plaese tell me something about auschwitz the death camp? I have until march 14. Help!?

Question

I am doing a power point about auschwitz! tell me every thing you KNOW!

Answer 1

All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. It was established by the Nazis in the suburbs of the city of Oswiecim which, like other parts of Poland, was occupied by the Germans during the Second World War.

The name of the city of Oswiecim was changed to Auschwitz, which became the name of the camp as well. June 14, 1940, when the first transport of Polish political prisoner deportees arrived in Auschwitz, is regarded as the date when it began to function.

Over the following years, the camp was expanded and consisted of three main parts: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz. It also had over 40 sub-camps. At first, Poles were imprisoned and died in the camp. Afterwards, Soviet prisoners of war, Gypsies, and prisoners of other nationalities were also incarcerated there. Beginning in 1942, the camp became the site of the greatest mass murder in the history of humanity, which was committed against the European Jews as part of Hitler's plan for the complete destruction of that people.

The majority of the Jewish men, women and children deported to Auschwitz were sent to their deaths in the Birkenau gas chambers immediately after arrival. At the end of the war, in an effort to remove the traces of the crimes they had committed, the SS began dismantling and razing the gas chambers, crematoria, and other buildings, as well as burning documents.

Prisoners capable of marching were evacuated into the depths of the Reich. Those who remained behind in the camp were liberated by Red Army soldiers on January 27, 1945.

A July 2, 1947 act of the Polish parliament established the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the grounds of the two extant parts of the camp, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau.


atp

Answer 2

Well, I'm sure there are great books on the subject at your local bookstore or library.

But okay. I believe Auschwitz, (along with it's double), were the biggest death camps of the Holocaust, it's where the most people died / were murdered. I know that it, along with other camps like Trablinka (sp) were actual death camps, designed to do nothing but kill. Many others died / were murdered in concentration camps like Buchenwald (sp). But Auschwitz was solely designed to kill, it was not a prison camp in any way for anyone. No one was ever supposed to get out alive.

Answer 3

Aushwitz was the largest of the Nazi German concentration camps. Located in southern Poland, it took its name from the nearby town of Oświęcim (Auschwitz in German), situated about 50 kilometers west of Kraków and 286 kilometers from Warsaw. Following the Nazi occupation of Poland in September 1939, Oświęcim was incorporated into Germany and renamed Auschwitz.

The camp complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz I, the administrative center; Auschwitz II (Birkenau), an extermination camp or Vernichtungslager; and Auschwitz III (Monowitz), a work camp. There were also around 40 satellite camps, some of them tens of kilometers from the main camps, with prisoner populations ranging from several dozen to several thousand. [1]

An unknown, but very large, number of people were killed at Auschwitz. The camp commandant, Rudolf Höss, testifed at the Nuremberg Trials that three million had died there. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum revised this figure in 1990, and new calculations now place the figure at 1.1–1.6 million, [2][3] about 90 percent of them Jews from almost every country in Europe. [4] Methods of killing people at Auschwitz included, primarily, gassing with Zyklon-B; systematic starvation, lack of disease prevention, individual executions and so-called medical experiments accounted for the rest.



....
and if you still need to know more
....

Beginning in 1940, Nazi Germany built several concentration camps and an extermination camp in the area, which at the time was under German occupation. The Auschwitz camps were a major element in the perpetration of the Holocaust; at least 1.1 million people were killed there, of whom over 90% were Jews.

The three main camps were:

Auschwitz I, the original concentration camp which served as the administrative center for the whole complex, and was the site of the deaths of roughly 70,000 people, mostly Poles and Soviet prisoners of war.
Auschwitz II (Birkenau), an extermination camp, where at least 1.1 million Jews, 75,000 Polish people, and some 19,000 Roma (Gypsies) were killed.
Auschwitz III (Monowitz), which served as a labor camp for the Buna-Werke factory of the I.G. Farben concern.
See list of subcamps of Auschwitz for others.

Like all Nazi concentration camps, the Auschwitz camps were operated by Heinrich Himmler's SS. The commandants of the camp were the SS-Obersturmbannführers Rudolf Höß (often written "Hoess") until the summer of 1943, and later Arthur Liebehenschel and Richard Baer. Höß provided a detailed description of the camp's workings during his interrogations after the war and also in his autobiography. He was hanged in 1947 in front of the entrance to the crematorium of Auschwitz I. Command of the women's camp, which was separated from the men's area by the incoming railway line was exercised in turn by Johanna Langefeld, Maria Mandel, and Elisabeth Volkenrath.



....
and if you still need to know more, click on the link below! hope i helped! :)

Answer 4

People died there. Jews, Gypsies, gays, and traitors all died there. They killed them when they went in to take a shower they turned on poison gas instead of water. It was "liberated" by Soviet forces in early 1945. They were all transported to Siberia b/c Stalin (dictator of the Soviet Union) hated them too. It was the largest concentration camp in Germany. It was part of the Holocaust.

Answer 5

Tons of jews were killed here. Had part in the Haulocaust, and Hitler ran it as a death camp, it was liberated.

Answer 6

The attached links should help you a great deal. It contains information in photos, timelines, archives, personal stories, maps, etc...
I think this is a very interesting topic and a great opportunity to learn from our past. Good luck!

Answer 7

it was a death camp for the jews... it was i belive in germeny. if you were sent there it meant they were palnning on killing you. There was hope for you. Thats all i know...