Name: Date: Period:Auschwitz Questions:

1. What were the names of the three camps that made up Auschwitz (their numbers and names)?

Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau), and Auschwitz III (Auschwitz Monowitz)

2. If 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz from 1940-1945, and camp authorities murdered about 1.1 million people, approximately how many people were able to survive the camp?

200,000 people

3. If The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was set during 1943 (Shmuel and Bruno were both born on April 15, 1934, and both are 9 years old when they meet), which Auschwitz Camp Commandant was (supposedly) Bruno’s father?

SS Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943-Mid-May 1944 (though the dates do not line up entirely, this would be our best guess)

4. What were the three reasons Auschwitz I was built?

1) to incarcerate real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime and the German occupation authorities in Poland for an indefinite period of time

2) to provide a supply of forced laborers for deployment in SS-owned construction-related enterprises (and, later, armaments and other war-related production)

3) to serve as a site to kill small, targeted groups of the population whose death was determined by the SS and police authorities to be essential to the security of Nazi Germany.

5. What kind of medical experiments were carried out within Barrack 10?Pseudoscientific research on infants, twins, and dwarfs, and performed forced sterilizations and castrations of adults.

(Pseudoscientific: A system of theories or assertions about the natural world that claim or appear to be scientific but that, in fact, are not.)(Sterilizations: surgery to make a person or animal unable to produce offspring.)

6. What happened during the Prisoner Revolt of October 7, 1944?

Several hundred prisoners realized they were about to be killed, and rebelled. They killed three guards and blew up the crematorium and adjacent gas chamber by using explosives smuggled into the camp by other prisoners. The Nazis crushed the revolt and killed almost all prisoners involved, publicly hanging the women who smuggled in the explosives.

7. Where were prisoners at Auschwitz III (aka Buna or Monowitz) assigned to work?

The Buna synthetic rubber works.

8. Where were prisoners transferred if the SS judged them too weak or sick to continue working?

Auschwitz-Birkenau to be killed.

9. What did the SS force prisoners to do when Soviet forces were approaching Auschwitz?

Evacuate and march west ( a death march). SS guards shot anyone who fell behind or could not continue, many prisoners died from the cold weather, starvation, and exposure during the march.

10.How many people were left in Auschwitz when the Soviet army liberated it?Over 6,000

Elie Wiesel