Auschwitz Auschwitz was a death camp in Poland It was the largest death camp in the Holocaust The camp went in operation February 1942 Its primary purpose was murder They took J ews homosexuals ID: 472389
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Entering the Holocaust Slide2
Auschwitz
Auschwitz was a death camp in Poland. It was the largest death camp in the Holocaust. The camp went in operation February 1942. Its primary purpose was murder. They took
J
ews, homosexuals
,
Jehovah’s witnesses, and more. If you were fit to work, you were sent in the camp. If you couldn’t work, you were killed right away. Children of tender (young) years were exterminated right away also. Auschwitz had about 400 deaths a day, in
D
ecember and January. Rudolf
Hoss
was the leader of Auschwitz. They used
Z
yklon
B in gas chambers, which was meant to kill rats.
Lace, William.
The Death Camps.
San Diego: Lucent book. 1998.
P
rint.
Rogasky
,
B
arbara.
Smoke and ashes.
New York: Holiday House
I
nc. 2002. Print.Slide3
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosya:Arbeit_macht_frei_sign,_main_gate_of_the_Auschwitz_I_concentration_camp,_Poland_-_20051127.jpg
This is a picture of the gate you would enter to Auschwitz.Slide4
Buchenwald
Buchenwald was a concentration camp in Germany. It was established on July 16, 1937. Buchenwald was the largest camp on
G
erman soil. The inmates were forced to work 14-16 hours a day. The camp had a total of 238,980 inmates. Soon 9,370 Jews were released. 7-8,000 died in this time. By
J
uly 1938, 2,200 inmates were added from Austria. “Buchenwald”. Holocaust. 2001. Print.Slide5
Crowded bunks in the camp
B
uchenwald.
http://www.eliewieseltattoo.com/tag/boys-of-buchenwald
/Slide6
Dachau
Dachau was a concentration camp located in Dachau, Germany. Dachau opened in 1933. The first group of prisons were brought on March 20, 1933. On April 11, the camp was taken over by the SS. In June 1933, Theodor
Eicke
became leader of the camp. Medical experiments were performed on helpless
prisonsers
. In April 26, 1945 there were 67, 665 people registered in Dachau. More than 1,100 prisons were infected with diseases in the camp.“Dachau”. Holocaust. 2001. print.Slide7
An electrified fence at the camp Dachau.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotos-g315834-Dachau_Bavaria.htmlSlide8
Treblinka
Treblinka was a extermination camp in Poland. The camp was built for operation
Reinhard
. Operation
Reinhard
was a plan to murder Polish Jews in the general government. As many as two million people were sent to Treblinka to be murdered. Franz Stangl became commander of this camp on August 1942. You were forced to work. The jobs they had were tailors, shoemakers, and carpenters.“Treblinka”. Holocaust. 2001. print.Slide9
A small station building in Treblinka.
http://www.deathcamps.org/treblinka/photos.htmlSlide10
Westerbork
Westerbork
was a Transit camp. It was established
O
ctober 1939. The first group of prisoners were brought on October 9, 1939. The transfer of Jews from Amsterdam began on July 1942. Erich Deppner was appointed camp commandant. Soon, he couldn’t take the job and was replaced with an SS officer on September 1, 1942. Barbed wire fences were put around the camp to keep prisoners from getting out.“
Westerbork
”
. Holocaust.
2001. Print.Slide11
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Westerbork.html
Members of the "OD", the Jewish Police in
Westerbork
, direct arriving Dutch Jews in the campSlide12
Mauthausen
Mauthausen
was a concentration camp. It was in Austria and created in March 1938. The first prisoners were brought on August 8. Most people died within a short time. This camp became a killing center for “undesirable political elements”. The estimated number of victims
is 150,000. An
estimation of 197,464 prisoners passed through the Mauthausen camp system between August 1938 and May 1945. At least 95,000 died there. More than 14,000 were Jewish.
“
Mauthausen
”.
Holocaust.
2001. Print.Slide13
Staving prisoners at the camp.
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/austria/mauthausen-concentration-campSlide14
Nuremberg laws
The Nuremberg Laws were two laws which excluded the Jews from German
life. They were the two laws created by the
N
azis. They were declared at the Nazi party in 1935. The two laws were approved in September 15, 1935. The first law was “Reich citizenship law.” This law meant only Germens with related blood could be citizens of the Reich. The second law was “protection of German blood”. “Nuremberg laws” Holocaust.
2002. Print.
Extra credit word 1.Slide15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws
This is a page of the laws issued 1935.