Auschwitz According To Smoke And Ashes By Barbara Rogasky

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The Holocaust was an awful part of history during 1941-1945. There were concentration camp, some of the really huge ones were, Chelmno, Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Maidanek. One that is really noticeable is Auschwitz. This is the most known camp. There were at least 1,100,000 Jews that died. That is not counting all of the homosexuals, gypsies, etc. The Holocaust comes to people's mind and gives people chills. According to Smoke and Ashes by Barbara Rogasky, “the exact number of victims killed at each camp will never be known, because the SS did not record the individual people who went straight from train to gas chamber.”

In Auschwitz there was a gas chamber. People would be brought to Auschwitz and go straight to the gas

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