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Auschwitz: Terror, Genocide, And The Holocaust

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“Today, the word Auschwitz has become synonymous with terror, genocide, and The Holocaust.” (Auschwitz- Birkenau: History and Review). Auschwitz was the biggest and most disastrous camp in the Holocaust. The jews, and many other racial groups were sent to these concentration camps just for simply not being good enough for Hitler. Auschwitz had three death camps, and at each of them it was just as brutal as it sounds. Death had taken over these camps, and if these prisoners were not killed they just had the life taken out of them. As the holocaust got worse ,so did the camps and Auschwitz had the highest death toll leading it to be the biggest and most horrific camp.
Auschwitz was first built in on the German-Polish border and was serving as …show more content…

There was no such thing as a bed it was just a piece of wood which was made for one person to sleep but each “bink” held around four people. Mattresses were made of straws and often fell apart. Roofs were leaking, lice and mice became a very big problem to diseases occuring. Many diseases starting going through the camp because one person would get it and since they were all so close, the diseases traveled fast. Also, “The prisoners also had limited opportunities for bathing. Additionally, they had to undress in their own barracks before doing so and, regardless of the weather, walk naked to the bathhouse,” (Life in the Camp 2). This created two problems, leading to diseases within the camp. Fist of all, the prisoners never bathed, therefore creating dirt everywhere and unsanitary living conditions. To add to that, they had to walk naked in any weather conditions causing colds, hypothermia, and with the unsanitariness of the people diseases were everywhere. As bad as the living conditions were, the working conditions seemed to be a lot …show more content…

The labor at Auschwitz was made to kill people slowly and painfully. Since so many people had to go to war, prisoners got stuck doing the labor, because it became short. The work included help building the camp, help clear war damage and road repairs. Some others worked in factories , and others had to take the dead bodies into the crematorium. SOme prisoners were beaten to death where others just died because they were worked to death. The working conditions were also unsanitary because the factories were dirty and they worked in any weather conditions. The main idea of Auschwitz was to kill all the jews and they did anything to make that

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Auschwitz, specifically the branch Auschwitz-Birkenau, was the largest of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. A concentration camp was a place where diverse groups of people were imprisoned and slowly eliminated due to intentionally harmful circumstances, making survival unfeasible. A direct extermination center was a place where Jews and other groups of victims were exterminated, through the use of gas chambers. Most of the prisoners who were sent to the Auschwitz complex died in Birkenau. The two perspectives of Auschwitz-Birkenau that I will be analyzing are a diary entry from Helga Weiss, a Holocaust survivor and the other from a website created by the Memorial and Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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