During Adolf Hitler’s “Final Solution” in WWII‚ Auschwitz Birkenau was the site of mass killings of inferior races‚ and ultimately became the site of the largest mass murder in history. There were three major camps‚ Auschwitz I‚ II‚ and III‚ and each had a different purpose (“Auschwitz”‚ USHMM). Life for prisoners was very harsh in all of the camps‚ and life expectancy was short. Auschwitz Birkenau was abandoned as the Soviets closed in on the camps in January 1945. Once liberated‚ the true horror
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Auschwitz-Birkenau is located in Oswiecim‚ Poland. It was a concentration camp that was called “The Death Factory.” This complex was divided into three major camps: Auschwitz I‚ Auschwitz II‚ ‚ and Auschwitz III. Auschwitz became a huge source of slave labor locally and was used as an international clearing house. Of the 2.5 million people who were deported to Auschwitz‚ 405‚000 were given prisoner status and serial numbers. From those people‚ around 50 percent were jews and the other 50 percent
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We chose the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp as our topic because we found it to be very interesting from the start. Hearing the tales of the survivors and the brutal treatment they received‚ caught our attention. The people that were held in this camp suffered a great deal. They lost many loved ones‚ or were split up from one another‚ never to see each other again. The torturous events brought many countries together in an attempt to stop this horrific behavior. Most people couldn’t even
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Auschwitz-Birkenau was one of the largest Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp in Oswiecim ‚ Poland. Auschwitz was really three camps in one. The camp was used as a forced labor camp ‚ a prison camp ‚ and also functioned for an extended period as a killing center.Jews were already being dehumanized‚which is a typical stage of genocide. Between 1940-1945 there were 1‚095‚000 Jews deported to Auschwitz of whom 960‚000 were killed.One of the more well known victim of the holocaust is Anne
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Auschwitz-Birkenau Being a prisoner at Auschwitz almost certainly meant death. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest operating death camp‚ killing well over 4 million people in the end. Auschwitz was composed of three sub-camps‚ Auschwitz I‚ Auschwitz II (Birkenau) and Auschwitz III (Monowitz). Each camp had a purpose of its own. People were slaughtered‚ forced to work‚ starved‚ and forced to cremate their fellow prisoners. In the first camp‚ Auschwitz I‚ there were many gas chambers. This camp had
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Adolf Hitler‚ Auschwitz was one example of the Nazi Party’s cruelty forced onto people that were considered less valuable. During World WarⅡ‚ Auschwitz was one of the largest Nazi concentration camps. There were three large camps located in Auschwitz. The first camp located in Auschwitz was AuschwitzⅠ. Auschwitz Ⅰwas one of the main camps in Oświęcim(Holocaust Teacher Resource Center). In August of 1944‚ it held roughly about sixteen thousand prisoners(Holocaust Teacher Resource Center). The reason
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Everyone has been punished or belittled for what they believed in or where they come from. Auschwitz-Birkenau was a concentration camp where people who were Jews were held to work or die. This concentration camp the most deadliest out of all of them during World War II. Families were killed and some were released afterward. Those people are still tormented with the memories. Many people were placed after Adolf Hitler‚ an Austrian man‚ was put in charge of Germany and convinced many people that his
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“Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz; 90 percent of them were Jews” (“Auschwitz”). Concentration camps were large numbers of people; mostly Jews enduring forced labor and mass executions. One of the concentration camps during the Holocaust was Auschwitz. Auschwitz-Birkenau had a unique design‚ a horrible daily life for those in it‚ and is greatly remembered for what happened at these camps at the end of the war. Nazi Germany set up camps with a specific design that would help them
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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
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The majority of Auschwitz victims died in Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was the largest mass murdering concentration camp in history. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the most unwanted place to go even though prisoners didn’t know where they were going when they were being deported. Many victims died in Auschwitz-Birkenau and today that camp is a reminder of the horrible events that took place during the Holocaust. Heinrich Himmler was the person who ordered the construction of Auschwitz. “He also was the commander
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