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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 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.
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.
What are the names of the 3 main camps including Auschwitz?
Auschwitz I Stammlager, Auschwitz II Birkenau and Auschwitz III Monowitz
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.
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.
How many Jews lived in Europe after the Holocaust?
On the eve of World War 2 there were an estimated 9.4-9.5 million Jews in Europe and after the war about 3.4 million.
In Auschwitz what happens to their heads and clothes?
they were stored in a section of the camp called 'Kanada'. Periodically they would get sent back to Germany, or used in the Winter Relief effort, or sold in town.
What do the characters call Auschwitz in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?
Auschwitz was a real-life concentration and extermination camp from the Second World War. John Boyce had Bruno refer it it phonetically as 'Out-With' to showcase his innocence and naivety.
How was the buchenwald concentration camp different from Treblinka and Auschwitz?
1. Auschwitz was a combined extermination camp (part of Auschwitz II) and a vast complex of concentration camps with 45 sub-camps. The only other dual purpose camp of this kind was Majdanek, which was much smaller.
2. The Auschwitz group of camps was the biggest and had the highest death toll of all (about 1.15 million dead).
3. Because of its dual role, Auschwitz had more survivors than many other camps. Nearly all the survivors were from Auschwitz I, III and the subcamps.
Some people of the Sonderkommando - that is the group of prisoners forced to cremate the corpses after they had been gassed - also survived. (Belzec and Chelmno, for example, which were 'extermination-only' camps and served noother purpose at all, had only two known survivors each at the end of World War 2).
4. Auschwitz has acquired an iconic status - if that is the right term - over and above that of any other Nazi camp. Before the term the Holocaust came into widespread use in the late 1970s people sometimes referred simply to Auschwitz. It was a kind of short term for the Holocaust.
Now, how far (and in what sense) these things make Auschwitz unique is something you will have to decide.
What type of people lived in Auschwitz?
Most people taken into concentration camps were Jewish people. Anyone who hid a Jewish person or who had any contact with a Jewish person was taken to a concentration camp. Sometimes, they would have people who did not obey the military commands.
