Auschwitz

Auschwitz was a network of extermination and concentration camps designed, built and operated by Nazi Germany during WWII.

Auschwitz- Birkenau also known as “Auschwitz II” became the largest extermination camp throughout the Holocaust. After a experiment that consisted of gassing and 850 ill prisoners, this method of mass killings became the most ideal and effective form of execution.

By 1942 it was estimated that as high as three million people were killed by means of gassing, starvation, burning, shooting and disease over the network of Auschwitz; 9 out of 10 were believed to be Jewish while the addition of Gypsies and other discriminated prisoners died within the walls of the gas chambers.

Between May 14 and 8… 1944, 437,402 Hungarian Jews were sent into Auschwitz II on 148 trains, this was to become the largest single deportation during the war.

At Auschwitz it was most common for children to be killed upon arrival. Children born on camp soil were usually killed immediately. Near the end of WWII living children were put directly into ovens or straight into open burning pits to cut expenses of gas.