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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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How many people from each country were killed in the Holocaust?
Have a look at the link for country by country lists of the figures. You really need to look at the whole page, as the borders of many countries changed during World War 2.
The lists go by country of deportation, in order to avoid double counting. So, for example, people who fled from Germany to France before the start of World War 2, but were later sent from France to Auschwitz, are included in the total for France only. Obviously, especially in Poland and the former Soviet Union. many victims were killed in mass open-air shootings - in which case the question of deportation doesn't arise, only the country of death.
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This gives the categories of people, but is not a country by country list.
According to Wikipedia (search "holocaust), the toll was as follows:
- Jews - 5.9 million
- Soviet POWs - 2-3 million
- Ethnic Poles - 1.8-2 million
- Romani - 220,000-1.5 million
- Yugoslavs - 581,000
- East Slavs [Russians, Ukrainians, Belarussians] - 1,670,000
- Disabled - 200,000-250,000
- Homosexuals - 5,000 to 15,000
- Jehovah's Witnesses - 2,500 to 5,000
How did the Jews escape from Auschwitz?
The butchery stopped when Allied troops (Soviets in most cases, since the camps were primarily in Eastern Europe) overran the camps. However, true freedom did not stop until the Jews were able to leave the Displaced Persons Camps and immigrate to the US, UK, or Mandatory Palestine.
What was Zyklon B in Auschwitz?
No, the only camps to use ZyklonB were Auschwitz and Majdanek. The other camps, including Trelinka, used carbon monoxide.
How many Jews died in Aushwitz?
There was no weekly quota. Though Auschwitz was open for four and a half years; more people were killed in 1944 than in the other three and a half years combined.
How many people could fit in a crematorium at Auschwitz?
Sorry I had to delete someones answer that said only 1 body was loaded in each oven, so heres some first hand testimony - WARNING - GRAPHIC - There were 5 Crematoriums at Auschwitz, but 52 Muffles, which are the openings allowing bodies to be fed into. They got very good at being able to fit the maximum amount of bodies in each muffle. They could burn 4-5 at a time continuously and sometimes 8 or more depending on the size of bodies. There are some sickening eye witness accounts coming first hand from the germans loading the ovens. This coming from a SonderKommando talks about how they would put the first 2 stacked, head to toe, face up but since the bodies arms and legs raise as they burn they would have to work fast to load the next bodies. They would burn the children with adults, loading a couple adults first so the children wouldnt slip through the grid bars into the ash bin, and then stack as many children as they could on top, sometimes as many as 8. This I quote "Women's bodies burned much better and more quickly than those of men. For this reason, when a charge was burning badly, we would introduce a woman's body to accelerate the combustion.".
Essentially, once the first bodies started to burn they would continue adding more to keep the fires hot. They learned to combine fat/skinny people and children to achieve maximum efficiency. (Sorry I want to say large people, but fat is fuel basically).
How many people starved at Auschwitz?
Just under a hundred thousand died in the Warsaw ghetto, but mainly from ilness or disease complicated by starvation, rather than just starvation.
What choice did each man have at Auschwitz?
Most were gassed as soon as practical after arrival and had no choice.
Why was Auschwitz buit in Poland?
Auschwitz was not "stationed" in Poland. Auschwitz is a German name for town of Oswiecim. When in 1939 Germans invaded Poland they changed all the Polish names to German names, Polish language was forbidden. Part of the camp was acctually an old army barracks, in 1940 the Germans built the concentration camp around it. In years 1940-42 the inmates were mainly Poles and Russian soldiers. Then in 1942 first Jewish transports came. A total of at least 1.1 million people were killed there, mostly Jews from all over Europe, then Poles, Gypsies, Russians. Auschwitz was located at the crossroads of rail system, easy way to transport people. Germans were practical. And since that most European Jews lived in Poland it was logical to place camp as such there. Instead in, let's say, Denmark where only 6-8 thousands Jews lived. Imagine problems caused by transporting 3 million Polish Jews to Denmark or other country, such as France. There were other camps, like and Majdanek were majority of prisoners were non-Jews.
Was it possible to live near Auschwitz and not know what was happening there?
no, even if one never went out or talked to other people, there was still the smell, the clouds and the ash.
How many people were saved from Auschwitz?
Not many. Millions of people died in German concentration camps. Only about a hundred died in concentration camps in America.
What are the subdivisions of Auschwitz?
Sub divisions means Sub camps of auschwitz
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How many babies were killed in Auschwitz?
as many of the babies were killed without the guards knowing, and most that they did know about were killed without being counted; there is no way to tell.
Why did Auschwitz become a symbol for the Holocaust?
Auschwitz was the biggest Nazi extermination camp. It has been called the largest graveyard in human history and therefore has become a symbol for the Holocaust itself. It is estimated that 1.1 million to 1.6 million died there.
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Moreover, Auschwitz was a combined extermination camp and group of concentration camps (unlike most other camps, which were either of the one type or the other, but not both). As a result, there were far more survivors from the Auschwitz group of camps than from extermination camps like Treblinka and Sobibor. Some of the survivors gave evidence in postwar trials and some wrote their memoirs.
How long does it take to go from Berlin to Auschwitz by train?
The memorial? - there is not much to it, you can do it in ten seconds. But if you want to see the rest of it; like the museum or Birkenau, each of those would take you a couple of hours.
What happened to the Jews that got to Auschwitz?
They all get separated from their families men go into part 1 or 2 and women in the other and the ones that are not fit for work go straight to the gas chambers or crematoria and all children who stepped off that train was also be sent to the gas chambers or crematoria. It's all so sad.
What was wiesel first impression of Auschwitz?
He thought that birkenau was better than Auschwitz , with cement buildings with 2 stories rather than wooden barracks and little gardens here and there
Was Maximilian Kolbe in Auschwitz?
he was sent there because he was being bad and instead of jail the sent him to the terrible concentration camp
How many POWs died in World War 2?
The main difficulties in arriving at an overall total arise from major uncertainties as to the number of Soviet soldiers killed in World War 2. The figures for military dead for the Soviet Union range from 8.8 million to 10.7 million.
See the link to the Wikipedia article, which (as accessed on 13 April 2010) gives a worldwide total of military dead ranging from about 22.6 million to about 25.5 million (and an overall worldwide range, including civilians, of 62.4 million to 78.4 million).
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thousands :(
(gone but not forgotten Stanley <3)
there were 56,125,262 soldiers that died in the war.
Why do Jews go on pilgrimage to Auschwitz?
If you have never visited Yad Vashem, or haven't been back since your first visit to Israel, then it's time to drive out to Mount Herzl and the edge of the Jerusalem Forest to experience the Holocaust museum that was redesigned, updated and rededicated in 2005.
The new campus of Yad Vashem, designed by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie, is both a memorial and a learning and resource center, and it accomplishes both tasks in a masterful and evocative way. The stark main building of the History Museum cuts a painful long triangular swath through the forest. Visitors traverse the history of the Jewish communities affected by the rise of Nazism and the terror of the Holocaust (the Shoah, in Hebrew) via a series of exhibits that illustrate life before, during and after the tragic events of the mid-twentieth century.
Personal artifacts, historical documents and survivor testimonies all bring the narrative home. Much of the exhibit is underground, illuminated by shafts of light from the skylights overhead. At the end of the museum, visitors emerge into the bright light of a Jerusalem day, with parts of the vibrant city displayed below. There are various Holocaust memorials throughout the 4,200 square meter landscape, and visitors may want to stop at those that are most personally meaningful. One of the most poignant is the Children's Memorial, hollowed out of a natural cavern in the Jerusalem bedrock. The space is designed to commemorate the 1.5 million children who perished in the Shoah. Their names are hauntingly heard as visitors traverse the space. The Valley of Communities is a collection of over 5,000 names of Jewish communities, engraved into stone walls, that existed prior to the war. For those seeking information about relatives who perished or communities that were decimated, the Hall of Names and the research center is an excellent resource. Millions of pages of testimony in many languages document the lives of those who were murdered in the Holocaust. Yad Vashem's extensive publications are available in the bookstore near the museum entrance. Children under 10 are not admitted, nor are infants in carriers or strollers. There is no entrance fee. Public transportation, including the Light Rail, runs to the top of Mt Herzl, and a frequent free shuttle van brings visitors from Mt Herzl to the museum entrance. Parking is available in the garage for 20 NIS.
Most large groups arrive in the morning. The museum is relatively empty in the later afternoon hours and on Thursday evenings. Group visits (5 or more people) must be arranged in advance. Guided tours are available for a fee. Museum tours are given via headsets, which can be picked up at the Visitor's Center. Tours are available in many different languages. Hours: Sun-Wed: 9 a.m-5 p.m Th: 9a.m-8 p.m. Fri and holiday eves: 9 a.m-2 p.m.
Why do people where striped pajamas in Auschwitz?
Yes, they did!
The uniform, being given the nickname pyjamas. In winter they would be given a coat of the same 'pyjama'-style.
No, it is now a museum.
Krematorium IV was destroyed in the revolt and never rebuilt.
Krematoriums II, III and V were destroyed by the Nazis before they evacuated.
Krematorium I was re-modelled into an air-raid shelter.
In the years since all of the wooden structures have rotted away, but the brick/stone/cement structures remain as do the remains of the destroyed krematoria.
How many huts where in Auschwitz camp?
by meaning 1 hut, i think you mean either How many people were in 1 concentration camp or 1 hut as a gas chamber at Auschwitz I
well i tell both
Depending on which concentration camp, theirs hundreds of them with spaces but i use a popular common camp and that is Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Auschwitz II-Birkenau has a max cap of 2.1 million people.
Red house hut was a hut only for gas chamber prisoners and it could kill up to 12,500 prisoners at a time
Who were key leaders of Auschwitz?
This is a difficult question given that the Furher Orders that were issued by Hitler were never written down. We can ASSUME he knew about it, but whether he issued the order is another matter. The common concensus is that Himmler and Heydrich organised it and came to the Final Soloution idea. The original plan was evacuation to Madagasca, but the logistical problem was too complex for the road, rail and air network the Nazi Government possesed. We can safely assume most of the major players in the Cabinet either OKed the decision or knew about it in passing.
When did Mass murder of Jewish people at Auschwitz begin?
Routine (as opposed to experimental) gassings started at Chelmno on the 8th of December, 1941. However, since 25 June 1941 mobile killing units had operated behind German lines in the Soviet Union. massacring Jews on a large scale.
How many parts did Auschwitz have?
It had 3 sections.
Auschwitz-I, which served as a working camp.
Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the death camp.
Auschwitz-III, it was used to provide slave labor to the nearby industry.
