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"Auschwitz Concentration Camp The Gas Chambers

Http://www.HolocaustResearchProject.org." Auschwitz Concentration Camp The Gas
Chambers Http://www.HolocaustResearchProject.org Web. 01 Apr. 2016.
A special group of doctors would do selections. They would round everyone up and from
those people, they would pull out the physically unfit. All the people selected would be
sent to the gas chambers. At first, carbon monoxide was used through the shower heads,
but eventually Zyklon B was introduced. Hundreds of people were forced into the cellars.
They had no window. Then they would all be piled in and the door was locked. The gas
would be poured in. after the execution of these people, SS officers would have to march
all the bodies up to the crematoria, where all the bodies would be burned.
"The Holocaust." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 01 Apr. 2016.
Originally, the Nazis would only shoot people. They would send in a special killing squad
called the Einsatzgruppen. They forced people to dig mass graves in the ground. The
Jews would then be killed by getting in the grave, or by sitting on the edge and being shot
down in. This method of murder only worked for a little while. The Nazis were using
bullets that they needed in order to fight the war. So, Hitler had to come up with a new
solution. The Final Solution. They decided to build the gas chambers. This would kill
thousands at one time. And so they did. They built these gas chambers in many camps.
They would pack thousands in and they would all be dead within 15 minutes. They began
by putting the sick, old, weak, and very young in first. But eventually they forced anyone
into the chamber.
"The Seven Gas Chambers at Auschwitz." Auschwitz Gas Chambers. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Apr.
2016.

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Auschwitz was one of the most horrifying places on Earth. Most people who came here
did not make it out. Most people women, children, infants, and elders were sent to the gas
chambers immediately. 7 buildings in Auschwitz were used as gas chambers. The first
testing of the gas was held in block 11. Stammlager was the location of the first real gas
chamber. It could hold 700-800 people at one time. The gas that they used was called
Zyklon B. It was poured through openings in the roof, killing everyone inside. After its
use as a gas chamber, the SS used it as an execution site. Then, in 1944, is was turned
into an air-raid bunker.
Wiesel, Elie, and Marion Wiesel. Night. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, a Division of Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 2006. Print.
This book was the story Elie Weisel. He was one of the few Holocaust survivors. Day in,
and day out, death surrounded him. Death surrounded everyone. Elie came face to face
with the furnaces at the beginning of his time in the camps. His mother and sister had to
go the other way. They were separated from the very beginning. Elies experience was
one that changes a person for good. He lived in the camps at a young age. He was the
only survivor from his family. Throughout the book, he explains the horrific things this
boy went through and saw. Everyone was starving, freezing, and exhausted. Some were
strong enough to survive. However, most were not as lucky. But, Elie was strong enough
and made it through.

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