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In 1944, when deportations were made to Auschwitz. The Germans treated the Jewish poorly. The Germans threw the kids or small infants up in the air for target practice. The Germans had a “Selection” were they pointed out the weak from the strong the young and the old. Jewish elderly and Jewish who were to weak to work were sent to the showers and promised a clean new uniform. Instead the elderly and weak ended up in a gas chamber and was gassed to death. Everyone who were in the death camps got their hair chopped off. Germans tattooed the Jewish and called it branding. Before the death marches to Auschwitz almost every Jew lived in the Warsaw Ghetto. After 59 death marches from Auschwitz only a few Jewish were lucky to escape and live. But when the Jewish had gotten back there was nothing left because everything was taken from them.

Roleff, Tamara. The Holocaust: Death Camps. Sandiego: Daniel Leone, 2002. Print.

Auschwitz- Birkeneau

Main entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Poland, date uncertain.

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Auschwitz- Birkeneau

In 1941, the final solution occurred in all death camps. Jewish were getting suspicious when other Jewish entered the gas chamber and did not come out of the gas chambers. Zyklon B gas was used in the gas chambers. Gas vans were used first but then Jewish in the Ghetto started noticing that’s lots of other Jews were disappearing. Little kids are targeted because Germans knew little kids wouldn’t be as strong or work as hard in the Death Camps or Concentration camps. Germans started to enlarge the gas chambers because of all the Jewish. After all the Jews had died in the gas chambers their bodies would be carried out on wagons and burned.

Borowski, Tadeusz. Gas Chambers. Sandiego: Tadeusz Borowski, 2010. Print.

Gas Chambers

Gas chamber in the main camp of Auschwitz immediately after liberation. Poland, January 1945.

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In 1943, Germans placed a wall that was 10ft tall and 11 miles long. It’s to separate the Ghetto from the rest of the town. The Ghetto was 1,000 acres of the most rundown part of the city. Two SS men strolled down the Ghetto. Heinrich Klaustermeyer and Josef Blosche were 2 SS men who strolled down the Ghetto shooting Jewish kids and small infants randomly. Posing as a soldier of SS Yitzak Zuckerman, helped Jewish families or groups of Jewish fight within the Ghetto. Mordechai Anielewicz commander of Jewish Fighting organ. Jewish were deported to prison camps. Also when the Germnas told you to follow them, the Jewish would be in great danger.

Landua, Elaine. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. New York: Elaine Landau, 1992. Print.

Warsaw ghetto

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Warsaw ghetto

Mobile Killing Squads entered homes at anytime. Killing squads killed people on site. Killing squads took Jewish homes, money, family, and sometimes food. Jewish continued to hope for their families back. But mobile killing squads would have either used the kids as target practice or have just killed the family with cruel and unsual punishment. Troops set buildings on fire had small groups of people who fought for freedom. The Jewish who escaped were called partasians. The killing squads would kill Jewish who were hiding. There were survivors who brought the commanding officers and everyone in the killing squads to court.

Rossel, Seymour. The Holocaust. New jersey: Seymour Rossel, 1992. Print.

Mobile killing squad

Members of an Einsatzkommando (mobile killing squad) before shooting a Jewish youth. The boy's murdered family lies in front of him; the men to the left are ethnic Germans aiding the squad. Slarow, Soviet Union, July 4, 1941

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Mobile killing squad