By, Breann westfall,Haley Edens,Cassie lester,Maria Sena

Auschwitz: The concentration camp at Auschwitz had a total camp area of 40 sq kilometers. The Nazis fit approximately 800 to 1,000 people in each barrack The camp was divided into three sections: Auschwitz 1, Auschwitz 2 and Auschwitz 3.

Auschwitz  Auschwitz was a concentration camp for the Jews. The Jews were held there because the Germans thought the Jews were “inferior” which meant that they were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.  To watch over and monitor the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps during the war years.

Where it started The German concentration camp and later called Auschwitz was established on May 20,1940 People started to get deported to this camp in 1942 As years went by more and more Jews came to this camp the Germans started to add different things as years went by.

What the Germans added to this camp when years have gone by was:  They started to add 2 provisional gas chambers to suffocate the Jews.  Then they also came up with the idea to build a furnace to burn the corpses.  A couple of years later they built a building called Crematorium that contained the gas chambers and the furnaces to kill the Jews.  There ended up being 5 of these gas chambers and furnaces in the Crematorium building to kill the Jews.

Auschwitz The camp was occupied from From the prisoners were mainly German nationals detained for political reasons In after a lot of Jews were added, the camp was used for all sorts of Jews from every nation From the camp was used as a prison for SS officers awaiting trial. After 1948 the German population were expelled form Czechoslovakia. In 1960, the camp was beginning to end.

How did it end? The SS tried to destroy the evidence of the gassings, and most of the prisoners still at Auschwitz were sent on a forced march westwards to Gross-Rosen in the depths of winter. Conditions were appalling, and the march is often referred to as a death march. The camp was liberated by the Soviet Army on 27 January They were greeted by about 7,500 prisoners who had been left behind.

In the end More than 15,000 died during the death marches from Auschwitz. On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. It is estimated that at minimum 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945; of these, at least 1.1 million were murdered