Auschwitz

AUSCHWITZ


The Auschwitz (Auschwitz-Birkenau) death camp was the site of the most killings of European Jews during the Holocaust. In 1941, 850 ill and malnourished Jews were killed in an experimental gassing there, and after its success, the Nazis started using this method as a daily routine. An estimated three million people were killed at Auschwitz through gassing, starvation, shooting, burning, and other methods. 9 out of 10 prisoners were Jews, but there were also large numbers of Soviet and other nations’ POW’s, gypsies, homosexuals, and others sent there. According to sources, Adolf Hitler personally ordered the mass executions at Auschwitz while visiting there once in 1940.

Children were brought to the camp as well, but usually they didn’t stay long. They were often killed as soon as they arrived, and children born inside the camp were killed on the spot. Some children ended up being the “patients” of Nazi doctors and subjects in their horrible e...