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I. Holocaust at Auschwitz A. Concentration Camp 1. Life in camp 2. Countless murders 3. Rescue
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The Holocaust at Auschwitz
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Introduction

The story of the Holocaust at Auschwitz is a hard and very heart breaking story to tell. Millions Jews were murdered by the hands of the Nazis. The train arrived in the middle of the night, so we were greeted by very bright lights shining down on us. We were greeted by soldiers, SS men, as well as women. We were greeted by dogs and whips, by shouting and screaming, orders to try to empty the train, by confusion... There is no way to describe your first coming to Auschwitz.

Hitler established the first concentration camp soon after he came to power in 1933. The system grew to include about 100 camps divided into two types concentration camps for slave labor in nearby factories and death camps for the systematic extermination of undesirables including Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally retarded and others. No words can really describe the scenes that took place at Auschwitz once a Jew entered the gates of a camp. The SS would beat the Jews with wipes, rebar, butts of their weapons anything the SS could get their hands on to beat them to death. Do to overcrowding these beatings would happen every day. They would also gas them in gassing chambers. After the beatings and gassing the SS would take whatever was left on the dead body like money, watches, rings and other valuable objects. They would have details assigned just for carrying and deposing of the dead body. They would burn them or bury them in mass graves. Some Jews would just go insane form all this.