Auschwitz research by 2018 Haylie Hudson https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r Made with the strength to succeed en-us 2018-04-20 13:08:37 UTC 2025-12-23 01:56:25 UTC hello@padlet.com fact 1 hhudson6 https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/253809462 Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the 🤬 concentration and death camps.]]> 2018-04-20 13:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/253809462 fact 2 hhudson6 https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/253814261 No one knows exactly how many people were sent to Auschwitz, or how many died there. However, historians estimate that between 1940 and 1945, the Nazis sent at least 1.3 million people to Auschwitz. About 1.1 million of these people died or were killed at Auschwitz.]]> 2018-04-20 13:24:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/253814261 fact 3 hhudson6 https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/253815952 "Arbeit macht frei" (German pronunciation: [ˈaɐ̯baɪt ˈmaxt ˈfʁaɪ]) is a German phrasemeaning "work sets you free". The slogan is known for appearing on the entrance of Auschwitz and other 🤬 concentration camps.]]> 2018-04-20 13:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/253815952 fact 4 hhudson6 https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/253816670 In October 1944, a group of Auschwitz "Sonderkommando," young Jewish males responsible for removing corpses from crematoriums and gas chambers, staged a revolt. They assaulted their guards, using tools and makeshift explosives, and demolished a crematorium. All were apprehended and killed.]]> 2018-04-20 13:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/253816670 Fact 5 hhudson6 https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/253825091 More people died in Auschwitzthan the British and American losses of WW2

]]> 2018-04-20 13:45:16 UTC https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/253825091 fact hhudson6 https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/253827038 Auschwitz was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940.]]> 2018-04-20 13:49:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/253827038 fact 7 hhudson6 https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/254383455 144
prisoners are known to have escaped from Auschwitz successfully
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Besides Jews, others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Romani and Sinti, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war and 400 Jehovah's Witnesses.]]> 2018-04-23 13:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/254383771 fact 9 hhudson6 https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/254384428
Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier, volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to gather information, escape and let the world know about the Holocaust.]]> 2018-04-23 13:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/254384428 fact 10 hhudson6 https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/254384935
Auschwitz's camp commandant Rudolf Hoss, was arrested in 1946, convicted of 🤬 and hanged at the camp.]]> 2018-04-23 13:37:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/254384935 fact 11 hhudson6 https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/254385660 During the Holocaust, a Jewish woman exposed up to 3,000 hiding Jews to the Gestapo to save her family. Even after the Nazis sent her parents and husband to Auschwitz anyway in 1943, she continued to work for the Gestapo until 1945.]]> 2018-04-23 13:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/254385660 fact 12 hhudson6 https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/254386260
Anne Frank's father survived Auschwitz and died in 1980 of lung cancer.]]> 2018-04-23 13:39:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hhudson6/vpunscf52c0r/wish/254386260