Auschwitz

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In Word War II there was many concentration camps. but out of all the camps there is one name everybody can remember Auschwitz.

Auschwitz was the largest of all the camps; which included Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Auschwitz III also known as Buna or Monowitz.

Auschwitz I is where all the prisoners first arrived and the selection took place. Most people didn’t make it through selection. The selection split the prisoners into two groups one group was mostly men who were able to work who was sent to work camps. The other group was women, children, infants, the elderly, the sick, and the disabled these people was deemed as not useful and was sent to straight to the gas chambers.

Auschwitz II- Birkenau is the second camp. Most deaths took place in Birkenau. This camp had a large gas chamber and crematorium.

Auschwitz III also known as Buna or Monowitz was the third camp. This cam was considered to have the strongest prisoners. This camp was mostly known as a work camp. Instead of killing the prisoners off quickly they forced them to work.

In 1944 and 1945 when Allies began to come and liberate camps the SS Officers began bombing and blowing up gas chambers and crematoriums to hide the evidence of them killing the prisoners. As the Allies got closer the officers began killing the prisoners in mass numbers. When the officers realized that the Allies were closing in on them, they got all the prisoners together and sent them on a death march to a camp in Germany which was miles away. Most died in these marches.

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Author- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Title- Auschwitz
Title of web page-  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
URL-http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189
Date 15 January 2013