The extermination camp was located in Birkenau, also known as Auschwitz II. However, in the other camps that made up the Auschwitz group or complex, prisoners were worked to death on inadequate rations.
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Auschwitz was a cluster of camps. Some were slave labor camps with slaves from many different backgrounds worked, and where many were worked to death. Auschwitz II Birkenau was a death camp, devoted almost entirely to the slaughter of Jews.
The German occupiers set-up labour, concentration and death camps in occupied Poland. The Nazi created the death camps of Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau), Chełmno, Bełżec, Majdanek, Sobibór and Treblinka. The Nazi German also created many concentration camps such as Auschwitz I.
Dachau and Auschwitz
Chelmno and Belzec came into operation as an extermination camp a few months before Auschwitz II.
Hana Brady went to the camps Terezin and Auschwitz, which were both concentration camps (death camps).
Auschwitz-Birkenau (the Auschwitz group of camps).
what wer some events that went on in the death camps in auschwitz? what wer some events that went on in the death camps in auschwitz?
Auschwitz was a cluster of camps. Some were slave labor camps with slaves from many different backgrounds worked, and where many were worked to death. Auschwitz II Birkenau was a death camp, devoted almost entirely to the slaughter of Jews.
The German occupiers set-up labour, concentration and death camps in occupied Poland. The Nazi created the death camps of Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau), Chełmno, Bełżec, Majdanek, Sobibór and Treblinka. The Nazi German also created many concentration camps such as Auschwitz I.
Dachau and Auschwitz
Auschwitz and Majdanek.
Chelmno and Belzec came into operation as an extermination camp a few months before Auschwitz II.
Hana Brady went to the camps Terezin and Auschwitz, which were both concentration camps (death camps).
Auschwitz-Birkenau
How Auschwitz operated was it was in two camps. And in that one was working digging holes and other hard labor. Then the other was a death camp.
there was a total of three Auschwitz camps that were significant in World War II. Each Auschwitz had a different purpose. Auschwitz I was created to incarcerate prisoners at forced labor. Auschwitz II was built as the Execution or Death Camp, holding more Gas Chambers than any of the three Auschwitz camps. Auschwitz III was a Labor Education Camp for non-Jewish prisoners who were perceived to have violated German-imposed labor discipline.
The death camps were located in Poland and Germany.