Transcript Auschwitz - 5th6thEnglish9

By, Breann westfall,Haley Edens,Cassie
lester,Maria Sena
Auschwitz:
 The concentration camp at Auschwitz had
a total camp area of 40 sq kilometers.
 The Nazis fit approximately 800 to 1,000
people in each barrack
 The camp was divided into three sections:
Auschwitz 1, Auschwitz 2 and Auschwitz
3.
Auschwitz
 Auschwitz was a concentration camp for the
Jews. The Jews were held there because the
Germans thought the Jews were “inferior”
which meant that they were an alien threat to
the so-called German racial community.
 To watch over and monitor the Jews, the
Germans and their collaborators created
ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor
camps during the war years.
Where it started
 The German concentration camp and later called
Auschwitz was established on May 20,1940
 People started to get deported to this camp in 1942
 As years went by more and more Jews came to this
camp the Germans started to add different things as
years went by.
 What the Germans added to this camp when years have
gone by was:
 They started to add 2 provisional gas chambers to
suffocate the Jews.
 Then they also came up with the idea to build a furnace to
burn the corpses.
 A couple of years later they built a building called
Crematorium that contained the gas chambers and the
furnaces to kill the Jews.
 There ended up being 5 of these gas chambers and furnaces
in the Crematorium building to kill the Jews.
Auschwitz
 The camp was occupied from 1933-1960
 From 1933-1938 the prisoners were mainly German
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nationals detained for political reasons
In 1938- after a lot of Jews were added, the camp was
used for all sorts of Jews from every nation
From 1945-1948 the camp was used as a prison for SS
officers awaiting trial.
After 1948 the German population were expelled form
Czechoslovakia.
In 1960, the camp was beginning to end.
How did it end?
 The SS tried to destroy the evidence of the gassings,
and most of the prisoners still at Auschwitz were sent
on a forced march westwards to Gross-Rosen in the
depths of winter. Conditions were appalling, and the
march is often referred to as a death march.
 The camp was liberated by the Soviet Army on 27
January 1945. They were greeted by about 7,500
prisoners who had been left behind.
In the end
 More than 15,000 died during the death marches from
Auschwitz. On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army
entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000
remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. It
is estimated that at minimum 1.3 million people were
deported to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945; of
these, at least 1.1 million were murdered