Holocaust-3

Extermination In 1942, the Nazis began to murder the Jews in large numbers. Extermination squads conducted mass shootings of Jews. Many Jews were sent to death camps. Six death camps existed- Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. Eventually, most Jews were deported to Auschitz-Birkenau, the most well-known death camp. In these camps, Hitler's Nazi soldiers committed mass murder in gas chambers. During the killing process, prisoners were forced into air-tight gas chambers that had been disguised by the Nazis to look shower rooms. A lethal chemical, Zyklon B, was dumped into the chamber through air shafts or openings in the ceiling. Upon being breathed in, the vapors of the Zyklon-B deprived the human body of oxygen, causing death.

The Nazis disposed of the bodies by cremation or burning. According to calculations by the German authorities, 1440 corpses could be burned in a crematorium every day.



= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =//                         __WARNING: Many images are graphic and may be upsetting: __ //= == **   To view images from inside the death camps, [|click here.]       **  ==  Additional images from Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, [|click here.] To hear a survivor talk about his horrifying experience at the Treblinka camp, watch the video titled Survivor Talks.mp4 on your desktop. (In the Auschwitz Videos folder)    //**"The songs of the sanctuaries turned into screams."**// ===//In the dead of winter, we marched from dawn to sunset at the foot of the Alps. Sometimes we marched for days without food or water. If someone sat down, he was shot. We carried nothing. Blankets were acquired by picking one up off the ground where it lay after someone had dropped from fatigue and no longer needed it. As we climbed toward the mountain pass, the number of bodies increased. We were ordered to stop and form lines of five. At the pass, two were randomly shot from each line. As some fell, the rest kept marching.//=== **<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(17, 95, 20);">"Behold my misery and save me." // **    <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ===//We started out on yet another march because the Russians were nearing the camp. Five days of marching, and we were less and less able to walk because of our diminished strength. Some were nearing the camp. Five days of marching, and we were less and less able to walk because of our diminished strength. Some were given help and put on couches rigged to horses. Our destination: Concentration Camp Gunskirchen—a "gem" in the Austrian forest. The exhausted victims from the couches were thrown directly into open graves, then killed.//===

===//The barracks were packed full of people squatting—one on each side of you, one in front of you, knee to knee, one in back of you—crammed together. We were confined to the barracks 12 hours at night. During the night, some of the weaker prisoners toppled over, burying others underneath, so that many suffocated. During the day, we were lined up and counted three times, for two hours. Food was given to us from a barrel the SS stood in. Our breakfast was a cup of coffee; our dinner, a cup of soup and a slice of bread. The toilet facilities consisted of a room for 12 men and 16 women for a prison population of 30,000. You had to use the "facilities" when you could find time to go—when you were not standing in line or confined to your barracks. Diarrhea or constipation afflicted everyone. Those who could not wait to use the toilet were executed on the spot.//===

===//One day an unusual alarm sounded, and everyone was ordered out of the barracks. The SS announced that someone had eaten meat. Who did it? Meat? Here? Ahh, they had eaten part of a corpse. Declaring what an "inhumane act" this was, the SS shot the perpetrators in front of us to "teach us respect for the dead ones." Oh, what a lesson in humanity.//=== <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left; display: block;">

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