Worksheet with Questions

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-49276/docs/auschwitz/introduc.htmAuschwitzDirections: read each page; click on links and highlighted words on each page; answer thequestions corresponding to the links and pages—they go in order; when you have finishedlooking at everything on one page and all of its links, click next at the bottom of the page andcontinue through the website.1. What prisoners went to Auschwitz? How many prisoners did it hold?According to the map over Europe,2. What is the total number of people to die in concentration camps?3. Which camp was the first one ever built?4. How many extermination camps were there?According to the Historical Facts Sheet,5. When did Hitler become Chancellor? And later, Fuhrer?6. What happened in August of 1936?7. When is the first time Jews are put into concentration camps?8. When does Hitler tell the German’s that he wants to exterminate the Jews?9. When was Auschwitz built?10. What happened on June 22, 1941?11. How many Jews were murdered between September 1 and October 30, 1941?12. Who are the first group of people to be gassed? When do the first “Selections” take place?13. On July 7, 1942, what does Himmler say he would like to do to Jewish women?14. What happens in the winter of 1943?15. In 1944 how many Jews die a day in the gas chambers at Auschwitz?16. When and how was Auschwitz destroyed?17. What happened on the death marches?18. Who liberated Auschwitz?19. How and when did Hitler die?

20. What were the Nuremberg Trials?According to the registration sheet,21. How were prisoners registered?22. Which prisoners were not tattooed?23. How many prisoners could be housed in a block?According to “Since it was all a lie”24.What was confiscated from the prisoners?.25. What were the confiscated items used for?26. How were Jews, gypsies, political prisoners and homosexuals told apart in the camps?27. What was the hair that was collected used for?28. What were blocks 10 and 11 known as?29. You are already aware of many of the experiments committed by Dr. Mengele, , but what didDr. Carl Clauberg do (click on the Joseph Mengele link)?30. What was scratched into the wall in cell no. 21 in Block 11 and how was it done?31. How many people died at Auschwitz?32. What was Zyclon-B and how was it used?33. How many bodies could be incinerated per day and what were the ashes from the bodies usedfor?34. What was the name of Auschwitz II? What was it used for?35. What were the wooden barracks originally made for?36. Why were living conditions so much worse at Birkenau?When you get to “Thanks for Visiting” click on “Please take me some place different”Read through the information there, and when you get to the bottom of that page, click on “Aninteresting question” read the question, choose an answer, and scroll down.