Concentration camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau killed millions of Jews during the Holocaust mainly through execution ("Auschwitz-Birkenau: History and Overview"). Most Jews were killed due to starvation and miserable amounts of labor ("Auschwitz-Birkenau: Buna Subcamp"). As the war came to an end, an estimate of 10,000 prisoners were killed every day ("Eli Wiesel"). A majority of these prisoners were sent to gas chambers to be gassed to death ("Auschwitz-Birkenau: History and Overview"). Prisoners who did not qualify to pass selections were also sent to be gassed ("Auschwitz-Birkenau: Buna Subcamp"). Those who were put into crematoriums were killed within twenty minutes ("Auschwitz-Birkenau: History and Overview"). The ill and weak were left
