https://padlet.com/kevin_cucalon/zwlp6jngaohu Kevin Cucalon, Carlos Ayala. Nick Hamby en-us 2017-03-15 01:51:30 UTC 2026-03-16 09:35:09 UTC hello@padlet.com kevin_cucalon https://padlet.com/kevin_cucalon/zwlp6jngaohu/wish/160144977 A network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by Adolf Hitler during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), and 45 satellite camps.]]> 2017-03-15 01:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kevin_cucalon/zwlp6jngaohu/wish/160144977 kevin_cucalon https://padlet.com/kevin_cucalon/zwlp6jngaohu/wish/160147040 More than one million people lost their lives at Auschwitz, nine out of ten of them Jewish. The four largest gas chambers could each hold 2,000 people at one time.]]> 2017-03-15 02:19:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kevin_cucalon/zwlp6jngaohu/wish/160147040 kevin_cucalon https://padlet.com/kevin_cucalon/zwlp6jngaohu/wish/160147182 A sign over the entrance to the camp read "ARBEIT MACHT FREI," which means "work makes one free." In actuality, the opposite was true. Labor became another form of genocide that the Nazis called "extermination through work." Victims who were spared immediate death by being selected for labor were systematically stripped of their individual identities. They had their hair shaved off and a registration number tattooed on their left forearm. Men were forced to wear ragged, striped pants and jackets, and women wore work dresses. Both were issued ill-fitting work shoes, sometimes clogs. They had no change of clothing and slept in the same clothes they worked in.

]]> 2017-03-15 02:20:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kevin_cucalon/zwlp6jngaohu/wish/160147182 kevin_cucalon https://padlet.com/kevin_cucalon/zwlp6jngaohu/wish/160147465 Each day was a struggle for survival under unbearable conditions. Prisoners were housed in primitive barracks that had no windows and were not insulated from the heat or cold. There was no bathroom, only a bucket. Each barrack held about 36 wooden bunkbeds, and inmates were squeezed in five or six across on the wooden plank. As many as 500 inmates lodged in a single barrack.Inmates were always hungry. Food consisted of watery soup made with rotten vegetables and meat, a few ounces of bread, a bit of margarine, tea, or a bitter drink resembling coffee. Diarrhea was common. People weakened by dehydration and hunger fell easy victim to the contagious diseases that spread through the camp.]]> 2017-03-15 02:23:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kevin_cucalon/zwlp6jngaohu/wish/160147465 kevin_cucalon https://padlet.com/kevin_cucalon/zwlp6jngaohu/wish/160147588 Escape from Auschwitz was almost impossible. Electrically charged barbed-wire fences surrounded both the concentration camp and the killing center. Guards, equipped with machine guns and automatic rifles, stood in the many watchtowers. The lives of the prisoners were completely controlled by their guards, who on a whim could inflict cruel punishment on them. Prisoners were also mistreated by fellow inmates who were chosen to supervise the others in return for special favors by the guards.]]> 2017-03-15 02:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kevin_cucalon/zwlp6jngaohu/wish/160147588 kevin_cucalon https://padlet.com/kevin_cucalon/zwlp6jngaohu/wish/160147973 Auschwitz was a cruel, demented labor camp. Most prisoners at Auschwitz survived only a few weeks or months. Those who were too ill or too weak to work were condemned to death in the gas chambers. Some committed suicide by throwing themselves against the electric wires. Others resembled walking corpses, broken in body and spirit. Yet other inmates were determined to stay alive.]]> 2017-03-15 02:30:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kevin_cucalon/zwlp6jngaohu/wish/160147973