Extermination-Death Camps

Morgan Guest

Chelmno Established December

1941 First mass killings of Jews Total estimated deaths

were 150,000-300,000 Every afternoon:

Jews were brought by train Separated in groups of 50 Told to undress and

remove all valuables Taken to the “washroom” Within 10 min. all were

dead

Treblinka One of the most unknown

death camps Victims of camp kept silent

of 20-25 years Opened in 1942 Killed up to 3000 people in

3 hours

Today: On info packet "In a relatively short time

of its existence the camp took a total of over 800,000 victims of Jews from Poland, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Jugoslavia, Germany and the Soviet Union."

Auschwitz-Birkenau Symbol of terror Established 1939 Originally a

concentration camp Turned into a dreaded

death camp More than 40 sub

camps were established after

70-75% of people were immediately put to death

Between 1940-1945 1,100,000-1,500,000 people were killed mostly by gas chambers

Sobibor Established March

1942 Started operations in

April 1942 After revolt, ended

operations in October 1943

Killed about 250,000 people

Camp was separated in three parts Administration Barracks and storage for

plundered goods Extermination, burial,

and cremation section

Belzek Established

November 1, 1941 Estimated deaths

were 500,000-600,000 Started killings March

1942 Transports stopped in

May so 3 more gas chambers could be built (total was 6)

Majdanek Initially called

Concentration Camp at Lublin

First extermination was of the Russians prisoners of war

After the Final Solution was decided on, it became a death camp for Jews

Reasons for Death Starvation Labor that exceeded capacity Terror Executions Inhuman living conditions Disease and epidemics Punishment Torture Criminal medical experiments

Sonderkommado Group of Jewish male prisoners who were

assigned to get rid of the corpses from the gas chambers

Jobs were: Greet the victims and lie about what was going to happen

to them Remove bodies from chambers Processed bodies (took valuables, etc.) Throw the extra ashes from the cremation into river

Bibliography http://www.auschwitz.dk/Treblinka.htm http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/aut

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zectoc.html http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Che

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Sonderkommando.html