Auschwitz The Nazi Concentration Camp

Auschwitz the Nazi Concentration Camp

AUSCHWITZ
THE NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP

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 place called the
"Black Wall," this was where the people were executed . In March 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. People that were chosen to come to these camps were expelled from their homes. Their
houses were destroyed for the purpose of building 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 ninety-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 camp w!
as being built. This camp was called Auschwitz III, or Buna-Monowitz. Other camps that were located
close to Monowitz were moved to Buna-Monowitz. The population of Birknau was the most densly
populated out of all the camps. It also had the most cruel and bad conditions of all the camps in the
complex. The prisoners at Birkinau mostly consisted of Jews, Poles , and Germans. There were a number
of Gypsy and C...

Auschwitz The Nazi Concentration Camp

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