Auschwitz 1.1 million Jews were killed in Auschwitz alone. Just think about how many Jews would have been killed if we didn’t intrude. The information I have is important to hear so that: we can be informed, inform others, and let it never happen again. In this essay you will learn about their daily meals, the statistics, and how the selections worked. The food in Auschwitz on a day to day basis consisted of three meals. Breakfast, they received half a liter of what they called “coffee.” Instead it was boiled water with a grain-based coffee substitute. For their “lunch” they had soup. The soup consisted of potatoes, rutabaga, and small amounts of groats, rye flour, and Avo food extract. The soup was foul tasting or watery, and only four times a week did they get a little meat with it. They received three-quarters of a …show more content…
Jewish transports took place on three railroad unloading platforms, or ramps. SS doctors made most of the decisions about who was qualified for labor, and who was killed immediately. Beginning in the second half of 1941, mostly among the prisoners in the “rewir” or camp hospital, SS doctors began carrying out the selection of Auschwitz prisoners, during which they put to death those prisoners they regarded as unfit for labor because of terminal exhaustion or sickness. They killed these prisoners by dangerous injections of phenol to the heart, or sent them to the gas chamber. This practice was halted in the spring of 1943. Shortly afterwards, it was restored, but only for Jewish prisoners. The selection on the ramps was: families were divided and all the people were lined up in two columns. The men and older boys were in one column, and the women and children of both sexes in the other. Next, the people were led to the camp doctors. They judged the people standing before them on sight, and sometimes eliciting a brief declaration as to their age and occupation decided whether they would live or