Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Essential Question:
What were Concentration Camps?

WHAT EXACTLY WERE CONCENTRATION CAMPS?

• Refers to a camp where people are confined in harsh conditions
• First camps in Germany were est. after Hitler's appointment as Chancellor
• Concentration camps were found all over Eastern Europe

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MAIN CONCENTRATION CAMPS

• Auschwitz (Poland)
• Bergen-Belsen (Germany)
• Fossenburg (Germany)
• Sobibor (Poland)
• Treblinka (Poland)

AUSCHWITZ

• First held Polish prisoners
• Became the largest site for the murder of Jews in 1942
• More than 1,100,000 men, women and children died there
• Was a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust
• Established in 1940 by Germans, largest death camp

AUSCHWITZ(CONTINUED)

• Included three main camps, all prisoners were forced to work
• Main camp located 37 miles west of Krakow
• Established near Owiecim in an abandoned Polish army barracks
• Dreadful living conditions
• Overcrowding, diseases, shortage of water, starvation

AUSCHWITZ II

• Also called Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Largest total prisoner population
• Included sections for women,men,gypsies,and Jewish families
• During Summer-Autumn 1941, Zyklon B gas was created
• Zyklon B was used in the gas chambers 

AUSCHWITZ III

• Also called Buna or Monowitz
• Established in October 1942
• Prisoners assigned to work at a synthetic rubber factory
• Also had a Labor Education Camp for non-Jews that violated German laws
• Forced labor camp

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• "Ushmm.org" United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2013
• "Projectaladin.org" Holocaust: A Call to Conscience, 2009
• "En.auschwitz.org" Museum Auschwitz, 1999-2014
• "Jewishvirtuallibrary.org" American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, 2014
• "fcit.usf.edu" A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust, 2005

Bibliography

• Photos retrieved from haikudeck.com