What happened at Birkenau during the holocaust?

Answer 1

Many Jews and others were killed at this extermination camp. If one was not immediately killed one would have a very hard life as a slave laborer while trying to survive on a starvation diet designed to kill you within a few months.

Evil things, like killing Jews.

On arrival, the trainloads of Jews would be met by SS doctors on the ramp. Those who were fit for work were sent to the slave labour camps to the right. Those who were unfit for work (usually, visibly pregnant women, children under 15 and the elderly) were gassed as soon as practical after arrival. The fit and able-bodied were 'selected' for work.

Those who were "lucky" to survive the initial selection were then under constant threat of being chosen for medical experiments by the Nazi Doctors who worked at the infamous block 10 at another part of the camp. Those who were chosen underwent brutal surgeries by Doctors Josef Mengele, Carl Clauberg and Horst Schumann. Those who were lucky enough got Dr Eduard Wirths who although took part in selections was nice to the prisoners and saved many lives. He was however in charge of the other three sadists mentioned above. Most SS doctors were forced to make selections of new arrivals and many turned up drunk to cope with the trauma of having to decide who lived and died. Dr Mengele however loved the selection process and often bribed other doctors to allow him to do their selections for them. Twins were his favourite and he did horrendous experiments on them, too many to list here.

So as the other contributor above says many evil things happened there. Auschwitz still exists today. It is at the side of a main road yet an eerie silence transcends over the place. The birds don't sing and the sun doesnt shine properly. I would urge everyone to visit it at least once as it is a monument of Nazi evil, and an example of what human beings are capable of when consumed by blind hate racism and bigotry.

If you were labeled as unfit for work you were killed as soon as practical.

On the long train ride their you were crammed in cattle cars (train cars for animals) for trips that took nearly four days. Only a small bucket was given to hold bodily wastes. After these horrible trains stopped the Nazis at the camp stripped them down naked. Then, their hair was cut off painfully. If you were not to be killed immediately then you had a serial number tattooed on to you . If you were to be killed, "nice" people approached you saying " Hey everything will be alright, just come with us into these showers". Victims were even give towels and pieces of soap, so that they wont be alarmed. And then, you went in. Pellets of Zyklon-B were dropped. For about f10-20 minutes you would slowly and painfully die. Some children whose faces were covered by their mothers survived the Zyklon-B attack. After that the gas was pumped out. Any survivors were given lethal injections.

Answer 2

Auschwitz was a concentration camp where Nazis killled thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.

-1.2 million Jews were killed

- Millions of other Jews was sent to do slave working

-Nazis made a profit of other 100 million reichmarks

-Gassing of Jews was used in 1942 and that about 750,000 jews

-Shootings only lasted for abour a 1 year but it did kill other 300,000 jews

-Woman, Children and unfit workers was killed upon arrival

-Twins were experimented on

Answer 3

Most were gassed as soon as practical after arrival. Some others were used as slave labour.

Virtually all were murdered in different ways such as gassing, shooting, starvation and over-working.

Answer 4

Birkenau, also known as Auschwitz II, was the section added to the original Auschwitz camp in 1941-42. Its main function was gassing Jews on an industrial scale on arrival. It also housed the women's forced labout camp.

Answer 5

The mass killing of millions and torturous slave labouring

Answer 6

Killings and labour workings