Buchenwald


 * Buchenwald

Nate U.**


 * was a concentration camp built in 1945 by the [|prisoners] themselves.[[image:prisoners.jpg width="222" height="139" align="left"]]


 * Sarah H.**


 * 240,000 prisoners were held at the camp since it opened.
 * Buchenwald first opened for male prisoners in July 1937.
 * Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps.
 * many people on the march died of starvation or exhaustion.
 * Jews were killed in gas chambers or were burned.
 * they had classifying triangular badges.
 * they would have identification numbers to tell who they were.
 * slave laborers died from being overwork, diseases, and violence.
 * 3 million people have died from gas chambers.
 * the march was brutal and long.
 * it left people very exhausted.
 * they came from Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen.
 * they arrived in Buchenwald in January 1945.
 * hygiene was a big issue that caused most people to die.
 * they marched in cold nasty weather.
 * most of the prisoners worked in factories.
 * prisoners who were weak were either burned, killed in gas chambers, or phenol injection.
 * the prisoners had to wear the black and white striped pants with the matching jacket.
 * mostly more men in the camps then women.