Auschwitz II-Birkenau: The Horrible Events Of The Holocaust
THE STORY OF AUSCHWITZ
There were hundreds, if not thousands of death camps settled across Europe during World War II. But despite the word “death camps”, a term that is used to describe the horrible events of the Holocaust, the historic mass killing of around six million Jews or more. These were more of working camps, but still, out of all of those, only six of them were used specifically for actually working the Jews to death. Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, as well as Treblinka were quite large, but none of those five are as large or as infamous as the Auschwitz death camp. Through the beginning of the 1941 to around 1945, the camp has gone from 835 square feet of absolute horror to true historical suffering and terror that won’t, and shouldn’t, be forgotten. …show more content…
The camp itself was in fact the largest of it’s kind, all 835 square feet of glory for the Nazis. But it wasn’t just one camp all by itself. “It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original camp), Auschwitz II-Birkenau (a combination concentration/extermination camp) Auschwitz III-Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), along with 45 other satellite camps” (Wikipedia “Auschwitz Concentration Camp”).
The number of innocent lives taken from Jews during the Holocaust itself is absolutely astounding, going in at around 6 million lives ended during the space of World War II. As stated in James M. Deem’s “AUSCHWITZ: VOICES FROM THE DEATH CAMP”, “No one knows for certain the exact number killed there. Using various documents that survived the war, reports and even telegrams, to name a few, researchers calculated that at least 1,305,000 people were taken to the camp. ( 15).
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There were hundreds, if not thousands of death camps settled across Europe during World War II. But despite the word “death camps”, a term that is used to describe the horrible events of the Holocaust, the historic mass killing of around six million Jews or more. These were more of working camps, but still, out of all of those, only six of them were used specifically for actually working the Jews to death. Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, as well as Treblinka were quite large, but none of those five are as large or as infamous as the Auschwitz death camp. Through the beginning of the 1941 to around 1945, the camp has gone from 835 square feet of absolute horror to true historical suffering and terror that won’t, and shouldn’t, be forgotten. …show more content…
The camp itself was in fact the largest of it’s kind, all 835 square feet of glory for the Nazis. But it wasn’t just one camp all by itself. “It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original camp), Auschwitz II-Birkenau (a combination concentration/extermination camp) Auschwitz III-Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), along with 45 other satellite camps” (Wikipedia “Auschwitz Concentration Camp”).
The number of innocent lives taken from Jews during the Holocaust itself is absolutely astounding, going in at around 6 million lives ended during the space of World War II. As stated in James M. Deem’s “AUSCHWITZ: VOICES FROM THE DEATH CAMP”, “No one knows for certain the exact number killed there. Using various documents that survived the war, reports and even telegrams, to name a few, researchers calculated that at least 1,305,000 people were taken to the camp. ( 15).
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