Trains transported people to the camps, and violently forced them off the train. All of the people’s property
was left on the train also. They prisoners were sent into two different!
lines, one for women and the other for men. The lines moved into the place were a procedure called
‘Selection’ took place. The ones who could work were not killed at this time, but the women, children, and
others that couldn’t work were gassed. The prisoners that were to work, had their clothes taken, heads
shaved, got sterilized, and were given black and white striped clothes to wear. In the forced labor camps,
the average life time was only a few months. Some of the prisoners that couldn’t react or move became
what was known as Muselmann. A dreaded part of camps was the Appeal, or roll call. In this, prisoners
were sent out into the cold night after a hard day of work, and lined up. Anyone that fell to the ground was
shot or gassed. One more of all the bad work chores was the Sonderkommando. Dong this meant that you
burned the bodies of the dead prisoners in the creamatoria. Tattoos were given to the prisoners on their
right arm as an easier way of registration. !
Not all of the earlier prisoners had this tattoo, but the regiterd number of prisoners was 405,000. The daily
routine in the complex differed in each camp, but the basic routine was the same. They: woke at dawn,
cleaned their areas, morning roll call was taken, they walked to the work site, worked for long hours, had to
wait in lines for food, then walked bback to their bunks, block inspection was done, and then evening roll
call was taken. There were also people who got picked for medical experiments. The best known docter at
Auschwitz was Josef Mengele. His experiments were mostly done on twins and dwarfs. He did lots of
things that had to do with seeing how ling it would take a person to die if you do this or that. He also did
experiments that had to do with cutting off body parts, and reattaaching them to different parts of the body.
By January 20th, 1944, the population of the Aushwitz complex had reached 80,839. That number rose up
and up as the monthes past an!
d more prisoners came. The first gas chamber to be used was bult in Auschwitz I. The gas that was used in
the chambers was called Zyklon B. In Birkinau, the largest number of people that could be killed in the gas
chambers was 6,000 people daily. The gas chambers lookes just like shower rooms. The prisoners were
told they needed to be cleaned before work, and were then killed in the stalls. On the borders of Auschwitz
I and Birkinau, electrical fences were put up. Watchtowers and S.S. men lined the complex with automatic
guns to be used in any escape situations. Canals also lined the border of Birkinau. Starting in March of
1942, trains arrived at Auschwitz-Birkinau daily, carrying Jews from Europe. The prisoners anger and
rebelion to the Nazis was always there, but only a few people decided to do anthing though. In the most
difficult times, 667 prisoners tried to escape. Only 270 of them made it, and the ones who got caught were
executed. Jewish leaders wanted to !
have the Allied powers bomb Auschwitz at one time. This never did happen though. A group of women at
the camp destroyed one of the gas chambers in an uprise. The leaders of the uproar were found and
executd on January 6th, 1945.

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