Does anyone have any facts on Auschwitz?
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Auschwitz - facts\n\n\n In all, 1.1 million people died during the four and a half years of Auschwitz's existence; one million of them were Jewish men, women and children. \n\n\n\n Other groups of people who died included Polish political prisoners, Soviet prisoners of war, Gypsy families, homosexuals, people with disabilities and prisoners of conscience or religious faith (including several hundred Jehovah's Witnesses). \n\n\n\n More people died in Auschwitz than the British and American losses of World War Two combined.\n\n\n\n About 60 million Reichmarks - equivalent to £125m today - was generated for the Nazi state by slave labour at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\n Nazis at Auschwitz offered some non-Jewish female prisoners the option of 'light work'. As the women soon discovered, 'light work' meant prostitution. \n\n\n\n To lull new arrivals at Treblinka death camp into believing they were only in transit, plants were placed on the railway station and at the entrance to the gas chambers. \n\n\n\nThe train ramp was disguised to look like a regular railway station with signs, timetables and even a clock painted on the wall. \n\n\n\nA Star of David was placed above the entrance to the gas chamber and a sign was painted in Hebrew on a purple curtain covering the entrance to the gas chamber that said "This is the Gateway to God. Righteous men will pass through". \n\n\n\n A unit in Auschwitz where valuables snatched from incoming prisoners were kept was known as Canada, because Canada was thought to be a land of untold riches. \n\n\n\n Auschwitz guards had their own athletics team. The camp was like a small town, with its own staff canteen, cinema, theatre and grocery store. \n\n\n\n There were 170 female SS staff at Auschwitz, of whom the most infamous was Irma Grese, the 20-year-old daughter of a dairyman. \n\n\n\n Josef Mengele's scientific experiments at Auschwitz often involved studies of twins. If one twin died, he would immediately kill the other and carry out comparative autopsies. \n\n\n\n Denmark was the only Nazi-occupied country that managed to save 95% of its Jewish residents. Following a tip-off by a German diplomat, thousands of Jews were evacuated to neutral Sweden. \n\n\n\n Some Jewish prisoners secretly wrote eye-witness accounts of the atrocities of the gas chambers and hid them in bottles or metal containers buried in the ground. A number of these accounts were discovered after the war. \n\n\n\n Of a total of about 7,000 staff at Auschwitz, only 750 were ever punished. Many went on to build good careers, including one man who became head of human resources for a large German company. \n\n\n\n There are approximately 500 survivors of Nazi death camps or ghettos living in Britain today.\n\n\nand try this web site,\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/12_december/03/auschwitz_timeline.shtml
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Go here, it might help.\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html
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I believe you mean "Shoah", which is the Hebrew word for the Holocaust. Just remember to substitute Shoah for Holocaust (or vice versa) as you read the article. \nIf you want more sources, look up Holocaust; there will be a lot of information.
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Surprisingly few know that Nazi extermination camps in World War II were by no means the only ones in Europe at the time. In the years 1942-1943 also in Croatia existed numerous extermination camps, run by Catholic Ustasha under their dictator Ante Paveliç, a practicing Catholic and regular visitor to the then pope. There were even concentration camps exclusively for children!\nIn these camps - the most notorious was Jasenovac, headed by a Franciscan friar - orthodox-Christian Serbians (and a substantial number of Jews and Muslims) were murdered. Like the Nazis the Catholic Ustasha burned their victims in kilns, alive (the Nazis were decent enough to have their victims gassed first). But most of the victims were simply stabbed, slain or shot to death, the number of them being estimated between 100,000 and 150,000, in a rather tiny country. Many of the killers were Franciscan friars. The atrocities were appalling enough to induce bystanders of the Nazi "Sicherheitsdienst der SS", watching, to complain about them to Hitler (who did not listen). The pope knew about these events and did nothing to prevent them. [MV]
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On September 3, 1944 Anne, her family, and the people they hid with were all sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in the last group ever to leave from Westerbork.  The men and women were seperated at arrival to Aushwitz-Birkenau.  Anne and her sister were sent in October 1944 to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.  Anne and her sister died approximately 5 months later in March, just a few days apart.
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check out\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust\nit might help...
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The Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945\n\n\nhttp://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~dgraf/holocaus.htm\n\nhttp://www.greenepa.net/~wgsd/computerlab/Holocaust/Holocaust.html\n\nhttp://www.shamash.org/holocaust/\n\nhttp://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/Holocaust.htm\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html\n\nhttp://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-holoc.htm\n\nhttp://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/\n\nThe Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial.\n\nhttp://www.holocaust-history.org/\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/12663/?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0312\n\nOur site is not the only one on the World Wide Web dealing with the Holocaust.  Certainly an event of such tragic magnitude deserves as much coverage as possible from a wide variety of angles.  Here are some other sites that you can visit for more information.\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/12663/ref.htm\n\nWebsites for Holocaust Education\n\nA comprehensive list of links for you to explore.\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Holocaust.htm\n\nConcentration Camp Listing\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html\n\nThe image galleries on this site have been grouped into ten sections for your convenience. Click on the sample thumbnail photo to view all of the galleries in any section.\n\nhttp://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/gallery.htm#1\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Here's some info about it\nhttp://www.italianhospitalsociety.com/Pages/about%20us.htm
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yeah go to the holocaust museum or google holocaust ghettos there is a lot of stuff there. id tell you in detail, but i have 5 tests tomorrow and i dont want to stay up studying until 5 a.m. and wake up at 5:30 and take tests so take my advice and i hope that i was helpful
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Try the US Holocaust museum website, they might have some info for you.
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There is this one picture on this Web site: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/auschwitz/auschwitz.php\n\n\nAlso, if you go to google, type this in the search bar: "Ruth Webber, Poland" and click on the image tab above the search bar.
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In 9th Grade World History, we had to watch doumentaries on the Holocaust. It showed footage of the mass graves, emaciated bodies being dumped into the pits; other prisoners being forced to do the dumping and burying. It showed the crematories and pictures of the experiments. It was horrible. The teacher even warned us a week beforehand, and told us we didn't have to watch it if our parents signed a form saying they didn't want us to. I thought if these people went through something so horrible, the least I could do was to try to understand just how horrible it was. So, I watched it. \n\nAnyway, the year before, I had gone to Europe, and one of the places I visited was Dachau (near Munich, one of the first concentration camps). There were pictures and all at Dachau about what went on, but nothing like this documentary. So, when we watched the films in class, I remembered where I had gone, and I realized what had happened on ground that I had actually walked over. It gave me nightmares. Horrible nightmares... But I'll never forget it, and if I could go back, I would still watch it. No matter how bad it was for me, it was infinitely worse for them.\n\nI still don't understand how so many people could have believed that it was OK to kill and dehumanize so many people. I don't get it. I know all the theories and all the reasoning, but it still doesn't "sink in." It was just so vast and incomprehensible. What scares me even more is that there are still groups of people here and there that glorify the Nazi movement and agree with it, even try to emulate it in some ways. There are people that don't believe it happened... and that just blows my mind.
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http://sport.ard.de/spe/turin/\n\nhttp://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/16/0,1872,2250512,00.html
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Since a picture speaks a thousand words:\nhttp://www.travelblog.org/Photos/73829.html\nhttp://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~jbarrett/SA/MandelaCell.jpg\n\nhttp://www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/Images2000/clinton-mandela-jail.gif\n\nGood article on its new status as a pilgrimage site:\nhttp://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9703/02/mandela.cell/
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Whether the Holocaust really happened or not only matters for Israel, and Germany, cause Israel benefits from that claim, and i think that Germany is still compensating for Israel..\nBut what matters for all of us, is the possibility of such a terrible thing to happen to any one, or any group.\nA lots of terrible things like the Holocaust are happening in the world right now.. Like the hunger in some african countries, the diseases, and lots more.\nSome estimate that 100,000 people have been killed in Iraq. Isn't that a Holocaust?\nI hope we work to prevent Holocausts, rather than argue about an ugly part of our human history..
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Have you not had any history lessons yet?  The Holocaust is the name applied to the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom of the 8th and 9th November 1938 and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, leading to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.\n(There is more info about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust\n\nAlso read the book "Diary of Anne Frank".  See if you can find a copy of the tv miniseries "Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance".  They were made from books written by Herman Wouk and had actual footage from the concentration camps, etc.\n\n\nTry these sites for movies about the holocaust:\nhttp://www.thirdreich.net/Holocaust_Movies.html\nhttp://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/MOVIES.htm\nhttp://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/schindlers-list.html
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Last year, the remains of about 200 Italian prisoners in Russia were returned to Italy.\n\nDuring World War II, at least 250,000 Italian troops were sent by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini to help allied German Nazi forces, but most lacked the warm clothing and cold-weather survival skills of the Soviets.\n\nWith most of their vehicles broken down or lost in battle, the Italians trudged in retreat often traveling hundreds of kilometers during the winter of 1942-43. Many dropped dead in forced marches to prison camps. Others survived the cruel journey, only to die in camps as far away as Siberia.\n\nAn estimated 70,000 Italian soldiers never returned from the campaign. (From the Mos News)\n\nI would contact the Italian Embassy in Moscow and ask what they are doing to locate the missing Italian prisoners.\n\nGood luck.  Those that weresn't killed outright often died in the prison camps later.  Very few made it back.