2. INDEX LOCATION THE BUILDING DEATH AND TORTURE BIRKENAU FAMOUS PRISIONERS CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY

3. LOCATION It was near Cracow (Poland), in a place surrounded by forest and reservoirs It was an old headquarter from the Austria-Hungary monarchy It was located in an area of 40 km 2 It started to be built on May 1940

5. THE BUILDING At the begining, the capacity of the building was 7000 men, but it was extended to 18000 It was surrounded by two barbed wire of high voltage In the principal door, there was a poster that said “Work shall make you free”

7. DEATH AND TORTURE There were many deaths caused by cold temperatures, exhausting fatigue, and some illnesses such as scurvy or dysentery. They shot at twelve people at the same time Five people were hanged by the executioner This concentration camp was the first to incorporate the gas chamber

8. Auschwitz II - Birkenau It was built on behalf of Heinrich Himmler The Auschwitz II was bigger than the first one It had a capacity of 100.000 people aprox. At the beginning, Birkenau was created as a extermination camp Inside the building, there were crematories, each one with a gas chamber, and they could burn 4756 people

10. THE MOST FAMOUS PRISIONERS IN AUSCHWITZ Anne Frank: was a prisioner of Auschwitz-Birkenau between September and October 1944, then she moved to Bergen-Belsen, where she died of fever Primo Levi : Italian writer of Jewish origin. He was captured and deported to Auschwitz in the winter of 1944. He survived, and wrote “If This Is a Man”, It was a diary of his life in the concentration camp

12. CONCLUSION We think it was something terrible what nazis did with this innocent people. The building was a great construction, but it hadn’t have a good use. Imagine all the money that spent in it, and, if in spite of they used it to create Austwitch, they could gave it to the jews.

13. Bibliography - Fonts Wikipedia Corazones.org/lugares auschwitz.org.pl/ remember.org/camps