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__ **Auschwitz Concentration Camp** __

Auschwitz was Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp. This camp became the killing center where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. "Auschwitz is referred to as a physical place because it is the site of the single largest mass murder in the history of humanity". Auschwitz was established on April 27, 1940, by the Nazi's, under the order of SS Heinrich Himmler. The camp was located in Poland outside a city called Oswiecim. On January 17, 1945, evacuation of Auschwitz began and the camp was no longer used. For more information on Auschwitz, refer to [].
 * Auschwitz **

**Auschwitz Survivors and Death Toll**

When Auschwitz came to an end, the death toll was estimated to be about four million people. The people who were killed at Auschwitz included Jews, Gays, Protestants, Gypsies, Catholics, and many more religious groups. Ninety percent of these people who died at Auschwitz were Jews. About 65,000 people survived Auschwitz. A few of the survivors include: To learn more about Nathan Kalman and Hannah Finer's survival story of Auschwitz, [|click here].
 * Elie Wiesel
 * Nathan Kalman
 * Hannah Finer
 * Trudy Spira
 * Jan Komski
 * Ernest W. Michel
 * Auschwitz Gas Chambers and Crematoriums**

The prisoners at Auschwitz had to follow certain rules that the Nazi's came up with. For example, they had to wear a yellow, Jewish star. If a prisoner did not follow these rules they were shot by the SS officer. The SS officers also killed their prisoners by taking them to the gas chambers. The SS officers told the prisoners that they were going to take a shower. They stripped the prisoners of their clothing and sent them underground to the gas chambers. In the gas chambers there were showerheads on the walls. The showerheads are where the Zyklon B, a poisonous gas, came out of and killed the prisoners. The corpses were then taken to the crematorium so the bodies could be turned into ashes. The ashes of the corpses were then used as fertilizer for the fields at Auschwitz, or dumped into rivers.

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 * 1. What was Auschwitz?**

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 * 2. When (location) did Nathan Kalman discover that his first love, Hannah Finer Rosenthal, survived Auschwitz?**

Look back at the paragraph, Auschwitz Gas Chambers and Crematoriums, to find the answer. Provide two examples of how the SS officers killed their prisoners.
 * 3. How did the SS officers, at Auschwitz, kill their prisoners?**