AUSCHWITZ

BACKGROUND

• Hitler became chancellor in 1933
• Nuremberg laws and ghettos
• Extermination and concentration camps

EVENT

• Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, Auschwitz III
• Gas chambers, crematoriums, mass shootings
• 400 Jewish non-gas deaths a day
• 80% selected for immediate at Birkenau one winter
• 180 people per barrack for 5 years

PERCENT OF JEWS SELECTED FOR IMMEDIATE DEATH

IMPACT

• 1,100,000 (1.1 million) deaths
• 10% of Holocaust deaths
• Religion endangered
• Human migration

CONCLUSIONS

• Background
• Event
• Impact

WORKS CITED

• “Auschwitz.” Britannica School. Encyclopedia Britannica. 2015. School.eb.com. 3 March 2015
• “Auschwitz.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 20 June 2014. ushmm.org. 2 March 2015.
• “The Nazifacation of Germany.” A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust. University of South Florida. 2005. fcit.coedu.usf.edu. 3 March 2015
• Rogasky, Barbara. Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust. New York: Holiday House, 1988.