Auschwitz Research
by Asahel Tinoco
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Auschwits-Birkenau was the largest concentration camp located in Poland.It was originally used as a detention center for political officers but was later used as an extermination camp. The main method of killing off the Jews was by gassing them, if they were not gassed then they were either used in medical experiments or were forced to do slave labor. At least 144 were know that escaped the camp alive. Around 65,000 survived at the end, 1.6 million were murdered and 11 million were killed in total in Auschwitz.
Dr. Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele was an SS physician. He was Infamous for his gruesome medical experiments done to the Jews at Auschwitz. He also decided who got to worked in the camps, who got gassed, and also who got to be his guinea pigs.
Sonderkommando
The "Sonderkommando" was a revolt that happened on October 1944. The resistance within the camp was large enough that the physical resistance managed to destroy the crematorium and it was never used again.
Children Survivors
600 children survivors are showing the tattoos that they had printed on them at the Auschwits camp.
Auschwitz I
Auschwitz I was used as a detention center for political officers. There was around 135 thousand people in the camp. In about 5 years, detention turned to an extermination camp. It was the main sector held around 16 thousands prisoners, not all of them were Jews. The main sector also was home to the political dept. and also the prison labor. The camp always had extensions built to it and eventually had Auschwits-Birkenau buit own to it.
Witold Pilecki
Witold Pilecki, a polish soldier, volunteered to be imprisoned at the Auschwitz camp. The reason for this is because he wanted to get information on the horror of the events happening at the camp. He later escaped and told the rest of the world what he has seen.
Stanis Lezcyznska
Stanis Lezcyznska was a polish midwife who helped deliver more than 3,000 babies at the camp. However her deeds were not help so enough so she was incinerated.
Salamo Arouch
Salamo Arouch was a Jewish boxer who boxed other prisoners to entertain the Nazi party. If he were to lose he was killed but in this case he won every match they gave him for the two years he was in the camp. His nickname was "The Ballet Dancer". After two long years in the camp fighting for his life, they finally liberated the camp along with all the other prisoners. He died at the age of 86 from a stroke.
Life At Both Camps
Life at the camp wasn't like a normal jail center. They would make you do harsh labor work everyday. Some work that they would make you do is build a second story on a single story building. The living conditions were horrible , beds were not provided so you would have to sleep on straw stuffed beds. The only heat that was available was the heat from a coal-tile stoves. The area inside a cell was so small that they had to sleep on their sides just so that everyone can fit. Sanitation was a huge problem, there were no facilities to clean up after yourself. This attracted lice, rats and made the area damp, so it had a bad aura. Water was located in kitchen but the area was limited to the officers only. Later on they gave them a chance to bath at the bath house but it would be short and hot.