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| | HOLOCAUST FAQ: Auschwitz-Birkenau: Layman's Guide (2/2) |
 | | The same procedure applied to those prisoners who were directed straight to Auschwitz I: 405,000 prisoners were registered in this way. | | | In 1964 he testified at the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt am Main. | | | You can obtain a copy from the US gov't through the following sources: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, VA 22161 or: Photoduplication Service Library of Congress Washington, D.C. Use the report number(#st 79-10001) and the document number (NTISUBE28002) to speed service along. |
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| | Modern History Sourcebook: Rudolf Hoess: Testimony at Nuremburg |
| | The Gestapo Court, the SS Standgericht, which tried persons accused of various crimes, such as escaping Prisoners of War, etc., frequently met within Auschwitz, and Mildner often attended the trial of such persons, who usually were executed in Auschwitz following their sentence. | | | All mass executions by gassing took place under the direct order, supervision and responsibility of RSHA.31 received all orders for carrying out these mass executions directly from RSHA. | | | This is his signed testimony at the Post-War trials of Major War Criminals held at Nuremburg. |
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| | CBC News Indepth: Auschwitz |
| | RELATED: CBC ARCHIVES: Life After Auschwitz CBC ARCHIVES: Fleeing Justice: War Criminals in Canada CBC News Disclosure: The Beast of Bolzano | | | Add CBC stories here (will appear on all pages in this indepth section) | | | September 1941 - First test of Zyklon B gas used to kill prisoners at Auschwitz. |
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| | 60 Years After Liberation: An Anniversary for Auschwitz |
| | Reproduction of material without written permission is strictly prohibited. | | | Auschwitz, 60 years later - Heads of state and about 1,000 survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp returned for ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the camp’s liberation, in what may be the last such memorial to include significant numbers of survivors. | | | U.N. remembers Holocaust - By commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the United Nations is going to unprecedented lengths to mark the Holocaust. |
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| | Auschwitz - Birkenau Exhibition LukeTravels.com |
| | Auschwitz - Birkenau contents © Copyright LukeTravels.com™ unless otherwise noted. | | | A July 2, 1947 act of the Polish parliament established the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the grounds of the two extant parts of the camp, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. | | | In 1941-1944 prisoner of KL Auschwitz, then of KL Gross-Rosen and KL Flossenburg-Leitmeritz, from which he escaped in April 1945. |
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| | HOLOCAUST FAQ: Auschwitz-Birkenau: Layman's Guide (1/2) |
| | The removal of this copyright notice is forbidden. | | | The victims were 600 Soviet prisoners of war and 250 other prisoners. | | | However, there is no reason for accepting without question the statistics attributed to Eichmann, which may err on either side. |
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| | Auschwitz |
| | In September 1941, in Auschwitz I, the SS first tested Zyklon B gas as an instrument of mass murder. | | | Virtually all of the subcamps were attached to Auschwitz III. | | | The first prisoners were German criminal prisoners deported from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany and Polish political prisoners from Tarnow. |
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| | CNN.com - Leaders, survivors mark Auschwitz liberation - Jan 27, 2005 |
| | All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. | | | Parliament president Wolfgang Thierse called on Germans to fight continued anti-Semitism in Germany, especially in light of the regional resurgence of the far-right National Democratic Party -- which took nearly 10 percent of the vote in elections in the eastern state of Saxony last year. | | | Survivor Joszf Paszynski marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz |
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| | t r u t h o u t - World Leaders Mark Auschwitz Liberation |
| | The road does not just start beside a roundabout and a BP petrol station. | | | Among those at the Birkenau commemoration will be Raphael Esrail, 80, who was taken to Auschwitz from France in February 1944, at the age of 19, and is now secretary general of the French association of Auschwitz victims. | | | Most of those who died at Auschwitz never wore camp uniforms. |
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| | The Auschwitz Album, Yad Vashem |
| | It is a unique document and was donated to Yad Vashem by | | | She was even called to present it as testimony at the Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt during the 1960s. | | | Kraus, Ota and Kulka, Erich, The Death Factory: Document on Auschwitz, New-York, 1966. |
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| | Auschwitz-Birkenau - Wikipédia |
| | A l'instar des autres camps de concentration, Auschwitz était sous les ordres de Heinrich Himmler et de ses SS. | | | Auschwitz I: Ouvert le 20 mai 1940 / Le camp de concentration où périrent près de 70.000 hommes, pour la plupart des prisonniers de guerre et des opposants politiques polonais et sovétiques | | | L'usine IG Farben de Monowitz fut reprise par le gouvernement polonais qui décida également de restaurer et de transformer Auschwitz I en musée à la mémoire des victimes (polonaises) de l'holocauste et de maintenir en l'état Auschwitz II comme témoin de l'ampleur du crime. |
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| | Auschwitz |
| | Höss was sentenced to death on April 2, 1947, by the Supreme National Tribunal and hanged at Auschwitz on April 16 of the same year. | | | Three of his children were born during his five years' stay there (the fourth was born at Dachau and the fifth at Auschwitz). | | | It was in the Polish prison that he wrote his memoirs, maintaining his "duty" as being the reason for his activities. |
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| | Auschwitz |
| | Inside this courtyard is where most of the prisoners of Auschwitz-I were executed. | | | This is a recreation of the actual spot where the prisoners were murdered. | | | Auschwitz camp commander Rudolph Hoss was tried for his actions in the war, found guilty and brought back to Aushwitz to be hanged. |
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| | Holocaust Survivors: Encyclopedia - "Auschwitz" |
| | Originally it was intended to dispose of the bodies of the prisoners who had died at the camp. | | | After his trial in 1947, he wrote his memoirs while awaiting execution. | | | The "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Leads to Freedom) sign was above the entrance to Auschwitz I. It was the site of the infamous Block 11, the punishment block, and the site where the depraved "Medical experiments" were carried out. |
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| | Auschwitz: The Camp of Death |
| | Auschwitz II held the Birkenau commandant's office, the kitchen barracks, the "experimental block" for medical experiments conducted on the prisoners, execution barracks mass graves for Soviet prisoners of war an incarceration area, and a storage area for the personal items of the dead and captured prisoners. | | | The "death block" housed the criminals in the camp. | | | These words were to promote the false hope that hard work by the prisoners would result in their freedom: however, the sad truth was that the prisoners were doomed to slave labor and death was the only real escape. |
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| | Auschwitz -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Contains a study of the documents, testimonies and survivor's accounts. | | | "Auschwitz." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. | | | German soldier and Nazi partisan who served as commandant of the Auschwitz extermination camp (1940–45), during a period when as many as 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 inmates perished there. |
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| | Auschwitz on Encyclopedia.com |
| | La intimidad de la muerte.(construcción de, crímenes cometidos en el campo de concentración de Auschwitz durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial)(TT: Intimacy of death.)(TA: construction of, crimes committed... | | | Une vue du camp d'Auschwitz Il y avait un musée, des ateliers de peinture et de dessin à Auschwitz: le Brooklyn Museum of. |
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| | Auschwitz Hitler`s deathcamp |
| | The women were released - the only shipment out of Auschwitz during WW2. | | | At Auschwitz Mengele did a number of twin studies, and these twins were usually murdered after the experiment was over and their bodies dissected. | | | After survivor groups protested, Clauberg was finally arrested in 1955 but died in August 1957, shortly before his trial should have started. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Auschwitz: A New History |
| | Auschwitz - Inside the Nazi State DVD ~ Laurence Rees | | | The symbiosis that often existed between prisoner and prison guard is quite unsettling, as are the attendant moral and ethical issues. | | | Customers interested in Auschwitz: A New History may also be interested in |
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| | The History Place - Auschwitz Today |
| | Auschwitz I, the original camp, was established in 1939 to hold Polish political prisoners. | | | The photos were taken by Scott Sakansky during visits to Auschwitz in 1991 and 1997. | | | By October 1941, Auschwitz II (Birkenau) was opened nearby and became the main killing center during the Final Solution in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe. |
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| | The Holocaust History Project Homepage |
| | Kremer witnessed gassings in Auschwitz and wrote about them in his diary. | | | Describes two ovens installed in Auschwitz gassing bunkers. | | | Essays and other material on the Auschwitz death camp: |
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| | Primo Levi |
| | Admission is free and open to the public. | | | 40 years after his imprisonment, in the spring of 1982, Primo Levi returned to Auschwitz ("in the role", as he put it, "of a tourist"). | | | Primo Levi, born in Turin, Italy, in 1919, and trained as a chemist, was arrested during the Second World War as a member of the anti-Fascist resistance and deported to Auschwitz in 1944. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Auschwitz - The Nazis And The Final Solution |
| | This untold story of Auschwitz marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. | | | The computer animated images are based on plans from the Auschwitz construction office, which were captured after the war, eye-witness testimony and aerial photos. | | | Auschwitz is near enough to be remembered vividly by millions, but there is something about it which tries to convince you that such barbarism could only be traced to our darkest, primeval past. |
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| | Auschwitz II concentration camp at Birkenau |
| | The name Mexico was given to this section of the camp because some of the prisoners would huddle with a blanket wrapped around themselves, which reminded one of the prisoners of the native people in Mexico. | | | According to the Auschwitz museum, there were 10,000 Russian POWs in the first group of prisoners brought to the camp, but only 1,000 of them survived. | | | Although not as well known, nor as frequently visited as Auschwitz I, Birkenau was the place where more Jews perished in the Holocaust than at any other camp. |
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| | Dick Cheney, Dressing Down (washingtonpost.com) |
| | At yesterday's gathering of world leaders in southern Poland to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the United States was represented by Vice President Cheney. | | | The ceremony at the Nazi death camp was outdoors, so those in attendance, such as French President Jacques Chirac and Russian President Vladimir Putin, were wearing dark, formal overcoats and dress shoes or boots. | | | People would have justifiably considered that an insult to the office, the day, the country. |
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| | Auschwitz I concentration camp - photos of the Visitor's Center and the entrance |
| | Tourists at both Auschwitz I and Birkenau are not required to take a guided tour, but may walk around freely on their own. | | | I was also told that there is a hotel inside the Auschwitz I camp, but I didn't see it. | | | Without a guide, most visitors would never guess that this building was once where the incoming prisoners to the Auschwitz main camp were registered, bathed, disinfected, tattooed, shaved and then given a blue and gray striped prison uniform to wear. |
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| | World leaders mark 60th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation |
| | This should never be repeated, ever." -- Maj. Anatoly Shapiro, who commanded the Soviet unit that captured Auschwitz, speaking in a recorded greeting from New York. | | | An Auschwitz survivor takes shelter from the snow in a blanket during yesterday's ceremonies. | | | Chirac inaugurated a French pavilion on the grounds of Auschwitz. |
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| | Three large camps constituted the Auschwitz camp complex: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (Birkenau), and Auschwitz III (Monowitz). | | | Others were killed after the "research" was completed and their organs removed for further study. | | | Most prisoners at Auschwitz survived only a few weeks or months. |
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| | Gallery - Auschwitz-Birkenau - Photos |
| | In the foreground is the sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work makes one free). | | | A large pile of prayer shawls (tallesim, tallitot), that were confiscated from arriving prisoners are stored in one of the warehouses in Auschwitz. | | | One of a series of aerial photographs taken by Allied reconnaissance units under the command of the 15th U.S. Army Air Force during missions dating between April 4, 1944 and January 14, 1945. |
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| | Story of Auschwitz |
| | In general only one of ten persons taken to Auschwitz made it through the War. | | | We've traveled day and night for about five days to Auschwitz. | | | Berger was satisfied and not insisting anymore on installing mezuzahs on every door, as he brought them with him. |
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| | The Holocaust, Crimes, Heroes and Villains |
| | You may read about Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Chief of the German Military Intelligence who was a dedicated anti-Nazi and held Hitler in utter contempt. | | | It seems as though there is no spark of human concern, no act of humanity, to lighten that dark history. | | | But he remained true to his Jews, the workers he referred to as my children. |
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| | Galeria fotograficzna |
| | Gas chamber and crematorium V. SS photograph, 1943. | | | Evacuation routes for Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners in 1945. | | | Polish army barracks on the grounds where Auschwitz concentration camp was established. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe World marks Auschwitz liberation |
| | French President Jacques Chirac, opening an exhibit in honour of French victims, said his country must bear its responsibility for the deportation of Jews from Nazi-occupied France. | | | In the nearby Polish city of Krakow, before the ceremony in Auschwitz, Mr Putin spoke out against anti-Semitism and admitted that it was a problem in his country. | | | Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi camps, where 1.1 million people died, was liberated by the advancing Soviet army on 27 January 1945. |
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| | Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp |
| | At its peak the whole complex was a deadly prison to some 150,000 inmates that were being either murdered outright or starved and worked to death. | | | In addition to Poles there were soon imprisoned Soviet POW’s, Gypsies, and other nationals from the rest of German-occupied Europe to suffer and die in hellish conditions. | | | Every year some 500,000 visitors come to Oswiecim, an industrial town of 45,000, to see the Auschwitz. |
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| | Hell of Belzec |
| | Wirth rejected Cyanide B which was later used at Auschwitz. | | | Wirth developed his own ideas on the basis of the experience he had gained in the "Euthanasia" program and decided to supply the fixed gas chamber with gas produced by the internal-combustion engine of a motorcar. | | | This gas was produced by private firms and its extensive use in Belzec might have aroused suspicion and led to problems of supply. |
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| | CNN.com Specials - Auschwitz |
| | Photos from Auschwitz during the war and just after the camp's liberation by Soviet forces in January 1945. | | | Joszf Paczynski remembers the day in 1942 when he saw a group of fellow prisoners at Auschwitz being gassed. | | | World leaders and survivors gather at Auschwitz to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp. |
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| | Virtual Auschwitz |
| | This document was last modified on July 20, 1995 | | | By clicking on any of the areas whose name is enclosed in a box, you will move to other hypertextual documents that explore each specific, concrete aspect of Auschwitz. | | | Unlike the philosophical discourse that subsumes the Holocaust under this name "Auschwitz," it is imperative to reach back behind the name and probe the reality of Auschwitz in its multiplicity, its complexity, its disparate spatial and logistical expanse. |
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| | Auschwitz Extermination Camp Liberated |
| | A mass funeral of inmates who could not be saved or who were killed by the SS before liberation. | | | View of the execution wall next to Block 11 in Auschwitz I. A warehouse full of shoes and clothing confiscated from the prisoners and deportees gassed upon their arrival. | | | A large pile of Jewish prayer shawls (tallesim, tallitot) confiscated from arriving prisoners and stored in one of the warehouses in Auschwitz. |
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| | Holocaust Cybrary remembering the Survivors, Remember.org |
| | His personal history is full of remarkable events, including being part of the very first prisoner transport to arrive in Auschwitz, and being part of one of the most famous escapes from the camp. | | | Alan Jacob's Auschwitz, Then and Now takes you through actual art by survivors of Auschwitz -- click and see an actual photo taken in the same place the art was created...Stunning. | | | The work of Alan Jacobs will continue to grow, sharing photos and views on the Holocaust that are unique and powerful. |
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| | BBC - History - Genocide Under the Nazis |
| | Recollections of the liberation of the concentration camps, in the People's War archive. | | | On 27 January, Britain marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. | | | The Red Army liberates Auschwitz in south west Poland. |
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| | The Real World Revisited (Grade 9) |
| | When using media, provide students with a Focus for Media Interaction, a specific responsibility to complete during or after viewing of video, Web sites, or other multimedia elements. | | | A woman will appear and say, “Auschwitz…” Play the video until she says, “…inexperienced of such horror. | | | Step 9: Ask the students to remember that the “Auschwitz” article did not really make them feel much. |
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| | NPR : A Father's Memories of Auschwitz |
| | Oscar Fisher was one of the 7,000 prisoners liberated from Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, when the Soviet Army reached Auschwitz, in western Poland. | | | To mark the anniversary, Debra Fisher shares a story from an ongoing oral history project, StoryCorps. | | | Morning Edition, January 27, 2005 · Thursday is the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the most infamous Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. |
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| | @Poland : Auschwitz |
| | Enlarged in the subsequent years, it became a site of mass genocide. | | | It is located about 65 kilometres west of Krakow. | | | The Nazis established the Auschwitz concentration camp in April 1940. |
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| | Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
| | Report of the 3th Session of the Committee | | | According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century. | | | The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz- Birkenau, the largest in the Third Reich. |
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| | Auschwitz — Birkenau Table of Contents |
| | House Resolution Commemorating 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz | | | Senate Resolution Commemorating 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz | | | Plea to Bomb the Railway Lines Leading to Auschwitz |
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| | ItsTherightWay on Reflecting On The Life Of Pope John Paul II. |
| | So what did this pope do that was so special? | | | He was the first pope to visit Auschwitz ( | | | That sent a special message to Jews all over the world that he was serious about reaching out to the Jewish people and Jewish leaders. |
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