Auschwitz Camp Essay

Auschwitz is a system of concentration/death camps that were opened in 1940, and maintained by the Nazi soldiers (History). It is located in southern Poland. The camp was originally used to hold political prisoners, but later on it was converted into an extermination camp for the Jewish people, and other enemies of the Nazi’s. Also, when the camp was operational, torturous medical experiments were being done to the prisoners of the camp. This camp is the most known concentration camp, and it is also known well for being the deadliest of all the camps.
Auschwitz I was the main camp of the three different camps in the Auschwitz system, and was the first one built. Before the camp split this was the one and only Auschwitz camp, but it became difficult to run such a big camp so it was split into three camps. This camp when in operation held around 16,000 people with 10,000 of them being Jewish (KL …show more content…
Each barrack held anywhere from 800 to 1000 people. During the night since there was barely any room, people were forced to have extremities piled on one another to be able to fit into a reasonably comfortable position. The ones who couldn’t get comfortable pushed and kicked at the other people to get just a few more inches of space to rest in. Prisoners tried to get to sleep reasonably quickly while in camp since they had to be up at 3am for the next day’s roll call (Life in the Camp) (Nyiszli, Auschwitz A Doctors Eyewitness Account).
On January 20th of 1942 the final plan for the extermination of 11 million Jews was laid out. The plan stated that some of the population would be worked to death and the remaining population would be killed in the gas chambers or shot by various firing squads. Later that year though, the firing squads were replaced at the main camps, including Auschwitz, for more productive methods for the mass killings (The Killing