1. Aaron Hile Academic English 10 Living Conditions

2. Clothes did not fit prisoners Women with infant children and elderly exterminated upon arrival at Birkenau Approximately four million prisoners were killed here total Prisoners were worked and starved Three meals a day, less than 2,000 calories per day Some young women survived to work in “Canada”, a station where personal possessions were sorted

3. Sobibor was very clean Killed approximately 260,000 Prisoners were permitted some time to themselves Ran for 18 months Largest break out of a concentration camp, only 50 made it out alive and into the forest surrounding the camp.

4. Sobibor exterminated two hundred and sixty thousand Auschwitz exterminated nearly four million They were managed similarly The prisoners were treated worse at Auschwitz Public hangings to intimidate were common at both camps.

5. Auschwitz was much larger than Sobibor. Meals were similarly distributed And death policies were carried out the same way

6. Many similarities and differences with these death camps They both fueled a horrifying turn of events in the early forties The Holocaust needs to be taken as a lesson to never let this happen again