they did. Several hundred inmates learned in October 1944 that they were to be killed and rose up against the Nazis, killing three guards. They also blew up one of the crematoriums and a gas chamber with explosives smuggled in by inmates who were used as forced labor at an arms factory.
The Nazis crushed the uprising, killing almost everyone who was involved. The women who smuggled the explosives into the camp were hanged in public.
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The revolt only included some 400 of the Sonderkommando. Unfortunately the resistance group of the main camp, with whom the SK had been planning a revolt for the previous few months, refused to join in as knew that the Soviets were not far away.
many people got prisoners from Auschwitz, the Buna works probably got the most.
The only Nazi camp that tattooed prisoners was the Auschwitz group, where prisoners selected for work were tattooed. Prisoners at other camps and those sent immediately to be gassed at Auschwitz were not tattooed.
405,000
About 300 prisoners escaped from Auschwitz without being recaptured.
It was either the SS or the prisoners in AUschwitz, it's usually the Prisoners who put the bodies in the creamatories but the SS are the ones who burns the bodies. This just dont happen in Auschwitz, this happens in all extermination and death camps.
The sanitary at Auschwitz was very poor for the prisoners in it.
Auschwity Prisoners were mainly from Hungary and Poland
many people got prisoners from Auschwitz, the Buna works probably got the most.
The only Nazi camp that tattooed prisoners was the Auschwitz group, where prisoners selected for work were tattooed. Prisoners at other camps and those sent immediately to be gassed at Auschwitz were not tattooed.
No, of course not.
unpleasant, especially for the prisoners.
405,000
About 17,000 at Auschwitz I, II and III combined.
About 300 prisoners escaped from Auschwitz without being recaptured.
a lot
Yes, and 48 of them were killed.
They had numbers to represent their names