Concentration Camps
Entrance gates at Auschwitz: " Work makes one free"
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the concentration camp in which the majority of the European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. It was also Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp facility, located near the provincial Polish town of Oshwiecim in Galacia, and was established by order of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler on 27 April 1940. Between May 14 and July 8,1944, 437,402 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 148 trains, the largest number of people deported at one time. By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews by using Zyklon-B became a daily routine. All nationalities died in the gas chambers, not just European Jews. Some estimate as many as 3 million people were killed by gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning by the time Auschwitz closed. Most children were killed upon arrival at Auschwitz, and if a mother gave birth at the camp, the child was usually killed right after birth.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the concentration camp in which the majority of the European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. It was also Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp facility, located near the provincial Polish town of Oshwiecim in Galacia, and was established by order of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler on 27 April 1940. Between May 14 and July 8,1944, 437,402 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 148 trains, the largest number of people deported at one time. By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews by using Zyklon-B became a daily routine. All nationalities died in the gas chambers, not just European Jews. Some estimate as many as 3 million people were killed by gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning by the time Auschwitz closed. Most children were killed upon arrival at Auschwitz, and if a mother gave birth at the camp, the child was usually killed right after birth.
Buchenwald
Prisoners at Buchenwald
Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps within the German borders in 1937. It was located about five miles northwest of Weimar in east-central Germany. Buchenwald originally opened just for men; women became part of the Buchenwald camp system in late 1943 or early 1944. The number of prisoners in Buchenwald must only be estimated because camp authorities never kept record of prisoners.
Warsaw
The city of Warsaw is the capital of Poland. Before the war the city was a major site of Jewish life and culture in Poland. The Warsaw Jewish community was the largest in Poland and Europe, and was the second largest in the world only to New York City.
"Even before the war, the camp system expanded with the construction of the major camps of Sachsenhausen (1936); Buchenwald, near Weimar (1937); Flossenburg and Mauthausen (1938); the women's concentration camp Ravensbruck (1939); Auschwitz (1940); which would later also serve as a killing center; and Natzweiler in Alsace (1941). As the need for prisoner labor increased, especially after the beginning of World War II, the SS authorities in these major camps established satellite camps." -http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007387
Warsaw
The city of Warsaw is the capital of Poland. Before the war the city was a major site of Jewish life and culture in Poland. The Warsaw Jewish community was the largest in Poland and Europe, and was the second largest in the world only to New York City.
"Even before the war, the camp system expanded with the construction of the major camps of Sachsenhausen (1936); Buchenwald, near Weimar (1937); Flossenburg and Mauthausen (1938); the women's concentration camp Ravensbruck (1939); Auschwitz (1940); which would later also serve as a killing center; and Natzweiler in Alsace (1941). As the need for prisoner labor increased, especially after the beginning of World War II, the SS authorities in these major camps established satellite camps." -http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007387
Citations
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http://www.auschwitz.dk/auschwitz.htm
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005198
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005069
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http://www.auschwitz.dk/auschwitz.htm
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005198
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005069