the almost complete destruction of the Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany. During the 19th century,

European Jewry was being emancipated, and, in most European countries, Jews achieved some

equality of status with non-Jews. Nonetheless, at times Jews were vilified and harassed by

anti-Semitic groups. Indeed, some anti-Semites believed that Jewry was an alien "race" not

assimilable into a European culture, but they did not formulate any coherent anti-Semitic

campaign. In 1940, Germany began sending Jews to Concentration Camps, a place where selected

groups of people (Jews) are confined, usually for political reasons and under inhumane conditions.

One of the largest concentration camps was located thirty-seven miles west of Krakow,

Poland. Auschwitz was the camp where Jewish people were worked and killed. This

camp, out of all the rest tortured the most people.

Auschwitz began as a barracks camp in the town of Oswiecim, for the polish army

in the early 1930's. Germany then captured Poland and needed another location for Polish

political prisoners. In 1940, the German SS sent a commission to Oswiecim to see if the

rooms were equipped with fake shower heads and benches, but none of the shower heads

The SS was corrupt. They would select the best rations for themselves and then

line were told that they would be going to the showers for 'delousing'. They were made to

vents in the ceiling would open and granules of Zyklon B would be released. Within 15

them. Today very few of the files from Auschwitz remain. Those prisoners left in the

didn't like a particular prisoner for some reason then that poor prisoner was tormented and

fold their clothes neatly and put them in piles and march, naked, to the 'showers'. Those

practice and send samples off to labs in other places. Prisoners would be given deadly

Block 11 also contained starvation cells. These cells accommodated fifty people or more.

holes would be filled within days. However, during the summer, the bodies bloated and

and rotting flesh. Nearby fish farmers complained that their fish were dying from pollution

Jews because an effective method for mass extermination had not yet been found. They

the lavatories. All 1,500 prisoners (per bunker) had 15 minutes to go to the bathroom with

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