INDEX

• LOCATION• THE BUILDING• DEATH AND TORTURE• BIRKENAU• FAMOUS PRISIONERS• CONCLUSION• BIBLIOGRAPHY

LOCATION

• It was near Cracow (Poland), in a place surrounded by forest and reservoirs

• It was an old headquarter from the Austria-Hungary monarchy

• It was located in an area of 40 km2

• It started to be built on May 1940

THE BUILDING

• At the begining, the capacity of the building was 7000 men, but it was extended to 18000

• It was surrounded by two barbed wire of high voltage

• In the principal door, there was a poster that said “Work shall make you free”

DEATH AND TORTURE• There were many deaths caused by cold

temperatures, exhausting fatigue, and some illnesses such as scurvy or dysentery.

• They shot at twelve people at the same time

• Five people were hanged by the executioner

• This concentration camp was the first to incorporate the gas chamber

Auschwitz II - Birkenau

• It was built on behalf of Heinrich Himmler• The Auschwitz II was bigger than the first

one• It had a capacity of 100.000 people

aprox.• At the beginning, Birkenau was created

as a extermination camp• Inside the building, there were

crematories, each one with a gas chamber, and they could burn 4756 people

THE MOST FAMOUS PRISIONERS IN AUSCHWITZ

• Anne Frank: was a prisioner of Auschwitz-Birkenau between September and October 1944, then she moved to Bergen-Belsen, where she died of fever

• Primo Levi: Italian writer of Jewish origin. He was captured and deported to Auschwitz in the winter of 1944. He survived, and wrote “If This Is a Man”, It was a diary of his life in the concentration camp

CONCLUSIONWe think it was something terrible what

nazis did with this innocent people.The building was a great construction, but

ithadn’t have a good use.

Imagine all the money that spent in it, and, if in spite of they used it to create

Austwitch, they could gave it to the jews.

Bibliography - Fonts Bibliography - Fonts

•Wikipedia•Corazones.org/lugares•auschwitz.org.pl/•remember.org/camps