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1 Auschwitz By Kim Conners and Cari Codino Shoes that were taken off the dead body’s Bunks were prisoners slept http://z.about.com/d/history1900s/1/0/- /B/auschwitz19.jpg http://www.annefrankguide.com/en- GB/content/gevangenen-auschwitz.jpg

2 When, Where, Who March 1942, trains carried Jews by the thousands Oswiecim, Poland SS officers also known as Nazis Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals, Sinti Roma, later the gypsies http://bluegrassbulletin.typepad.com/

3 What Happened? Between 1.3 and 1.5 million people murdered in gas chambers Over 90% were Jews Other 10% were made up of Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Sinti Roma, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals and others http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.scrapbookpages.

4 Facts Split up into three major complexes Auschwitz I, main Camp or Stammlager Auschwitz II, or Brikenau Established on October 8, 1941 Was the extermination complex Auschwitz III, or Monowitz, established on May 31, 1942 as a work camp http://www8.officinedigitali.it/binary

5 Facts Camp population 10,900 Developed reputation- torture and mass shooting February 1943 section was established for Gypsies Capacity of Crematoria was 4,420 people http://www.stbrendanschool.com/WWII/Holocaust

6 Auschwitz Mass graves at Auschwitz Prisoners at forced labor in the Siemens factory. Auschwitz camp, Poland, 1940-1944. http://www.hollow- hill.com/sabina/images/auschwitz-corpses.jpg http://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/photo/lc/image/19/19319a.jpg

7 Prisoners at Auschwitz A picture taken just after the liberation of Auschwitz- Birkenau by the Soviet army in January 1945, shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing at the camp. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01243/auschwitz_1243899c.jp g

8 Bibliography “Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance project.”Web.3 Dec 2009.. The forgotten camps,. “Auschwitz-Birkenau.”Jewish virtual library. The american –israeli cooperateive enterprise,web.3 Dec 2009. Zimmeram, John C. "Body Disposal at Auschwitz." Auschwitz the Death Camp. 15/10/1999. Webmaster @ Holocaust.Hist.org, Web. 8 Dec 2009..


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