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I wanted to scream but I didn?t want to get hurt. drew the line at the m urders, but likewise, few (H ISTORY, ) . Inside the cam p was anti-Nazi Surviving prisoners left in Auschwitz were
I just did what they told m e. M y m other people were found to disapprove it actively and activists, politicians, scientific com m unities, transporter or m arched to cam ps within
dragged m e to the gas cham bers. They m ade extend a helping hand to the Jews. and m ore. Germ any. W ithout any effort, m any prisoners
m e undress. The last peaceful m om ents I gave in to starvation, cold, exhaustion, or shot
Series of experim ents were held during this At the peak of the H olocaust, Auschwitz had
rem em ber is being with the friends I had m ade for not keeping up. Jewish prisoners were sent
tim e. Som e of them being gas cham bers, slave m any different divisions. The first cam p,
there at the death cam ps. M ost of us didn?t to a concentration cam p at Bergen-Belsen.
labor, or barbaric m etal experim ents. But where Auschwitz 1, had 15,000-20,000 political
know about the gassing. Bergen-Belsen is not known as one of the
does Auschwitz com e in? prisoners, and were welcom ed with an
W e were all exhausted or worst cam ps, but in the final m onths of W W 2,
Auschwitz was one of the m ost infam ous lettering -- ?W ork m akes you free?.
in shock of the horror. "It is a hor r ibl e brutal death cam ps. During The second cam p, Auschwitz 2, was pinpointed conditions got worse. British troops cam e
There was no m em ory of through the cam ps on April 15th, 1945 and
W W 2 (W orld W ar 2), m ore than in the village of Birkenau. It was constructed in
us. W e were deem ed, t hing t hat a r ace of 1 m illion people lost their lives in 1941 ordered by H einrich H im m ler, found 10,000 unburied corpses and 60,000
?valueless?. Auschwitz. com m ander of the SS (Schutzstaffel). The SS sick prisoners and dying prisoners. They were
peopl e shoul d be unfed and they were cram m ed into barracks.
The H olocaust was one of operated all Nazi concentration and death
Adolf H itler, the legal official of
the m ost tragic, gruesom e, at t empt ed t o be Germ any input a policy called cam ps. Out of all the cam ps, Sur vi vor s

and deadly events in the ?Final Solution?. H itler was Birkenau was the biggest
history. The H olocaust bl ot t ed out of t he not only determ ined to rid of holding 90,000 prisoners. It A H olocaust
resulted in a m ass killing, Jews in Germ any and other held m any bath houses (gas survivor, Freddie
and there was m any t he"societ y in which cham bers) and m any people Knoller says,
countries that belonged to ?Bergen-Belsen
tragedies and losses of were sadly, gassed to death.
t hey had been bor n." Germ any, but he subjected them was the last cam p
fam ily m em bers and even Crem atory ovens were used to
to dehum anize them and take on we went to and it
friends. The Nazis killed random acts of violence. H e burn people to death.
m ore than 10 m illion -Winst on Chur chil l was the worst.
suggested that the Jews would be M ost of the Auschwitz victim s There was one
people during this tim e, 6
?taken care of? by elim inating passed in Birkenau. Over 40 tap with water
m illion of those being
every Jew in his dom ain. H e also killed artists, sm aller facilities called but we had no
Jews.
educators, gypsies, com m unists, hom osexuals, subcam ps could be found food. I rem em ber
and m entally and physically handicapped dotted around the landscape. digging around
The H i stor y of the H ol ocaust people. They were served as slave in the ground
labor cam ps. The largest roots to eat and
Em otions and ideas that were behind the To finalize his m ission, H itler dem anded that subcam p, M onowitz
H olocaust and the hatred of Jews weren?t new, death cam ps were to be built. (Death cam ps are (otherwise known as people around

they weren?t particularly Germ an either. The different from concentration cam ps) Death Auschwitz 3) began in 1942 and What hol ocaust pr i soner s l ooked l i ke m e who
Nazis were the cam ps existed purely for one reason; held 10,000 prisoners. af t er t hey have been abused collapsed and died
inheritors of century that was killing Jews and other with hunger.
long Jew-hatred. W hen ?Undesirables?. Cannibalism was rife. I would never do that
the Nazis started to The Fal l of the H ol ocaust but I saw it. I still rem em ber the m om ent we
were liberated, one m onth after we arrived. I
carry out their plan of H i stor y of Auschw i tz The end of the H olocaust began when, ?Allied
the H olocaust, they forces began to close in on Germ any in 1944?. was lying on m y bunk and som ebody shouted,
Auschwitz was originally a ?Look, there are Jeeps outside?. I went out and
found that in all the Project Reinhardt was destroyed. ?A prisoner
concentration cam p, ?to be used as a saw British soldiers com ing into the cam p. It
countries they
Pr i soner s ar r i ve at a detention center for the m any Polish work-gang called the Blobel Com m ando began was so wonderful.? Knoller is now 93 years
controlled, there was concent r at i on camp i n 1943 i n digging up and burning the bodies of those
public support in every what seems l i ke a cr ammed citizens arrested after Germ any killed by the Einsatzgruppen.? (BBC, ) old and lives in Totteridge, London.
annexed the country in 1939?
country. M any people