Auschwitz- birkenau

Auschwitz-birkenau

by Jacob

Location

• Auschwitz is located in the southern part of Poland near the city of Krakow

Who was sent to Auschwitz

• The people who where sent to Auschwitz where Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, asocials, criminals, and prisoners

What type of camp was it

• It was a very hard labor camp but it was mostly a death camp

What where the conditions

• the conditions at Auschwitz where very cold during the night, winter and fall. But during the day, spring and summer.

How many people where sent to Auschwitz

• The amount of people where sent is a estimate of about 4.4 million people

How many people died in Auschwitz

• The estimate amount of people who died in Auschwitz was about 1.1 million

How did people survive

• Some people survived by escaping Auschwitz but it didn’t always work out.

• Some Jewish people who where giving the job of sonderkammando which was a Jewish guard wouldn’t get kill if they did there job.

When did Auschwitz open

• Auschwitz was opened in May 1940

What happened after the war

• The camp was liberate in January 1945

When and who liberated the camp

• The camp was liberated in January 27 1945 and the camp was liberated by the red army from the soviet union.

Movies and films of aushwitz

• Auschwitz (film)• God on trial (film)• The boy in the striped pajamas (film)