Some other way to deal with the prisoners had to be found, especially since .
their numbers were increasing with every arrival. .
The Nazis then discovered Zyklon B. It was a very effective gas. Since they were then able to kill more efficiently, .
they had to find a more efficient means of disposing of the bodies. Soon, mass crematoriums were erected, capable .
of burning 2,000 bodies in a single day. .
Upon arrival at camp, doctors made selections as to who would live and perform slave labor. The others would be .
gassed. Two lines would be formed, one going in the direction of the camp, and the other leading toward the 'shower .
rooms'. .
Those not selected for the 'life' line were told that they would be going to the showers for 'delousing'. They were .
made to fold their clothes neatly and put them in piles and march, naked, to the 'showers'. Those rooms were .
equipped with fake shower heads and benches and everything, but none of them worked. The Jews would be herded .
into these rooms and the doors would lock. Then Vents in the ceiling would open and granules of Zyklon B would .
be released. Within 15 minutes, they would all be dead. .
Thirty minutes after they died, they would open the doors and let it air out for two or three hours. Then they would .
send in slaves to remove the bodies, taking them to the crematorium. .
The prisoners chosen for the 'life' line had the worst fate though. The conditions at Auschwitz were unthinkable. .
Prisoners slept 6 people to a bunk, which was made for two. These bunks rose 6 feet high, sometimes with so much .
weight on the tops of them, they would collapse and kill all them ones underneath while they slept. Sleep was .
impossible for most though, beds were hard plank boards, over crowded and infested with lice, ticks and bed bugs. .
The rats were so bad that if a prisoners died in the middle of the night, the rats would have eaten him to the point .
where recognition was impossible.
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Auschwitz Located thirty seven miles west of Krakow , Auschwitz was the camp where Jewish people were killed and were worked to death . ... The prisoners at Auschwitz mainly consisted of Jews . ... The best known doctor at Auschwitz was Josef Mangele . ... Auschwitz was made up of three parts : first Auschwitz was the main concentration camp and also the first and oldest . ... Birkenau was the largest part of the Auschwitz camp . ...
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Recently, there has been an ongoing debate on whether or not Auschwitz should be maintained. To our readers who may not know, Auschwitz was the biggest Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust, consisting of 48 smaller concentration, extermination, and labour camps it comprised 3 large camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and a work camp called Auschwitz III-Monowitz. ... Even with other countries helping however, Poland still funds 94% of the total funding of Auschwitz (again according to the BBC), so cost is still an issue. ... Former Auschwitz inmate Wladyslaw Bartoszewski made ...
One of the most famous camps, would be Auschwitz. ... In his novel, he wrote about Auschwitz being "the worst time of his life.... When arriving to Auschwitz, the unloading of rail transports of prisoners took place on a ramp beside the camp in the prison huts of Auschwitz I. ... They would be given their "souvenir" of their stay at Auschwitz. ... Although there were many different camps at the Auschwitz grounds, the main one is Auschwitz I. ...
It was a sign that hung over the gates of Auschwitz. ... The inmates of Auschwitz hardly had clothes. ... The doctors of Auschwitz played a crucial role. ... Resistance was almost impossible in Auschwitz. ... He came to Auschwitz in 1941. ...
Levi was a twenty four year old chemist when he arrived in Auschwitz. ... However, he survived eleven months in Auschwitz. ... However, it could be interpreted that he lost himself in Auschwitz. ... Primo Levi speaks of Auschwitz with the mentality of a prisoner. ... Perhaps Levi survived Auschwitz physically but not mentally. ...
Over the years Auschwitz began to expand into three separate parts. ... On March 1941, Himmler ordered the construction of Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, which was a larger section of the camp, 1.9 miles from Auschwitz I (Museum 1). Birkenau held up to 100,000 prisoners (Auschwitz) and was known as the most cruel and heartless section of Auschwitz. ... As soon as the prisoners arrived in Auschwitz they went through a process known as selection. ... Mengele voluntarily went to Auschwitz to conduct medical experiments, primarily on twins (Auschwitz). ...
That is what Auschwitz is all about. ... The people at Auschwitz had to deal with many hygiene problems. ... All of these terror took place in Block 10 of Auschwitz. ... The gas used was Zyklon B (Auschwitz, pg.23). ... Mengele or of Auschwitz only four out of ten people had. ...
