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Auschwitz

Auschwitz. http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/holocaust/essaypics/auschwitz.jpg. By: Marissa St. Pierre. Background Info. Largest Germany concentration camp Main symbol of the Holocaust Located at Oswiemcim, Poland In operation from May 1940 till January 1945

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Auschwitz

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  1. Auschwitz http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/holocaust/essaypics/auschwitz.jpg By: Marissa St. Pierre

  2. Background Info • Largest Germany concentration camp • Main symbol of the Holocaust • Located at Oswiemcim, Poland • In operation from May 1940 till January 1945 • 1.1 million people were murdered there • Polish prisoners, Soviet POW, Sinti Roma, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals, and mainly Jews • Brought in by cattle-cars • Assigned a number, shaved heads, striped uniforms http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/holocaust/essaypics/auschwitz.jpg

  3. Rudolf Hoss • First commander of Auschwitz • Commanded in May 1940 • Commanded for 3 ½ years • Hoss tested and perfected the techniques of mass killing • Experimented with various method of gassing • Hoss introduced the poison gas Zyklon B • Zyklon B was said to work within three to fifteen minutes http://www.cwporter.com/hoessx.jpg

  4. Selection Process • Anyone could be up for selection: men, women, children or elderly • They were told that it was only a shower • The victims would change in an outer chamber and then would walk into the actual gas chamber • The gas chambers were disguised as showers with dummy shower heads • SS men would dump in the cyanide pellets through holes in the roof • More than 20,000 people could be gassed per day http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/holocaust/essaypics/auschwitz.jpg

  5. Escaping Attempts • About 700 prisoners tried to escape • Around 300 actually made it • Common punishments were death by starvation • If anyone did escape, the SS officers would pick 10 random people • Those ten random people would be killed for no reason

  6. Bibliography • "Auschwitz/concentration camps time line." Junior Scholastic 25 Apr. 2005: T-7(2). General OneFile. Web. 15 Dec. 2009. <http://find.galegroup.com/gps/start.do?prodId=IPS&userGroupName=s0940>. • “The Auschwitz album: story of a death factory: Hitler's 'final solution of the Jewish question' sent millions to extermination in this installation's gas chambers and crematoriums." USA Today [Magazine] Mar. 2006: 28+. General OneFile. Web. 15 Dec. 2009. <http://find.galegroup.com/gps/start.do?prodId=IPS&userGroupName=s0940>. • "Auschwitz: A History." Publishers Weekly 252.20 (2005): 47+. General OneFile. Web. 15 Dec. 2009. <http://find.galegroup.com/gps/start.do?prodId=IPS&userGroupName=s0940>. • Beschloss, Michael. "FDR's Auschwitz Secret: In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, historian Michael Beschloss reveals the untold story of how Franklin Roosevelt decided against bombing the Nazi death camp.(Excerpt)." Newsweek 14 Oct. 2002: 37. General OneFile. Web. 15 Dec. 2009. <http://find.galegroup.com/gps/start.do?prodId=IPS&userGroupName=s0940>.

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