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    Auschwitz: a prisoner camp, an industrial camp, and a death camp “…Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habit, his cloth, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often easily loses himself. He will be a man whose life or death can be lightly decided with no sense of human affinity, in the most fortunate of cases, on the basis

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    the demise of millions, and through our presentation, we reflect on a time of darkness. Death Camps or, “Extermination Camps” such as Auschwitz were meant for the indiscriminate and deliberate killing of millions of Jews, Soviets, Gypsies and disabled people. In the beginning, Auschwitz was a labor camp in order to speed the expansion of the camp, until expansion ended in 1943 and Auschwitz became a Death Camp. Auschwitz I, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Auschwitz-Monowitz opened one after the other in 1941-3

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    On the cover, which death camp are the children being held as prisoners? The death camp Auschwitz. Approximately how many children were killed at Auschwitz? Approximately 200,000 children were killed. During which years did the Holocaust take place? Through 1933 through 1945 were the years of the Holocaust Approximately how many people died, in total, during the Holocaust? 11 million people died. What is the Greek translation of the word, “Holocaust?” It means "burnt whole," or complete

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    of cruelty and torture towards people of Jewish descent in a camp known as Auschwitz. In the article “Auschwitz: The Camp of Death”, the main topic that is addressed in the article is the basic layout and cruelty that took place in this camp of cruelty. In the article, the author mentions that the camp in Auschwitz was “[d]ivided into three sections, Auschwitz I . . . Auschwitz II . . . and Auschwitz III” (“ Auschwitz: The Camp of Death”). What this helps the reader understand about Auschwitz is that

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    The six death camps, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau were used to carry out the systematic mass murder of Jews as part of the Final Solution. First in gas vans, and later is gas chambers. Chelmno was the first extermination camp that the Germans established on Polish soil. Murder operations started December 8, 1941, and continued until January 1945. The Jews of the Lodz ghetto were deported to Chelmno, where they were murdered by means of gas vans. When

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    Auschwitz Concentration camp and Death camp was “a place of severe torture”(Auschwitz Concentration and Death Camp 2) and has ¨become a symbol of death in the holocaust¨(Auschwitz Concentration and Death Camp 1). German people treated the jews bad, jews got terrible jobs also over one million unfortunate people died. Guards and Germans treated Jews like they were not human during the time of the holocaust. The Germans or the Nazi would take Jews out of here homes, schools or out on the streets it

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    Holocaust survivors give great insight to the realities of what the life was like within the gates of the Nazi concentration and death camps. Not to say that the research of historians, writers, and professors does not provide pivotal information to the study of the Holocaust; but their research provides secondary sources and accounts. Primary sources for historic moments allows a reader to get into the mind and psyche of the writer who is sharing his or hers experiences. The ability to become one

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    Death Camps Have you ever wondered what the death camps were like in the holocaust? When all of the jews and enemies suffered at the camps. They starved, beating, worked to death, and killed. The holocaust was a awful time for jews and the enemies. Families were split apart and never seen again, men worked hard labor in the camps, mothers lost their children from deaths or just taking away. You were probably wondering what they did at the death camps and what happened in the camps? There were

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    The Ghetto And The death camp In the war of World War two, life was hard when the Germans attack Denmark and was planning to liquidate the Ghetto. I will be comparing a poem to a story. The two people i'll be comparing and contrast Cristiana Chiger and Pavel Friedmann. Both people tried escape from the germans and death. Sadly the only place they could go was the sewer, but Pavel didn’t make it and was sent to death camp where he started his poem. On the other hand Cristiana made it to the sewer

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    concentration camps caused despair among its prisoners.Mr. Wiesel tells about the treatment in death camps in his book Night by Elie Wiesel. He faced starvation, physical, and mental abuse. In 1944, Wiesel and his family were deported from Hungary. He lost everything including his family, religion, identity, and faith in humanity. Wiesel and his father were sent to Birkenau where they were held, but were later moved to a different death camp. His mother and sister perished in the death camps.

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