Facts
- On the entrance of some concentration camps there is a sign in German that in English says "Work sets you free."
- Some people think that because some of the concentration camps are in Poland that Polish people created these camps when that is NOT TRUE. The camps were made by the Nazis.
- There were about 18 million people killed in the concentration camps.
- There were many ways that people died at the camps (For example: Putting them in gas chambers, them dying of labor, or they died because of disease)
- The conditions in these "camps" were harsh, much rougher than most prisons. Those who were not forced to work, were put to death.
- In labor camps they would sort people based upon ability. Those who were sick or disabled were immediately killed, due to their inability to work.
- The treatment of children is even more appalling. Most children upon arrival to Auschwitz would be immediately killed. There was a camp doctor who chose children to be tested on. What he was testing is unknown since his main forms of testing were freezing them, placing in pressure chambers, and testing with drugs. Instead of killing children then putting them into the cemetery, they skipped the step of killing these children and sent them straight to the cemetery alive.
- More people died in Auschwitz than the British and American losses of WWII combined!
- Over 1.1 million children died during the Holocaust.
- Approximately 100,000 Jews died during marches in the streets to the different work camps during the war.
- Two-thirds of Jewish people living in Europe at the time of World War II were killed by Nazis.