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Hunter Lisula

"Work will set you free" is what it said. But those words are all lies. On the front of this death trap was a sign that said these words, but once you got in you never came out. This building is called Auschwitz. Back in World War 2 when Hitler was ruling Germany, his main goal was to put all the Jewish people to work and make them suffer.

The biggest rooms in Auschwitz concentration camp were the gas chambers. Each gas chamber could fit about 2,000 people. The Nazis would tell the Jewish people to take off their clothes so they could take a shower. But when they walked in, the doors shut behind them, and zyklon B, a deadly gas, was poured into the chamber. The Nazis would keep the people in the chamber for 30 minutes to insure all of the people inside were killed. Hitler killed millions of people with his gas chambers. At Auschwitz about 6,000 Jews were exterminated each day. The gas chambers looked like a deer skinning room, and just down right creepy. Gas chambers were relatively big with all concrete walls and a big metal door. In the sides of the walls were little holes where the German soldiers would pour the zyklon B into the chamber. The gas chamber was the biggest killing machine there ever was created and killed a countless number of Jews.

Another area of the Auschwitz concentration camp are the crematoriums. In the crematoriums, dead bodies from the gas chambers would be thrown in them and cooked. There were 5 crematoriums in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In one day about 1,440 bodies could be cremated in the second crematorium according to the German authorities. The first crematorium in Auschwitz operated from August 15, 1940 to July 1943, the longest lasting crematorium. After the war ended, the German forces orderd to blow up the crematoriums and the rest of the camp. On January 20, 1945 the SS blew everything up. The crematoriums were brutally disgusting and a terrible thing that was used to kill people.

In the Hollocaust the hospitality wasn't that great either. Prisoners lived in brick buildings with basically nothing except some straw mattresses for sleeping on their bunks. Three level bunks made out of wood with a uncomfortable straw mattress was the prisoner's bed. These bunkers also had no electricity. This doesn't sound so bad but there would be a ton of people in a bunker that smelled like a gas station bathroom and they were total strangers. People would die in these bunkers from starvation and other diseases. I know I wouldn't want to be sleeping next to a dead guy.

The concentration camps were terrible places, and it is almost impossible to believe that this many people died there. Once someone went in, they never came out and that is the most frightening thing to know about this place. Auschwitz will always be in history and in our memories as one of the most horrific places ever.