Auschwitz - Nazi Concentration Camp
Auschwitz - Nazi Concentration CampLocated thirty-seven miles west of Krakow, Auschwitz was the
camp where Jewish people were killed and worked. This camp , out of
all the rest tortured the most people. At the camp there was a a place
caled the "Black Wall," this was where the people were executed . In
March of of 1941, there was another camp that started to be built.
This second camp was called Auschwitz II, or Birkinau. It was located
1.9 miles away from Auschwitz I. Peple that were chosen to come to
these camps were expelled from their homes. Their houses were
destroyed for the pupose of buildinf Birkinau. Birkinau had nine
sub-units. They were separated from each other by electrically charged
fences that lines their borders. In August 1942, the womens section at
Auscwitz I was moved to Birkinau. Nine hundred and ninty-nine women
from Ravensbruck camp and other women from different camps joined them
also. Birkinau now had over 6,000 women prisoners being held. In the
town Monowitz, another camp was being built. This camp was called
auschwitz III, or Buna-Monowitz. Other camps that were located close
to Monowitz were moved to Buna-Monowitz. The population of Bikinau was
the most densly populated out of all the camps. It also had the most
cruel and and bad conditions of all the camps in the complex. The
prisoners at Birkinau mostly consisted of Jews, Poles, and Germans.
There were a number of Gypsy and Czech Jew family camps located at
Birkinau for a period of time also. In Birkinau, the gas chambers and
the creamatoria, where the bodies were burned operated at auschwitz I.
Birkinau and all the other sub-camps were mostly forced labor camps.
The most recognized of the labor camps are, Budy, Czechowitz,
Glenwitz, Rajsko, and Furstenarube. The prisoners here were worked to
the piont of death. Trains transported people to the camps, and
violently forced them off the train. All of the people's property was
left on the train also. They prisoners were sent into two different
lines, one for women and the other for men. The lines moved into the
place were a procedure called Selektion took place. The ones who could
work were not killed ot this time, but the women, children, and others
that couldn't work were gased. The prisoners that were to work, had
their clothes taken, heads shaved, got sterilized, and were given
black and white striped clothes to wear. In the forced labor camps,
the average life time was only a few months. Some of the prisoners
that couldn't react or move became what was known as Muselmann. A
dreaded part of camps was the Appell, or roll call. In this, prisoners
were sent...
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