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Why has the name Auschwitz become a symbol for The Holocaust?
Auschwitz was the single largest killing camp.
Did German Jews go to Auschwitz?
Many German Jews were sent to Auschwitz. Others were slaughtered in Belarus and the killing fields of Latvia.
What was the biggest concentration camp called?
Auschwitz the largest killing up to 3-4 thousand Jews a day
What is an explanation of the purpose of Birkenau?
it was originally an expansion of Auschwitz, meant as housing for forced labour. it developed into a killing factory.
What was the most famous concentration camp?
Auschwitz. It was the most efficient of the killing factories. A close second was Dachau. See the link..
When and where did the gassings start at Auschwitz?
The first gassings of prisoners occur in Auschwitz I on Wednesday 3rd September 1941. The SS tests Zyklon B gas by killing 850 people, Mainly soviet POWs and people who were weak and ill. Testing takes place in a gas chamber in the cellar of Block 11 in Auschwitz I. The success of these experiments leads to the adoption of Zyklon B as the killing agent for Auschwitz II-Birkenau. ___________ However, those early gassing were experimental. Auschwitz did not become a routine gassing centre till well into 1942, after Treblinka and Belzec.
What was the purpose of building Auschwitz?
Gas chambers Pits/Graves to dispose the gassed/Burned bodies Area where people worked from agriculturing to moving heavy pieces of metal Barracks with concret blockes where the prisoners to sleep on So basically Auschwitz was a killing/Slave working camp
What does Auschwitz mean to you?
It doesnt mean anything before it was used by now the only meaning on Auschwitz is "The word Auschwitz comes from a Nazi concentraion camp in the town Auschwitz. ____________ It is just the German version of the Polish name: Oswiechim.
Why did they have extermination camps?
They were set up because by this way Hitler segregated the Jews and the other undesirables and kill them. some famous killing centres were Auschwitz.
What were the ages of the people sent to Auschwitz?
Every age of Jews were sent to the camps, from newborns to centegenarians.
What were the kind of killing in Auschwitz?
most of it was done by poison gas, but it was doubtful that a day went by when someone was not shot or beaten to death. (not that those were the limits of methods of execution).
What are the names of the 3 main camps including Auschwitz?
Auschwitz I Stammlager, Auschwitz II Birkenau and Auschwitz III Monowitz
