I really need help in my intro for my research paper on Auschwitz?!!?!?

Question

I dont know how i should start it off...can anyone please give me an idea of how?? Thanks...My english teacher assigned me a 5-7 page reasearch paper o a designated topic mine being Auschwitz.

Answer 1

Living in America, tragedy is something that we see from a distance, something that we observe, but rarely ever actually feel, or see for our selves. However, just about every American, knows the story of Auschwitz, and has seen the horrific and gruesome photographs. They have heard the story of a power hungry dictator that ruined the lives of so many people, and hurt so many races. They recognize the emaciated bodies, the shaved heads, and the stripped clothing that are so easily recognizable of the victims standing behind that metal gates, or peeking through the barbed wire fences. Auschwitz, as hard as it wanted to be forgotten, it never will be.

Answer 2

If you are writing it for a public school project, you have chosen the correct side. You will have a plethora of poorly researched empirical information, opinions, and agenda of every greenie kook on the planet to back up your thesis, which I assume should be "AGW is real, because all these people say it is and I want an A on this paper because I know the public school teachers are all envirocrats and will agree with me on this issue". A little long, but it should be essentially correct. At some point in your life I hope you meet an educator who helps you actually think for yourself.

Answer 3

I've done this with my kids. It works great. Get a piece of paper. Write down all the things that you know about what you are gonna say. Make it a list of things. Put at least 5 things down. Should be more if possible. 5 is kind of skimpy. Now. Go back over the list. Put it in some kind of order. Just number them where you want them. Put them in order like say past to present or present to past or important to least important etc. When you are done with that then you should be able to begin. If you chose past to present you could start off with: Back in (put date here), when ______________was the leader of _________, many things were not like they are today. Take it from there.

Then every time you need an idea, look at the sheet and you will get your next idea. I used to tell the kids that if they wrote a paragraph or 2 about each idea that they come up with then eventually they would end up with a report.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Auschwitz the most infamous of all Nazi concentration camps.
Located in southern Poland not far from the Czech border, it housed several million prisoners between its founding in June 1940 and its liberation in April 1945. The gas chambers were built in 1942 and operated almost constantly for three years. It was not a single camp but a huge complex of concentration, extermination and labor camps.
This is just one idea.

Answer 5

You could start with a general description: A border village in the North of Poland (Oswiecknicim)(Auschwitzch is the German name) ; it is night;cattle trains stop at a snow covered railroad yard. Human cattle tumbles out of the waggons and is driven towards an iron gate on top of which you read: "Arbeit macht Frei" (Work liberates you) by shouting SS guards.They then proceed to long rows of low barracks . Outside the camp loom eerie black pines. The fresh fallen snow produces an akward silence among which the only sounds are the crying of children and women.

If you want more details go to one of the www sites or watch Schindler's list from Spielberg.

By the way: the camp is now a museum complete with a Mc Donald. How do you like them little apples?

Answer 6

No Americans knew that Auschwitz existed. It was a well-guarded secret. When suffering goes undetected like it did there, it is difficult to believe the horrific scope of it all.

You could write it from the same perspective as if you discovered it for the first time. Americans were overwhelmed in utter disbelief that people could be treated with such inhumanity.

Answer 7

Depending on the direction of your paper, you could start with one of two things-
Find a picture of Auschwitz, and try to do a detailed description of what it might have felt like to be there...(cold rain, thick mud, etc.) or you can always use this great quote from Martin Niemoller
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
-Attributed to Pastor Martin Niemoller

Answer 8

Talk about Auschwitz in the present-day, and maybe a quote from one of the recent anniversaries. I think that would make a good introduction

Answer 9

I suggest reading "Night" by Elie Weisel. It is a short powerful book by a living survivor. Taking it from there should be no problem.

Answer 10

http://www.free-termpapers.com/tp/24/hsz182.shtml
Auschwitz - Nazi Concentration Camp Located thirty-seven miles west of Krakow, Auschwitz was the camp where Jewish people were killed and worked. This camp, out of all the rest tortured the most people. At the camp there was a place called the Black Wall, this was where the people were executed. In March of 1941, there was another camp that started to be built. This second camp was called Auschwitz II, or Birkinau. It was located 1.9 miles away from Auschwitz I. People that were chosen to come to these camps were expelled from their homes. Their houses were destroyed for the purpose of building Birkinau. Birkinau had nine sub-units. Electrically charged fences that lined their borders separated them from each other. In August 1942, the women's section at Auscwitz I was moved to Birkinau. Nine hundred and ninety-nine women from Ravensbruck camp and other women from different camps joined them also. Birkinau now had over 6,000 women prisoners being held. In the town Monowitz, another camp was being built. This camp was called Auschwitz III, or Buna-Monowitz. Other camps that were located close to Monowitz were moved to Buna-Monowitz. The population of Bikinau was the most densely populated out of all the camps. It also had the most cruel and bad conditions of all the camps in the complex. The prisoners at Birkinau mostly consisted of Jews, Poles, and Germans. There were a number of Gipsy and Czech Jew family camps located at Birkinau for a period of time also. In Birkinau, the gas chambers and the crematoria, where the bodies were burned operated at Auschwitz I. Birkinau and all the other sub-camps were mostly forced labour camps. The most recognised of the labour camps are Budy, Czechowitz, Glenwitz, Rajsko, and Furstenarube. The prisoners here were worked to the Point of death. Trains transported people to the camps, and violently forced them off the train. All of the people's property was left on the train also. They prisoners were sent into two different lines, one for women and the other for men. The lines moved into the place were a procedure called Selection took place. The ones who could work were not killed on this occasion, but the women, children, and others that couldn't work were gassed. The prisoners that were to work, had their clothes taken, heads shaved, got sterilised, and were given black and white striped clothes to wear. In the forced labour camps, the average lifetime was only a few months. Some of the prisoners that couldn't react or move became what was known as Muselmann. A dreaded part of camps was the Appell, or roll call. In this, prisoners were sent out into the cold night after a hard day of work, and lined up. Anyone that fell to the ground was shot or gassed. One more of all the bad work chores was the Sonderkommando. Doing this meant that you burned the bodies of the dead prisoners in the crematoria. Tattoos were given to the prisoners on their right arm as an easier way of registration. Not all of the earlier prisoners had this tattoo, but the registered number of prisoners was 405,000. The daily routine in the complex differed in each camp, but the basic routine was the same. They: woke at dawn, cleaned their areas, morning roll call was taken, they walked to the work site, worked for long hours, had to wait in lines for food, then walked back to their bunks, block inspection was done, and then evening roll call was taken. There were also people who got picked for medical experiments. The best known doctor at Auschwitz was Josef Mengele. His experiments were mostly done on twins and dwarfs. He did lots of things that had to do with seeing how ling it would take a person to die if you do this or that. He also did experiments that had to do with cutting off body parts and reattaching them to different parts of the body. By January 20th, 1944, the population of the Aushwitz complex had reached 80,839. Those number roses up and up as the months past and more prisoners came. The first gas chamber to be used was built in Auschwitz I. The gas that was used in the chambers was called Zyklon B. In Birkinau, the largest number of people that could be killed in the gas chambers was 6,000 people daily. The gas chambers looks just like shower rooms. The prisoners were told they needed to be cleaned before work, and were then killed in the stalls. On the borders of Auschwitz I and Birkinau, electrical fences were put up. Watchtowers and S.S. men lined the complex with automatic guns to be used in any escape situations. Canals also lined the border of Birkinau. Starting in March of 1942, trains arrived at Auschwitz-Birkinau daily, carrying Jews from Europe. The prisoner's anger and rebellion to the Nazis was always there, but only a few people decided to do anything though. In the most difficult times, 667 prisoners tried to escape. Only 270 of them made it, and the ones who got caught were executed. Jewish leaders wanted to have the allied powers bomb Auschwitz at one time. This never did happen though. A group of women at the camp destroyed one of the gas chambers in an uprise. The leaders of the uproar were found and executed on January 6th, 1945. Word Count: 907
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