Auschwitz 1 by annie li https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e Annie Li en-us 2018-10-18 17:31:37 UTC 2026-03-01 22:54:25 UTC hello@padlet.com Facts & Statistics annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294516370 - Initially housed mainly political prisoners
- Housed 15,000-20,000 political prisoners
- 10,000 Jews, 4,000 Poles, 3,000 of other ethnicities
- 7,000 prisoners were left behind during the Death Marches
- After the liberation, 7.7 tons of human hair were found, 837,000 women's clothes, and 370,000 men's suites.]]> 2018-10-18 17:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294516370 Purpose of Auschwitz I annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294518375 Located in Oświęcim, a town in Poland, Auschwitz I served mainly as a concentration camp for prisoners to work. However, it did have a crematorium and a gas chamber.
Auschwitz I was dedicated to incarcerating people who were "threats" to the Nazis and German authorities.]]> 2018-10-18 17:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294518375 Citations annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294518676 "Auschwitz I / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau." Auschwitz.org. N. p., 2018. Web. 18 Oct. 2018.
"Auschwitz." Encyclopedia.ushmm.org. N. p., 2018. Web. 18 Oct. 2018.
"Auschwitz." HISTORY. N. p., 2018. Web. 18 Oct. 2018.
"The Order Of The Day / Life In The Camp / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau." Auschwitz.org. N. p., 2018. Web. 19 Oct. 2018.
"Nutrition / Life In The Camp / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau." Auschwitz.org. N. p., 2018. Web. 19 Oct. 2018.
"Life In The Camp / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau." Auschwitz.org. N. p., 2018. Web. 19 Oct. 2018.
"Jobs Within Auschwitz." N. p., 2018. Web. 19 Oct. 2018.
"Josef Kramer | Nazi Commander." Encyclopedia Britannica. N. p., 2018. Web. 19 Oct. 2018.
"Josef Mengele." Encyclopedia.ushmm.org. N. p., 2018. Web. 19 Oct. 2018.
"'You Could See Happiness In Their Eyes': Russian Veteran Recalls Soviet Liberation Of Auschwitz." RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. N. p., 2015. Web. 19 Oct. 2018.]]> 2018-10-18 17:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294518676 "Work sets you free" annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294520261 "Auschwitz Bate El Récord De Visitas." 
El Español. N. p., 2017. Web. 18 Oct. 2018.
]]> 2018-10-18 17:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294520261 Barracks annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294848886

"May | 2012 | K&Mk." Kandmk.com. N. p., 2018. Web. 19 Oct. 2018.
]]> 2018-10-19 14:37:53 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294848886 The Black Wall annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294850949 Death, Auschwitz, and The Inlé. "Auschwitz 1: The Wall Of Death." 
Auschwitz-2012.blogspot.com. N. p., 2012. Web. 19 Oct. 2018.
]]> 2018-10-19 14:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294850949 Purpose Cont. annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294850989 In Auschwitz I, disturbing medical experiments where performed on prisoners. They would experiment on twins, infants, and dwarfs. They also castrated and sterilized adults.
The Black Wall was a wall that Nazi soldiers would order prisoners to stand before. At the end of the Holocaust, thousands were executed before that wall.]]> 2018-10-19 14:41:39 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294850989 Daily life of Prisoners annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294851027 4:30 am: Wake up to the sound of a gong. 
Attempt to wash and clean themselves and their surroundings. 
Drink coffee
Second gong: roll call
Split into work groups accompanied with the sound of an orchestra
Work until 12:00 pm
!2:00 pm: Have lunch
1:00 pm: Go back to work.
7:00 pm: Stop work, roll call, carry corpses away.
Have evening bread and free time.
9:00 pm: Silence]]> 2018-10-19 14:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294851027 What did they eat? annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294862151 Breakfast: Coffee/coffee substitute or tea
Lunch: Unappetizing soup (potato, rutabaga, groats, rye flour, Avo food extract
Dinner: Small amount of black bread, sometimes with sausage, margarine, marmalade, or cheese.]]> 2018-10-19 15:02:54 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294862151 Living Conditions annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294864245 Prisoners slept in barracks. These were 28 brick buildings in which would house 1200 prisoners each (meant to hold 700).
Prisoners slept on straw mattresses. In their rooms, they had furniture like stools, tables, and coal stoves. which didn't help much with the cold. ]]> 2018-10-19 15:07:01 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294864245 Jobs annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294868020 The jobs prisoners had:
Sonderkommando: The Special Works Unit that were sent to crematoriums and gas chambers to dispose of corpses.
Kanada Kommando: A group chosen to sort though others left behind belongings.
In the beginning, prisoners would build their own camps- laying roads, building brracks, etc.

]]> 2018-10-19 15:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294868020 Josef Mengele annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294871676 Josef Mengele, who conducted severely cruel and inhumane experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, became known as the "Angel of Death."
He mainly targeted twins and would often be found searching among the new arrivals for twin children.
Renate Guttmann was one of the "Mengele Twins." She recounts that "Once, I was strapped to a table and cut with a knife. I got injections that made me throw up and have diarrhea. While ill in the hospital after an injection, guards came in to take the sick to be killed."
When Auschwitz was to be liberated, Mengele fled and successfully evaded capture until his death in Brazil where he was buried under a false name. 6 years later, his corpse was dug up and through DNA testing, the corpse was verified to be mengele.]]> 2018-10-19 15:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294871676 Josef Kramer annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294884430 Josef Kramer once served in Auschwitz and later became the commander of another camp - Bergen-Belsen. During his time in Auschwitz, he was known for being exceedingly cruel. He would beat and torture prisoners. He would set dogs on prisoners and machine gun down others. In 1945, he was captured by the British, tried, sentenced, and hanged later that year. ]]> 2018-10-19 15:44:37 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294884430 Ivan Martynushkin annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294884537 Ivan Martynushkin was a part of the Soviet army unit that liberated Auschwitz. At the time, he was a 21 year old senior lieutenant of the 322nd Rifle Division. He describes how his division had no idea what the concentration camp was at the time. The Soviets quickly realized the emaciated people contained within the barbed wire were prisoners, while the prisoners realized the soldiers where there to help them. Martynushkin recalls, "You could see happiness in their eyes" once they realized liberation was upon them.]]> 2018-10-19 15:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294884537 Ivan Martynushkin annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294915732 "Auschwitz Ivan Martynushkin Stock Photos And Pictures | Getty Images." Gettyimages.com. N. p., 2018. Web. 19 Oct. 2018.]]> 2018-10-19 16:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294915732 Josef Kramer annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294916415 "The Belsen Trial - The Trial Of Commandant Josef Kramer And 44 Others." Scrapbookpages.com. N. p., 2018. Web. 19 Oct. 2018.]]> 2018-10-19 16:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294916415 Josef Mengele annieli1280 https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294917278 "Josef Mengele." En.wikipedia.org. N. p., 2018. Web. 19 Oct. 2018.]]> 2018-10-19 16:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/annieli1280/s0pac19kgs9e/wish/294917278