Concentration Camps

Concentration Camps

Imagine being forced by total strangers, no different than yourself, to leave your home and everything in it behind. You are then pushed onto a train packed with other people. After a long train ride you are taken off the train and the women and children are put in one group. The people who can perform the tasks that these strangers need done are put into another group. The women and children who were told that they would be given a shower are never to be seen again. Two of these camps are Auschwitz and Dachau. There the SS officers treated these poor people inhumanly.
Auschwitz is located in Oswiecim, Poland it was established on May 26, 1940. The Auschwitz complex was divided into three major camps: Auschwitz I, main camp or Stammlager; Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, established on October 8, 1941 as a 'Vernichtungslager'(extermination camp); Auschwitz III or Monowitz, established on May 31, 1942 as an 'Arbeitslager' or work cam...