Never in history has there been such a brutal, infamous camp. A camp that killed a vast majority of the Jewish religion. Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the deadliest camps in history ran by a German leader and his troops. The memory of Auschwitz is the most horrific in history. This death camp started in 1940 and operated until 1945, just until the end of WWII. So many innocent people and families were taken away from their home to and be exterminated for no reason. Approximately one thousand of the Poles and Jews homes were destroyed, having the people taken away to camp (KL Auschwitz Birkenau). Jews from almost every country in Europe were transported to Auschwitz by a long and uncomfortable train ride (Auschwitz United States ). Jews were …show more content…
This extermination camp was built and ready to be opened in 1940 by the Germans in the suburbs of Oswiecim. The Nazis had been building this camp since the early 1930s before their opening in 1940 (KL Auschwitz-Birkenau). Of the three Auschwitz camps and of any death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest concentration camp created as a detention center by the Nazi Regime (Auschwitz United States ). The commander of Auschwitz was Rudolf Hob, who was sentenced to death and executed in 1947 when Auschwitz was no longer running (Auschwitz …show more content…
Thousands of these Germans had been transferred to Auschwitz from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp (Auschwitz United States). A group of selected guards/protection squad was sent to be in charge of the Auschwitz prisoners and make them do forced labor. This group of select guards was called “Schutzstaffel”, also known as the “SS”. After the long and harsh years of the “SS” torturing and murdering Jews, the Soviet Army came to liberate Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. The Soviet troops who entered Auschwitz freed the survivors and shut down this brutal camp (Auschwitz
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.).
Although it was not the only concentration camp it was a place where they did experiments with a lot of the prisoners. For example they tried out medication to see the reactions, to see if salt water was drinkable. They also used gas chambers which they crowded as many inmates as they could fit in there tricking them they were going to be free as soon as they took a shower, but what it really did was intoxicate them with Zyklon-B and they died. Afterward there was not many to speak of what had happened so the rest really believed that they were going to become free. So many orders from a solder at one point a man jumped onto the electric fence to take away his life instead letting the solder humiliate him. When it had started to know what was happening in the camps they stopped it immediately the US liberated the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945 . They sent some death trains, Dachau had 141 trains that held 3,000 dead
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.
My camp is Auschwitz - Birkenau one of the largest concentration camps where Jews were held captured. Inside the camp were four gas chambers. Each gas chamber used Zyklon B gas. Most people brought to this camp were Jews. Before entering the chamber they were ordered to undress. Once they finished the Nazis locked the doors and dropped in the gas. Also, when they died they burned the Jews. The bones were disintegrated and their ashes were spread out on the fields.
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
One point two five million people killed, worked to death, then sent up in flames. One point two five million people that is the number of people the concentration camp Auschwitz killed. Auschwitz, the most vile of the concentration camps in Europe, was built in 1940. Its design was such that it was the home of the most deaths and worst medical experiments out of the other concentration camps. The focus on Auschwitz pertaining to its structure and design, its mortality rate, and the horrific medical experiments performed by Doctor Josef Mengele all combined to make Auschwitz the hell on Earth that it was.
The Holocaust includes many horrific events such as killing 5 million jews and 4 million others. Some notable horrors during the Holocaust were the concentration camps, torture, starvation, and death marches. The concentration camps were most likely the worst part. Not only did victims live in constant fear of what could happen, it was very easy for them to starve to death or get sick and die. The death marches is where the Nazis would force the entire concentration camp to march to another concentration camp while half starved and practically dead.
A group of Sonderkommando prisoners began formulating a plan for escape. The Sonderkommando (German for “Special Unit”) were Jews in a camp that were forced under threat of death to dispose of the bodies killed in the gas chambers. The Sonderkommandos were treated better than most prisoners and had many special privileges because they needed to be in good shape for the work they did. The SS also considered them to know too much about the horrors going on and routinely gassed the entire unit every few months. Eventually a plan was made and the Sonderkommandos attacked and killed 11 SS officers and seized the camp armory. The uprising was soon discovered and the inmates had to run. About half of the original prisoners made it out of the camp but most were killed by the surrounding minefield or recaptured by SS patrols. Of 600 prisoners, 58 are known to have survived the
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
One year after the camp had begun it soon built a reputation for torture and death (Auschwitz-Birkenau- “The). Auschwitz was made for three main reasons: confine both real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime, provide people for labor in construction-related enterprises, and serve a place to kill people whose life was determined by the Schutzstaffel, also known as the SS (Holocaust). A man named Adolf Hitler was determined to kill everyone who he believed were not fit for survival in Nazi Germany. In order to meet his beliefs, he turned the concentration camps into places solely for killing Jews as a “final solution”; he called the camps death camps
The SS were in charge of the various gas chambers while the majority of the work was done by the mostly Jewish prisoners known as Sonderkommandos. Their responsibilities included getting victims to the gas chambers and removing, looting and cremating the corpses. Slide 8: The Auschwitz Concentration Camp received their prisoners primarily from the ghettos via railways. The Nazi regime used rail transport as one method to forcibly rearrange the ethnic composition and if the distance was short by truck or foot. Birkenau received mostly Jews while Auschwitz I and Monowitz received prisoners that were usually non-Jewish.
They made the prisoners walk in what was called “Death marches”. In Death marches around 60,000 Jews had to walk and keep walking like in a parade and the Nazis would stand at random spots in the camps and free shoot at all the prisoners. “Those who fell behind or were too slow or sick were shot, even women holding children” (Wood 456). It was an estimated number of around 100,000 Jews died on these death marches alone. At the end of World War 2, millions had died while in the concentration camps. Auschwitz alone was responsible for 1.5 million to 3 million deaths. On January 27, 1945, the Nazi Concentration Camp, Auschwitz, was liberated by the Soviets. This was a miracle to everybody. But between the years or 1933 and 1945 more than 10 million men, ladies and kids were dead. Once liberated, the United States of America troopers were afraid and afraid by what they saw and practiced. Any captive that was left behind alive were only too so much gone or to sick, discouraged, or disoriented to even understand that they'd been
Using this, he was able to build quite a few extermination camps. Auschwitz-Birkenau being the largest one formed. Another name used was Auschwitz II. It was established during the Spring of 1942 in Upper Silesia, a province of Poland (Berenbaum). Auschwitz alone was responsible for over two million deaths during the process resembling a large-scale industrial operation.
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
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