The Holocaust: Auschwitz

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The HolocaustAuschwitz

• By Jackie White

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Background Information

• Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror.
• The name came from the town of Auschwitz.
• The first prisoners were Polish political
  prisoners.
• Auschwitzs annex could hold 100,000 prisoners of
  war.

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Background Information

• There were 3 Auschwitzs
• Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II Birkenau, and
  Auschwitz III Buna-Monowitz
• Prisoners included men, women, children
• Prisoners were liberated on January 27, 1945.

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Normal Day

• 400 Wake up
• Morning Roll Call
• Move to labor commanders
• Work
• Return to camp
• Evening Roll Call
• Dinner
• 900 Bedtime

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Work

• In camp positions
• Writer
• Doctor
• Handicrafts
• Out camp positions
• Building Street
• Train
• River
• Quarry

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Nutrition

• Morning
• 1/2 liter of unsweeted coffee or tea
• Noon
• 3/4 liter tasteless soup
• Evening
• 300 g bread with 25 g sausage or 35 g margarine,
  one spoon jam or cheese.

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The Crematoria

• The crematory functioned as a homicidal gas
  chamber and incineration annihilating a total of
  approximately 400,000 people, most of them Jewish
  women, children and old men.

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The Crematoria

• But the well-constructed crematoria fell far
  behind at a number of camps, and especially at
  Auschwitz in 1944.

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The Crematoria

• Pit burning became a method of corpse disposal.
  The pits had indentations at one end for fat
  drainage. The stokers poured oil, alcohol, and
  quantities of boiling fat on bodies.

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Extermination

• Methods
• Gas Chambers
• Work Exhaustion
• Hunger
• Illness
• Shootings
• Gallows
• Punishments

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Extermination