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

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.

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

The distance between these 2 camps is 369 miles.

Krakau.

Warsaw is the nearest major international airport, but you might consider Krakow, which is very close.

The Nazis either worked them to death as slave labor. Some Jews died from starvation, disease, and torture. Most of the Jews at Auschwitz were gassed soon after arrival. About 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz. It is the best-known killing center because of it was the largest, with the greatest number of facilities, survivors, and surviving paperwork.

Many Jews and others were killed at this extermination camp. If one was not immediately killed one would have a very hard life as a slave laborer while trying to survive on a starvation diet designed to kill you within a few months.

Evil things, like killing Jews.

On arrival, the trainloads of Jews would be met by SS doctors on the ramp. Those who were fit for work were sent to the slave labour camps to the right. Those who were unfit for work (usually, visibly pregnant women, children under 15 and the elderly) were gassed as soon as practical after arrival. The fit and able-bodied were 'selected' for work.

Those who were "lucky" to survive the initial selection were then under constant threat of being chosen for medical experiments by the Nazi Doctors who worked at the infamous block 10 at another part of the camp. Those who were chosen underwent brutal surgeries by Doctors Josef Mengele, Carl Clauberg and Horst Schumann. Those who were lucky enough got Dr Eduard Wirths who although took part in selections was nice to the prisoners and saved many lives. He was however in charge of the other three sadists mentioned above. Most SS doctors were forced to make selections of new arrivals and many turned up drunk to cope with the trauma of having to decide who lived and died. Dr Mengele however loved the selection process and often bribed other doctors to allow him to do their selections for them. Twins were his favourite and he did horrendous experiments on them, too many to list here.

So as the other contributor above says many evil things happened there. Auschwitz still exists today. It is at the side of a main road yet an eerie silence transcends over the place. The birds don't sing and the sun doesnt shine properly. I would urge everyone to visit it at least once as it is a monument of Nazi evil, and an example of what human beings are capable of when consumed by blind hate racism and bigotry.

If you were labeled as unfit for work you were killed as soon as practical.

On the long train ride their you were crammed in cattle cars (train cars for animals) for trips that took nearly four days. Only a small bucket was given to hold bodily wastes. After these horrible trains stopped the Nazis at the camp stripped them down naked. Then, their hair was cut off painfully. If you were not to be killed immediately then you had a serial number tattooed on to you . If you were to be killed, "nice" people approached you saying " Hey everything will be alright, just come with us into these showers". Victims were even give towels and pieces of soap, so that they wont be alarmed. And then, you went in. Pellets of Zyklon-B were dropped. For about f10-20 minutes you would slowly and painfully die. Some children whose faces were covered by their mothers survived the Zyklon-B attack. After that the gas was pumped out. Any survivors were given lethal injections.

Of course there some survivors of Auschwitz; including some children.

showers were showers, normal inmates would only have one shower during their stay.

But you might be confused with the fake shower heads that were in the gas chambers of extermination camps. They were not showers.

For the jews it was no longer than 24 hours, for the people who worked in there about 2 months, many lasted longer but many laster shorter.

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Three weeks was standard, in winter this would be much shorter.

Those that survived past the three weeks would most likely last much longer as they would have secured a better job, one inside, away from the elements.

The Jews were transported by train in boxcars, and it was dark and packed full. Also, many died due to starvation, thirst and weather conditions.

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They were transported by slow freight trains, with no breaks for food or water and only one bucket per cattle truck for sanitation. The journey often took 3-4 days or longer. They were packed tightly. In winter it was bitterly cold; in summer it was often very hot. On arrival at the camp, some of the victims were already dead. Occasionally, some corpses got left in the cattle trucks ... There are documents still in existence in which the German railways (Deutsche Reichsbahn) sent bills to the SS for having to arrange funerals for these!

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Jews were sent to concentration camps in small little train carriages in some people died in the train before they even got to the concentration camp!!

Summary: physically leaving the camp was not too hard, compared to modern prisons. It was just some barbed wire and a few guards. The difficulty was in staying free. After escaping, you would need help from the resistance and other trustees.

There was no legal or factual way out. There were normal prisons in wartime Germany, which like any other prison you could leave once you had served your time. The camps were a one way prison.

There were however a few ways out. Usually, camp guards were vastly outnumbered by prisoners, and though paradoxically it was safer to be inside and 'hide' in the crowd, escape was not altogether that difficult. The problem was staying out. People managed to cut through or dig under the wires, sneak out in the trunks of trucks and cars or wear costumes and disguises. Others bribed their way out or simply ran for it. All these methods had varying (low) degrees of success. Most survivors simply survived inside until the war was over.

Once escape was detected, there would be punitive actions against the remaining prisoners, another deterrent for would-be escapees.

By far the most difficult aspect was to stay free once outside. After escaping, people found themselves alone and hungry in the middle of occupied territory, hunted down by everyone. Local residents in nearby towns were rewarded with money and food when they turned in escapees.

Look up "Witold Pilecki" on Wikipedia. He is the only man in history to have volunteered to go to a concentration camp. He found it harder to get in than to get out.

Another good reference is 'the way back', a movie about escaping a Siberian concentration camp.

In at least one incredible instance, resistance people managed to smuggle a camera in and out to take pictures.

The height of the smallest and tallest fences of the concentration camps is from 6f 10 inches to 8f 6 inches but the size wont matter because the fences were electrical fences and the fences has 600v at least in them, so any escape attempt on the fences will end would be lethal.

From May 1944 at age 15 till January 1945, after that he and thousands walked a death march to Buchenwald until he was liberated on 11 April 1945 at age 16. (according to his autobiography "Night")

Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. It contained no gas chambers, but some 35,000 prisoners died there, including Anne Frank, between January and mid-April 1945. This camp is where Jews from Germany were sent.

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It contained a large range of nationalities in 1944-1945 as large numbers of Jews were moved there from Auschwitz. It was not, in fact, specifically for German Jews, many of whom were shot in the killing-fields of Latvia and Belarus or gassed at Auschwitz.

Anne Frank was at Auschwitz for approximately 7-8 weeks. According to records, she arrived at Auschwitz at the beginning of September, and was transported to Bergen-Belsen at the end of October.

well the little kids drew and the parents tried to scrape up scraps to make enough dinner for the family. but they didnt have alot of free time. i hope that helps!!!

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there was only one camp where Jewish families were allowed to live together, otherwise they were too tired to do much in their time off.