How many people were killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz?

Answer 1

It is estimated that approximately 1.1 million people were killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, which was the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp during World War II. The majority of those killed were Jewish, but also included other targeted groups such as Poles, Romani people, Soviet prisoners of war, and others deemed undesirable by the Nazis. The gas chambers at Auschwitz were a central part of the systematic genocide carried out by the Nazis as part of the Holocaust.

Answer 2

According to an article published in 1989 by Franciszek Piper, the director of research at the Auschwitz Museum, the minimum number of victims killed at the Auschwitz group of camps between 1940 and 1945 is 1.1 million, of whom about 90% were Jews. This figure is deliberately cautious. Since 1989 most serious scholarship on the subject has suggested a figure of between 1.1 and 1.5 million dead.

The figure of 1.1 million is deliberately cautious and should be treated as the lowest serious figure. The German Wikipedia article gives a figure of 1.4 million, for example.

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Piper's estimate was based on careful research, using captured camp records released to the museum in 1989, counting all registered prisoners as well as all transports arriving at the camp and departing from it. The number of victims cannot be determined with complete accuracy, because the Nazis did not count people being loaded onto transports from Eastern Europe, but Piper was able to narrow the number down to between 1.1 million and 1.3 million. Raul Hilberg, who used German railway records to count departures rather than arrivals, had arrived at more or less the same number in 1961, when he estimated that 1 million Jews had died in the camp. Piper gave a breakdown of deaths by nationality, which is highly accurate for registered prisoners (who were tattooed with numbers), but not for those, almost exclusively Jews, who were gassed on arrival or shortly afterwards, without being registered. The uncertainty lies almost entirely in the latter group, whose number Piper estimates at between 900,000 and 1.1 million. In other words, Hilberg got it right 50 years ago, but nobody listened to him because they didn't like his number. People should not make up their minds about numbers on the basis of whether they like them or not, they should look into how they were arrived at. The best estimate of the number of victims at Auschwitz is Piper's, and it is unlikely to be improved upon. All other estimates are obsolete.

Answer 3

In 1989 the research department of the Auschwitz Museum estimated that the total number of people killed at the Auschwitz group of camps was about 1.15 million, of whom about 85-90% were Jews. The overall figure of 1.15 million was deliberately cautious, but most serious debate since then has suggested an overall figure of between 1.15 and 1.5 million dead, and the percentage of Jews has generally been around 85%. Most modern Holocaust scholarship suggests figures in the range 1.15-1.5 million.

(Earlier figures, many of which are higher, are considered completely unreliable).

Please see the link for a discussion of the figures.

Answer 4

The Holocaust Museum at Auschwitz has made its own, cautious estimates. These are: about 1.1 million prisoners perished (from by being worked to death, by gassing, shooting or from disease) at Auschwitz and its sub-camps. About 90% of those killed were Jews. This figure is cautious and is based on the total number of prisoners thought to have entered Auschwitz (about 1.3 million) less the number that left the camp alive (about 200,000). To avoid misunderstanding, one should point out that this does notmean that these people survived the Holocaust: many were transferred to other camps, where they perished. As noted, the figure of 1.1 million is cautious, and many would argue for a figure of about 1.3 million.

Answer 5

Articles by Franciszek Piper, the head of research at the Auschwitz Museum, published in 1989-94, give these figures as the minimum estimates for the Auschwitz group of camps:

1. Entered the Auschwitz group of camps (including Auschwitz-Birkenau) as prisoners: about 1.3 million.
2. Left the Auschwitz group alive: about 190,000. (This does not mean that all these people survived the holocaust, as many were transferred to other camps, and perished there).
3. Total estimated number of prisoner deaths from all causes in the Auschwitz group of camps: about 1.1 million, of whom at least 85% were Jews.

He stresses that these figures are cautious estimates.

Most serious debate since then has put the figures in the range c. 1.1-1.5 million.

(In 1946 the Soviet Union officially estimated 4 million dead, but this figure - which was regarded at the time by some Polish investigators as far too high - is not taken seriously any more and was repeatedly queried when first published).

At least 960,000 Jews were killed in Auschwitz. Other victims included approximately 140,000-150,000 Poles, 21,000 Roma (Gypsies), and 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war; and 10,000-15,000 members of other nationalities (Soviet civilians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, French, Germans, and Austrians).

Note the Auschwitz group of camps combined the functions of an extremely harsh concentration camp and those of an extermination camp. The main killing centre was in Auschwitz II (Birkenau). The majority of Jews taken to Auschwitz were killed within 12-48 hours of their arrival.

Answer 6

About 3.7 million in gaschambers

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about 1.1 million of which just under a million were Jews. Auschwitz contains the room where more humans have died than anywhere else on earth.

Answer 7

Although the exact figure may never be known, it has been estimated to be 2 million.

Answer 8

Approximately 1.6 million people were executed at Auschwitz.

Answer 9

over a million, less than one and a half million.

Answer 10

1,000,000-1,500,000 i think