Auschwitz

Derrik B.**
 * Auschwitz
 * Largest concentration camp
 * There were 3 main camps
 * Auschwitz I
 * Auschwitz I was the main camp
 * The camp was about 22 square miles long
 * The first prisoners at Auschwitz were transfered from Sachsenhausen
 * The best known of the physicians was Dr. Josef Mengele
 * 37 miles west of Krakow, is where they are located
 * One of the commanders was the SS lieutenant Colonel Arthur Liebenschel
 * Auschwitz II
 * Construction began in October of 1941
 * It had the largest total prisoners population
 * SS guards patrolled Auschwitz II
 * There were facilities for a killing center
 * Auschwitz III
 * It was established in October 1942
 * From May 1941 until October 1942, the SS transported prisoners from Auschwitz I to the " Buna Detachment"
 * Prisoners deployed at Buna, lived at Auschwitz III
 * Subcamps
 * Between 1942 and 1944 the SS established 39 subcamps a t Auschwitz
 * Some subcamps were located in Marauia
 * Auschwitz inmates were employed on huge farms
 * They also had to work in coal mines, stone quarries, and Fisheries
 * Well known inmates
 * Anne Frank
 * Elie Wiesel
 * Berrard offer
 * Time line
 * Spring 1940. First prisoners from Dachau arrive in Auschwitz and start building the concentration camp.

Maxwell P.



 * One of the largest concentration camp
 * 3 main camps
 * Auschwitz I
 * Auschwitz II
 * Auschwitz III
 * Background info on Auschwitz
 * Auschwitz concentration camps were a major part in the Holocaust
 * The number of people killed there is almost impossible to know all numbers are just estimates
 * 90% of death were Jews
 * Auschwitz I was the original camp
 * Served as the administrative center for the whole camp
 * Site of roughly 70,000 deaths, mostly poles, and soviet POW's


 * Auschwitz II (also known as Birkenau)
 * Was an extermination cap
 * An estimate of deaths are 1.1million Jews, 75,000 Polish people, and 19,000 Roma (Gypsies)
 * Auschwitz camps were founded on May 20,1940 lasted until 1945
 * Was under command of Rudolph Hoss
 * The Camp
 * 728 Polish prisoners were the first residents of Auschwitz I
 * At any time the camp held between 13,000-16,000 inmates
 * In 1942 that number reached 20,000
 * Most Jews were inprisoned in Auschwitz II
 * Due to harsh work requirments, combined with poor nutrition and hygiene, led to hight death rates among prisoners
 * Any prisoner who broke rules were sent for punishment or sent to standing cells
 * Standing cells were 1.5 meters square
 * There were 4 men to a cell n they could do nothing but stand due to the size of the cell
 * They also had starvation cells were they got no food or water until they were dead
 * Also had "Death Cells", which was a tiny room that had a tiny window, eventually the prisoner would run out of oxygen and die
 * They were also hung by there hands which were tied be hind there back, sometimes they hung there for hours even days!!
 * On September 1941 they began testing [|Gas Chambers]
 * [[image:gas_chamer.jpeg width="201" height="138"]]
 * Once testing with chambers were a success they were used from 1941-1942
 * About 60,000 were killed in chambers**After the War**
 * After the war the camp served through most of 1945 as an or NKVD prison
 * Over several years the camp remained in a state of disrepair
 * Polish government restored Auschwitz I into a museum
 * Museum honors the victims of Nazism
 * The rest of the camp was not restored
 * The museum has several elements from the original Auschwitz I
 * An example is the restored gas chambers


 * Museum also has shoes from many men, women, and children on display

Tyler Y.**
 * Auschwitz

Back Round on Auschwitz
 * Biggest concentration camp
 * 3 main camps
 * one is an extention for a killing unit
 * nazi's kept personal belongings of dead jews
 * Auschwitz 1 and 2 were reunited
 * Auschwitz 3 was renamed Monowitz

Leaders of Auschwitz
 * lieutenant Coloel Rudolf Hoess
 * Lieutenant Coloel Arthur Liebehenschel
 * Major Richard Baer
 * Lieutenant Colonel Fiedrich Hartjenstein
 * Captin Josef Kremer
 * Captin Heinrich Schwarz

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