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Auschwitz
Auschwitz was a Nazi controlled concentration, extermination and labor camp located in Poland. Opened in 1940, the camp was liberated in 1945 by Soviet troops. Questions and answers about Auschwitz can be found here.
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no. it was a Nazi camp used to hold, and kill Jews during ww2.
What were the problems faced by Hoss at Auschwitz?
Höss could not keep up with the demands made by Berlin. The two 'cottages' simply could not cope with the number of Jews being sent. Höss decided that the camp had to become more factory oriented - that Auschwitz would have to become a factory of death if it was to keep up with the planned arrivals of Jews.
What is the punishment for a class 3 felony?
For Class 3 felonies, imprisonment for five to 20 years and a fine of up to $100,000. Thiis for the state of Virgina Ref: ttp://www.abc.state.va.us/facts/punish.html
Why do they eventually leave Auschwitz?
The Germans left because they did not want to be caught by the Soviet advance.
When Primo Levi arrives in Auschwitz what factors lead him to believe that this is hell?
one was that people were not helping each other, but rather would do whatever to their fellow man to advance themselves.
What is the term for people held by terrorists?
Being held hostage; when it's for money etc. it's called being held for ransom
Did Auschwitz concentration camp have a band?
Auschwitz Women's camp (in Auschwitz II) had an orchestra formed from inmates by Commandant Maria Mandel. She saw to it that they were adequately fed and clothed and they were provided with better accommodation and heating.
The women had to play when the long columns of inmates were marched off to work in the mornings and when they returned in the evening - and also during hangings.
Fania Fenelon has written about her time as a member of the Auschwitz Women's Orchestra.
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Treblinka had a brass ensemble.
One example of a Polish aristocrat was Jan Zamoyski, who died in 2002 at age 90, in Warsaw.
His NYTimes obituary is in the Related Links section.
How many people were supposed to have died before the 1980 in the Auschwitz gas chambers?
certainly more than after the 1980.
Is there a birds eye view of Auschwitz 1?
The location of the Auschwitz concentration camp can be found in Google Earth, Google Maps, or Bing Maps by viewing the coordinates at 50° 2′ 9″ N, 19° 10′ 42″ E. This area is situated in Brzezinka, Poland 50 kilometers (31 mi) west of Kraków.
Auschwitz I was known as the Main Camp, which today stands as part the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Memorial.
Google has limited Street View photographs of the camp, but it the streets outside the camp are available in Street View along with 3-D models of the buildings and towers of the camp. Likewise, you can see bird-eye imagery in Bing Maps.
What types of killing devices were employed in Auschwitz?
There were of course the infamous and widely used: gassing, shooting and killing by lethal injection.
Also there were reasonably well used: hanging, death in the suffocation cells and starvation cells, being beaten to death by clubs, killed by the dogs.
Then there were the rarely employed devices: like when they were trying to find a cheap and efficient way to commit mass murder (unnecessarily gruesome to mention).
There was almost no way in which someone was not murdered in Auschwitz, i have even come across one account where someone was buried alive.
What is the town of Auschwitz associated with?
Auschwitz is infamous for being the location of a group of concentration camps established by the Nazis, used for the forced labor and systematic murder of human beings in World War 2.
What path did Elie Wiesel take when he was being evacuated from Auschwitz?
He chose to march with the Germans away from the approaching Russian army.
How many people did Rudolf hoss testify that were murdered at Auschwitz?
The figure given in his confession was three million, but even the chief prosecutor said at the time that the figure was too high. Scholarly research by the Auschwitz Museum estimates at least 1.1 million killed at Auschwitz.
the retreat
How much does it cost to go visit the Auschwitz concentration camp?
According to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial website (www.auschwitz.org), admission to the memorial grounds is free.
What did the us do when they discovered Auschwitz?
the head of the camp (Adolf hitter) told them to say to the police it was a center parcs summer camp and say they saved there hair of for a activity play the play was called the attack of the boldys hittler got away with it
by Ryan Bramley
What is one major incident of the Holocaust?
The most dramatic incident that stands out is the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April-May 1943.
Why did the US refuse to bomb Nazi death camps like Auschwitz?
Because it had no strategic importance
