Does anybody know where I can get info on the Auschwitz concentration camp?

Question

I need to find detailed information on how people lived while they were there, I also need some good websites that you might think can help, thanks for your help!

I need good info on this please recomend something!

already tried wikipedia

Answer 1

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Auschwitz concentration camp
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Auschwitz Concentration Camp1
UNESCO World Heritage Site
State Party Poland
Type Cultural
Criteria vi
Identification #31
Region2 Europe and North America
Inscription History
Formal Inscription: 1979
3rd WH Committee Session
WH link: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/31
1 Name as officially inscribed on the WH List
2 As classified officially by UNESCO

Auschwitz (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was the largest of the Nazi 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.
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.

The site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979.
http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/html/eng/start/index.php
Brief Description
The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest in the Third Reich. According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century.
Hope this helps M girl

Answer 2

http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/ - The official website of the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum

http://www.auschwitz.org.pl/html/eng/start/index.php - another website about a museum

http://www.remember.org/educate/intro.html - a "virtual tour" of Auschwitz

http://www.auschwitz.dk/ - one of the most comprehensive websites out there dedicated to the Holocaust, and especially Auschwitz itself

Answer 3

Start with a Google search--that'll give you all the on-line basics you need. Go to your local library and talk to one of the reference librarians--that'll give you a decent idea of the available printed sources.

Answer 4

There's tons of it out there. Just do a google search and it will give you dozens of websites that have information.

Answer 5

KKK will tell you it didn't exist - in fact it was a tourist resort for gold mouthed goldsteins

Answer 6

Start with the obvious:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz

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