp in WWII Treblinka. “Nazi occupied General Government of Poland and the zone was occupied by the Russians from September 1939 until the German invasion of Russia in June 1941”. Over 800,000 Jewish people killed here, Plus 850,000 men, women, and children murdered here so about 1,650,000 people murdered. (“Samuel Willenberg, the last of only 67 survivors of the Treblinka extermination camp.” )

German authorities chose an area near the villages of Treblinka and Malkinia to build the labor camp of Treblinka. Malkinia was located on the main Warsaw-Bialystok rail line which was about fifty miles northeast of Warsaw. In November of 1941 Treblinka was established as a forced labor camp for Jews. It also served as a Labor-Education camp for non-Jewish Poles that were thought to have violated labor discipline. In July of 1942 authorities finished the construction of the killing center. The killing center was called Treblinka II and it was about one mile from the labor camp near the Polish village of Wólka Okrąglik along the Małkinia-Siedlce rail line (“Treblinka”).

     Another camp called Treblinka was a pure killing center. This death camp opened in 1942, making it one of the last death camps to open. The whole purpose of this place was to kill Jews. They did this with 13 carbon-monoxide chambers. The people were sent to the camp by trains, unloaded, and sent into changing rooms. They were forced to give up their clothes and put new ones on. They were sent to either so called "showers", or a mass grave where they were shot. The carbon-monoxide chambers were disguised as the "showers." As soon as the Jews were in, they locked the doors and started pouring gas into them. This was the way they killed the prisoners. The Nazis killed about 50,000 people per month, making it the most efficient concentration camps ever made. This made Treblinka a pure killing center.

On October 1,1941 a death camp in Poland called Majdanek was officially announced to be open to the Jews caught by the nazi police or sent from other camps.Majdanek death camp was made up of two gas chambers using Zyklon-B,144 barracks divided in five section for older people,children,and extermination.And 2.7 kilometers surrounded by an electrified wired fence and watchtowers.Construction on the camp was still going on in October 1941 with the arrival of 2,000 Soviet prisoners of the war.The SS also brought Jewish from the Lipowa Street camp located in Lublin to help construct Majdanek.

At Treblinka, the death was omnipresent. The camp was created in 1941 as one of the featured sites for Operation Reinhard, the German and Poland’s plan to murder more than 2 million Jews. The camp consisted of two locations; the first was a forced labor sight titled Treblinka I, the second was an extermination site called Treblinka II. In Treblinka II prisoners were lead to gas

The Dachau concentration camp was established March 22 1933,at an old WWI gunpowder factory.Dachau was one of the first camps to use SS soldiers.At first,Dachau was intended to befor only men.During the first year of Dachau,it was able to hold 4,800 prisoners.After being liberated,Dachau had 31,951 certified deaths.The total of prisoners to arrive at Dachau is 206,206.It was not a death camp for th genocide of the Jews,although there was Jewish prisoners there.

I chose the concentration camp Treblinka, it was established in November of 1941. With the support of the SS and Police Leader for District Warsaw in “Generalgouvernement”, SS and police authorities established a forced-labor camp for Jews (Treblinka). Later on it became Treblinka I. In addition to it being a labor camp, it also served as a “Labor Education Camp” for non-Jewish Poles, who the Germans believed to have violated labor discipline. Jewish and Polish prisoners were put into separate compounds of the camp, and deployed at forced labor. The killing center known as Treblinka II was completed in July of 1942, about a mile from the Treblinka I, and a rail spur was added that led from Treblinka I to Treblinka II. The Treblinka camp

Treblinka I was found officially on 15 November 1941, and the commandant was Theodor van Eupen. He ran the camp with several SS men and 100 guards.

In the spring of 1942 Treblinka a mass execution facility was operational. The camp was carefully selected to obscure from the nearest city. It was located in North-Eastern region of the Generalgouvernement near Malkinia Gora Poland. The area was within a heavy woodland not exposing the countless murders that had taken place. The camp was built by German construction firms out of available resources from the wood. Primarily, the workers building the death camp were Jews brought in trucks from local neighborhoods. A track was later constructed for the arrivals of deportees and the shipping of the Jews belongings. The camp's first commander was Dr. Irmfried Eberl but was relieved of his commission by Christian Wirth after an inspection of Treblinka. A massive break in the extermination process causing chaos so Christian Wirth extended his

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

By 1945, Germany had successfully built multiple killing facilities that were used to exterminate Jews and other prisoners of the German army. In the spring and summer of 1945, the second and largest addition to Auschwitz was completed. This addition was titled Birkenau or Auschwitz II, and consisted of four huge crematoria and gas chambers built for the extermination of prisoners. During this time of the war the German military had captured thousands of Jews and other prisoners, this resulted in Germany having to expand their killing facilities in order to accommodate the newly arrived prisoners. In the winter of 1942-1943 the German army experienced a defeat against the Soviets at Stalingrad, this loss resulted in the Germans putting more