Auschwitz Concentration Camp

World War II was a tragic fight that became too out of control due to several concentration camps. Not only were there so many camps, but there were camps split up into smaller sub-camps. Each of these tiny, terrifying camps transported millions of Jews from camp to camp until they eventually died off. The Jews suffered painful deaths and some were very slow deaths. Although Treblinka's camp killed approximately 870,000 people, Auschwitz was made up of three smaller sub-camps that killed 1.1 million people, therefore, Auschwitz was the worst concentration camp. To begin with, this brutal camp was located in Oswiecim, Poland and established on May 26th, 1940 (jewishgen). “Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp facility, was located nearby the provincial Polish town of Oshwiecim in Galacia, and was established by order of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler on April 27th, 1940. Private diaries of Goebbels

Out of the three camps near Oswiecim, the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp had the largest total prisoner population (ushmm.org). Auschwitz II was too huge so as a result it was organized in several groups. For instance, Auschwitz II was divided into ten sections by electrified barbed-wire fences. Just like Auschwitz I, was patrolled by SS guards and SS dog handlers (ushmm.org). Each of these scetions tortured several different kinds of people and in all different ways. For example, “Auschwitz II included a camp for new arrivals and those to be sent on to labor elsewhere; a Gypsy camp; a family camp; a camp for holding and sorting plundered goods and a women's camp” (jewishgen). In other words, when a family was picked up and transported they were seperated from eachother with no excuses. If a mother and son were transported to Auschwitz II the mother would go to the all women section and her son would go to another section. Then, each of them would either perfrom labor or be sentenced to