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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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What did prisoners at Auschwitz have tattooed on their arm?
Prisoners in the camps were tattooed for two reasons. Firstly, it was their "Prison ID Number", and second (and more cruelly) it is against Jewish law to become tattooed or to desecrate ones flesh. So, the Germans tattooing the mostly Jewish prisoners was a sick joke almost, as it would not allow them to enter their heaven or to even be buried in a Jewish cemetery as this is not permitted.
Why did the Auschwitz camp open?
to put more jews in there cuz the other camps where already filled up
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Auschwitz opened in May 1940 as a harsh concentration camp for:
- Members of the Polish resistance.
- Polish intellectuals.
- Habitual criminal (mainly from Germany).
A handful of these early inmates were even released ...
Auschwitz did not become a Nazi extermination centre till 1942.
When did the Nazis first start sending Jews to Auschwitz?
Jews were miinly sent to Auschwitz between 1942-1944 but some Jews were sent to Auschwitz in 1940-1941 and 1945.
Why didn't prisoners revolt at Auschwitz?
they did. Several hundred inmates learned in October 1944 that they were to be killed and rose up against the Nazis, killing three guards. They also blew up one of the crematoriums and a gas chamber with explosives smuggled in by inmates who were used as forced labor at an arms factory.
The Nazis crushed the uprising, killing almost everyone who was involved. The women who smuggled the explosives into the camp were hanged in public.
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The revolt only included some 400 of the Sonderkommando. Unfortunately the resistance group of the main camp, with whom the SK had been planning a revolt for the previous few months, refused to join in as knew that the Soviets were not far away.
How many Jews were murdered at Auschwitz?
About 1.3 millon
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No, that's one estimate of the number that were killed there. The extermination camp at Birkenau (Auschwitz II) was a highly efficient killing centre. Trainloads of Jews arrived, the majority was classified as unfit for work and were dead with 24 hours.
The number of Jews living in the Auschwitz complex as slave labourers was not more than 20,000 at any one time.
What did the Auschwitz inmates eat?
none really if you where lucky you where feed stale bread crust and a very small portion of water.
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there was food, but the Jews were not allowed to eat it.
Which country built Auschwitz?
Auschwitz isn't a country, it is a town in Southern Poland just West of Krakow, made famous by the Germans who set up many concentration camps in the area during the Holocaust.
How many people died before the Auschwitz was liberated?
assuming that you mean how many were dead there, as opposed to anywhere else or had died at any other time: Almost all of the dead that had died before the 19th had been disposed of, so the only dead were from those too weak to march out of there in the (just over a) week before they were liberated. The figure i think is about two thousand.
Anne Frank was moved by the Germans from Amsterdam to Westerbork, from Westerbork to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and then to Bergen-Belson where she died. How many miles did Anne travel while prisoner of the Germans?
2000 miles
What are some groups that were killed at Auschwitz?
Gypsies, lesbians, handicapped, Jewish, or anyone who oppsed Hitler.
Male homosexuals and soviet pow were a big target
How many people were sent to Auschwitz?
In a 1989 article by Franciszek Piper, the head of research at the Auschwitz Museum:
- At least 1.3 million prisoners entered the Auschwitz complex.
- Just under 200,000 left alive. This does not of course mean that they all survived. Many, like Anne and Margot Frank, were moved to other camps, where they perished.
- 1.1 million were killed at Auschwitz, of whom about 85-90% were Jews.
What was the year Auschwitz was established?
The camps that were officially and only designed for killing occured right after the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942 in Poland.
These included the six infamous camps:
Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Majdanek.
However, the nearly hundred or more other detention and slave labor camps in other areas occupied by Nazi Germany starting with Dachau in 1933 had horrible conditions any many times served effectively as killing camps.
For example, just to name two camps that were not set up as killing camps, but ended up killing thousands and thousands were:
Bergen Belsen -- 50,000 killed
Theresienstadt -- 33,000 killed
It's very important to remember also that the Nazis didn't just kill in concentration camps.
They also killed in prisoner of war camps. For example they killed 3.5 Soviet prisoners of war.
It is estimated Nazis killed about one million Jews and others by hanging or shooting within several weeks of invading the Soviet Union.
Lastly, Nazis even planned to kill entire cities by starvation. Consider the 872 day seige of Leningrad where the Nazis killed about another million.
Anyone the Nazi's wanted to get rid of - old people, insane people, crippled people, catholics, polish people etc. And of course Jews. Lots and lots of Jews.
How is Elies arrival at buchenwald different from the arrival at Auschwitz?
there no answer & stop doing you homework on the internet
What was Dr Josef Menegele's job at Auschwitz?
Mengele performed medical experiments on the inmates. This included atrocities such as sterilization and unnecessary surgery (even sewing twins together to make them "conjoined"). Perhaps most famous is his experiments on twins. He believed that he had a rare opportunity to make sure a set of twins would die at the same time, and he would perform autopsies. He was known as the Angel of Death.
When was the third Auschwitz built?
The original camp at Auschwitz was established in May 1940 as a large and very harsh concentration camp, initially intended mainly for Polish patriots and intellectuals.
The extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz II) was built in 1941-42 about one 1.5 miles from the original camp and became fully operational in the spring of 1942.
Auschwitz-Monowitz (Auschwitz III) followed in 1942, built by I-G. Farben. It was the first private entreprise camp.
AnswerAuschwitz is the name of a group of German concentration camps and 45 sub-camps. The name is derived from the German name for the nearby Polish town of Oświęcim, situated about 60 kilometres (37 mi) southwest of Krakow. Beginning in 1940, Nazi Germany built several concentration camps and an extermination camp in the area, which at the time had been annexed by Nazi Germany. The camps were a major element in the perpetration of the Holocaust, killing around 1.1-1.5 million people, of whom about 90% were Jews.The three main camps were:
Auschwitz I served as the administrative center for the whole complex. It was founded on May 20, 1940, on the basis of an old Polish brick army barracks.
Auschwitz II (Birkenau) is the camp that many people know simply as "Auschwitz". It was the site of the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands, and the killings of over one million people, mainly Jews.
The camp is located in Brzezinka (Birkenau), about 3 kilometres (1.8 mi) from Auschwitz I. Construction started in 1941, as part of the Final Solution. The camp was about 2.5 kilometres by 2 kilometres large and was divided into several sections, each of which was separated into fields. Fields as well as the camp itself were surrounded with barbed, electrified wire (which was used by some of the inmates to commit suicide). The camp held up to 100,000 prisoners at one time.
The camp's main purpose, however, was not internment with forced labour (as Auschwitz I & III) but rather extermination. For this purpose, the camp was equipped with four crematoria with gas chambers; each gas chamber was designed to hold up to 2,500 people at one time. Large-scale extermination started in Spring 1942.
Auschwitz III and satellite camps
The surrounding satellite camps were closely connected to German industry and were associated with arms factories, foundries and mines. The largest work camp was Auschwitz III Monowitz, named after the Polish village of Monowice. Starting operations in May 1942, it was associated with the synthetic rubber and liquid fuel plant Buna-Werke owned by IG Farben. In regular intervals, doctors from Auschwitz II would visit the work camps and select the weak and sick for the gas chambers of Birkenau. The largest subcamps were built at Trzebinia, Blechammer and Althammer. Female subcamps were constructed at Budy, Plawy, Zabrze, Gleiwitz I, II, III, Rajsko and at Lichtenwerden.
[Source: Wikipedia article on Auschwitz]
1940-41.
How many Jews were gassed each day at Auschwitz?
there was no daily quota, the gas chambers were only in opperation for about half of the time that Auschwitz was open. The main gas chambers were not on-line for much of that time.
At the peak Auschwitz could murder 30,000 in a day, however this number was unsustainable over a long period.
-The 3 main camps and 45 subcamps
-Organised working facilities for the workers to work in
-Redesign the barracks to where the prisoners are slee[ing at
-Build pit areas to dispoce the dead bodies
-Build gas chambers
-Built electrical fences to keep the prisoners in
What happened to the Jews when they arrived at birkenau?
Usually when they arrived, the are separated through a process known as the selection process. This simply was separating the weak from the strong and this was how families were separated and destroyed. The stronger side were sent to do force labor work and the weaker usually consisted of woman, children, elderly and sick were killed.
What percent of people died in Auschwitz?
we know most of those that died were Jews but we don't know EXACTLY how many people died. They were buried all over the place, and some of the bodies were burned.
Also the Germans took many of the Jews belongings and the Allies recovered these while liberating Jews so the number of items gives an iffy amount but is fairly accurate
What airport is closest to Auschwitz in Germany?
Warsaw is the nearest major international airport, but you might consider Krakow, which is very close.
What is the definition of Auschwitz?
There isn't an actual meaning for Auschwitz.
Auschwitz was the biggest group of Nazi camps. It included the biggest of all the Nazi extermination camps (Auschwitz II - Birkenau) and also included very harsh slave-labor camps and concentration camps.
For many, the word Auschwitz has come to symbolize the Holocaust.
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Perhaps you are asking about the plain meaning of the place-name: in German it has no particular meaning. However, the Polish name, Oswiecim means holy ...!
