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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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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.

How was Auschwitz destroyed?

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?

The FranksOtto Frank was separated from his family, when the Franks were taken to Aushwitz and women and men were separated. This is the last time he saw 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.

Should Auschwitz be preserved?

The citizens of Poland pay for it's upkeep.

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.

Were there any famous survivors of Auschwitz?

Mostly Jews, but Communists, Gypsies, Gays and Prisoners of war were also sent there.

What was the size of Auschwitz?

The main site at Auschwitz was over 40 square kilometres in total.

Auschwitz comprised of 3 main camps and 45 sub-camps.

Numbers of people sent to the camps are estimated to be, at least, well over a million Jews from all the countries of occupied Europe, over 140,000 Poles (mostly political prisoners), approximately 20,000 Gypsies, over 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and thousands of prisoners of other nationalities. The majority of the Jewish deportees died in the gas chambers immediately after arrival. The estimated total number of victims killed is 1.1 million.

The overall size including the Sub Camps is over 60 square miles, this also Include the factories near Auschwitz.

How many people could sleep in a hut at an Auschwitz concentration camp?

There were no bedrooms for the prisoners in the concentration camps. There were long row buildings or block buildings they were called. They held close to a hundred people in some of them. All they had were wooden shelving stacked and built big enough for people to lie on them. They crammed them full and many had to sleep on the floors or outside. Some concentration camps didn't even have it that good.

What is Auschwitz used as today?

It was a part of the "Final Solution" to the Jewish "problem". Jews were taken there from all over Europe in crowded cattle trucks. Those who survived the journey were split into two groups, those to be immediately killed and those who could temporarily be useful to the running of the camp. Most were stripped and herded into "shower" buildings where they were sealed in & Xylon B was dropped in through a hatch in the roof. This killed them & their bodies were disposed of in purpose built crematoria which were running day & night.

Who worked in Auschwitz?

yes he did after his mother died he moved to Vienna and took menial jobs like working in a library. he sold the paintings he done when he could. In 1914 when the first world war started he volunteered for service and was accepted into the 16th bavarian reserve infantry regiment.

How many people survived Auschwitz Birkenau?

Of those who received numbers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, only 65,000 survived. It is estimated that only about 200,000 people who passed through the Auschwitz camps survived.

How were the Jews treated at Auschwitz-Birkenau?

they were living in barracks with 35 buncks with 500 jews in it. They used a bucket for a bathroom. they had to get there own warmth. they were whiped hanged and ran all over the place then killed

When did Auschwitz close down?

Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps.

It closed down on January 1945 when the Soviet army entered Krakow

(a large city in Poland) the Germans ordered that Auschwitz be abandoned.