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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 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.
How were people killed in the Auschwitz death camp?
Auschwitz-Birkenau became the killing centre where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. After an experimental gassing there in September 1941 of 850 malnourished and ill prisoners, mass murder became a daily routine. By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B began at Auschwitz, where extermination was conducted on an industrial scale with some estimates running as high as three million persons eventually killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning ...
9 out of 10 were Jews. In addition, Gypsies, Soviet POWs, and prisoners of all nationalities died in the gas chambers. Between May 14 and July 8,1944, 437,402 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 148 trains. This was probably the largest single mass deportation during the Holocaust.
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp facility, was located nearby the provincial Polish town of Oshwiecim in Galacia, and was established by order of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler on 27 April 1940. Private diaries of Goebbels and Himmler unearthed from the secret Soviet archives show that Adolf Hitler personally ordered the mass extermination of the Jews during a meeting of Nazi German regional governors in the chancellery. As Goebbels wrote "With regards to the Jewish question, the Fuhrer decided to make a clean sweep ..."
Which part of Auschwitz did Otto Frank get separated from his family?
How much land was there at the Auschwitz concentration camp?
With All 3 main camps alone, the total land areas was 40 sq Kilometers=15.4441 Sq Miles = 430,556,416.67 Sq Feet.
If you include all the Sub-camps and the Factories where they worked then total land area of about 60 sq Kilometers = 23.166 Sq Miles.
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
How many football pitches could fit in the perimeter of Auschwitz?
"36 football fields could fit in side auscgwitz"
Um no? A football field is 57600 sqaure feet including the end zones. Auschwitz is approximately 11.7 square miles.100,000,000 square feet is approximately 3.7 square miles. 57600 square feet is0.0020661157 square miles.0.0020661157x=11.7
x=5662.8 fields
How long was Anne Frank in hidding?
Anne Frank was in the Secret Annex for 2 years and 29 days
They moved in July 6, 1942 and were arrested August 4, 1944.
2 years
the frank family stayed in hiding in there attic for 2 years until they were found and killed by the Germans :( poor frank family x
How many people escaped from Auschwitz?
According to the Wikipedia article on Auschwitz about 300 prisoners escaped from the Auschwitz group of camps.
