The HolocaustA Tragic Legacy

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Chelmno Chelmno was the first extermination camp the used the

method of gassing. Several hundred Poles,5,000 Gypsies and 88 czeq children were killed at chelmno. The first victims of Chelmno arrived on December 7,1941 and began to be gassed the next day. Jews were systematically killed as a part of the “Final Solution”. In march of 1943 the killing was suspended and then began again in June of 1944. Chelmno was then abandoned by the Germans on January 17,1945.

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Bibliography:“Chelmno(kulmnof)”. The Holocaust.1997.PrintCaption: This is a entrance to a concentration camp

CrematoriesCrematories were ways they used to dispose dead bodies. When people were to show up they could be cremated that day, within seconds or the next day. When cremation started nobody knew about it unless they were being cremated but eventually the word got around. When bodies were put in the crematories it looked as if they were tied together and every corpse looked like they were covered with grease and black marks. After cremation the ashes were either dumped all over camp or out in the cremation pits which were created for people who were cremated.

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Bibliography:Lace, William. The Death Camps. San Diego: Lucent Books,P.O,1998.PrintCaption: This is a picture of the crematories

Elie WieselElie Wiesel was a man who survived the Holocaust.

He tenuously held on to his faith in god after being deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Elie Wiesel grew up and was raised in a religious home in Transylvania. After the Holocaust Elie took up his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. During that time Elie wrote twenty five novels and one of them included a very memorable quote” While not all victims were Jews, all Jews were victims”. Elie Wiesel also won a Nobel Peace Prize at the end of his career.

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Bibliography: Pfeferkorn,Eli.”Wiesel,Elie”.Encylopedia Of The Holocaust. 1990.PrintCaption: this is a picture of Elie Wiesel

Gas ChambersGas chambers originally started in Auschwitz and became the

biggest and most central place for gassing. Jews were the main people who were killed in gas chambers. People were lined up and directed into cellars or vans where they were then gassed by Zyclon B till death. A couple times people were directed to showers and told they were going to be getting a shower but instead they were gassed. At the end of it all “Sonderkommando” was the name of the people who disposed all the bodies that were gassed.

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Bibliography: Lawton, Clive. Auschwitz, ,Cambriage: Candlewick Press, 2002. PrintCaption: This Is a picture of a gas chamber used to gas people