Auschwitz Research
By Thomas Curry
Auschiwz 1
- Housed 16 thousand prisoners
- Location of the local SS comand office
- Mainly a labor camp, prisoners did hard labor every day
- Mainly produced ammunition and war supplies for the Germans
Auschwitz 2
- Auschwitz 2 was also known as Birkenau
- Around 1 million prisoners where killed in this camp
- The people mainly killed here where Jews, gypsies, and Soviet POW's
- 90% of all deaths in Auschwitz happened in Auschwitz 2