The History of Auschwitz A Jewish survivor of the Holocaust describes the horror during his days at the extermination camp, Auschwitz:
“The gas chambers operated without interruption, day and night. A pillar of living flame erupted from the chimneys of Auschwitz and was borne aloft along with a dense cloud of smoke. The crematoria, packed beyond their capacity, exploded and one of the chimneys was demolished. However, the labor of killing knew no respite. The (extermination) department at the country house at Bunker 2, which had been neglected since 1942, was reopened. Huge pits were excavated and they burned the corpses there” (ebscohost.com).
During World War II, the goal of the Nazis was to create a “solution to the Jewish question”. The …show more content…
In the early years of Auschwitz, prisoners were fed three meals a day. Those who were physically weak and were assigned less extreme labor assignments were fed roughly 1,300 calories daily, while those who engaged in heavy labor were fed 1,700 calories daily. After a certain amount of time on such a low caloric intake, most prisoners began to experience physical exhaustion, frequently resulting in …show more content…
The original Auschwitz facility held only about 15,000-20,000 prisoners at a time. This is quite a small amount compared to the over 900,000 at a time that it held towards the end of the war. Though Auschwitz will forever be remembered as the site of the most gruesome mass murder in history, the Nazi’s intentions for this camp weren’t nearly as severe as this. The history of Auschwitz isn’t exactly Auschwitz evolved from a detention center for Polish political prisoners, to a mass extermination center for the Jewish race. The events taking place in this camp that took place between 1942-1945 inside of the camp are the difference between Auschwitz being the place at which just another mass homicide in history took place, and being the place at which the greatest genocide in history took
“The gas chambers operated without interruption, day and night. A pillar of living flame erupted from the chimneys of Auschwitz and was borne aloft along with a dense cloud of smoke. The crematoria, packed beyond their capacity, exploded and one of the chimneys was demolished. However, the labor of killing knew no respite. The (extermination) department at the country house at Bunker 2, which had been neglected since 1942, was reopened. Huge pits were excavated and they burned the corpses there” (ebscohost.com).
During World War II, the goal of the Nazis was to create a “solution to the Jewish question”. The …show more content…
In the early years of Auschwitz, prisoners were fed three meals a day. Those who were physically weak and were assigned less extreme labor assignments were fed roughly 1,300 calories daily, while those who engaged in heavy labor were fed 1,700 calories daily. After a certain amount of time on such a low caloric intake, most prisoners began to experience physical exhaustion, frequently resulting in …show more content…
The original Auschwitz facility held only about 15,000-20,000 prisoners at a time. This is quite a small amount compared to the over 900,000 at a time that it held towards the end of the war. Though Auschwitz will forever be remembered as the site of the most gruesome mass murder in history, the Nazi’s intentions for this camp weren’t nearly as severe as this. The history of Auschwitz isn’t exactly Auschwitz evolved from a detention center for Polish political prisoners, to a mass extermination center for the Jewish race. The events taking place in this camp that took place between 1942-1945 inside of the camp are the difference between Auschwitz being the place at which just another mass homicide in history took place, and being the place at which the greatest genocide in history took