Back to category: History Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Concentration camps Located thirty-seven miles west of Krakow, Auschwitz was the camp where Jewish people were killed and worked. This camp , out of all the rest tortured the most people. At the camp there was a a place caled the "Black Wall," this was where the people were executed . In March of of 1941, there was another camp that started to be built. This second camp was called Auschwitz II, or Birkinau. It was located 1.9 miles away from Auschwitz I. Peple that were chosen to come to these camps were expelled from their homes. Their houses were destroyed for the pupose of buildinf Birkinau. Birkinau had nine sub-units. They were separated from each other by electrically charged fences that lines their borders. In August 1942, the womens section at Auscwitz I was moved to Birkinau. Nine hundred and ninty-nine women from Ravensbruck camp and other women from different camps joined them also. Birkinau now had over 6,000 women prisoners being held. In the town Monowitz, another... Posted by: Gabrielle Gooch Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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