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William Buehler Mr. Neuburger Eng.101-104 April 8, 2013 Research Paper Death Camps The Holocaust is a grim reminder of what evil people can do to each other. They murdered millions of people, many of them were Jews. Others included Jehovah’s Witness, homosexuals, midgets, and political prisoners. One of the most gruesome things of the Holocaust was the death camps. There were six death camps in total. The Holocaust remains one of the worst genocides in the twentieth century. One of the most notorious death camps that the Nazi’s had was Auschwitz-Birkenau according to jewishgen.com it was known as the Death Factory. There were also two other camps in the Auschwitz complex as well as many subs camps. There were seven gas chambers that used Zyklon-B poison gas to murder people. They had three Crematoriums running just about nonstop cremating bodies. (www.ushmm.org). From, my personal visit to Auschwitz the place just seemed completely evil. I saw the sign that said “work will make you free” this gave me a terrible feeling because I knew many people never left this gate alive. I couldn’t bring myself to go through. I had just gotten a terrible feeling and my head started to hurt has I walked up to the gate of Aushwitz. One of the other horrific Nazi death camps was Chełmno and it was established in December 7th, 1941. It was set up in the town of Chelmno, about 50 miles away from Lodz which had a ghetto setup in it. The camp was very primitive they used the church in town to hold the people being sent to the gas chambers. The Nazis used three gas vans to carry out these brutal murders. The Nazis red directed the vans exhaust was redirected up in the van so that they would die of carbon monoxide. They were also lined with tin and air tight. They had wooden lattice on the floor so, that clean up would be quicker. The camp murdered around 150,000 people in all there are only 2 known survivors of the camp. (http://www.jewishgen.org) I never got to see Chelmno but my uncle a world traveler got to meet one of the survivors in Poland, while he was visiting the camp. The survivor was talking about his experience at the camp. He also talked about the process that the Nazis murdered the people at Chelmno. First they would put around fifty people in one of the Nazi gas vans and drive it to a hole that prisoners had been digging. Once the prisoners got to the large hole the dead bodies would be thrown in and filled in with a bulldozer. Sometimes the prisoners would even be alive when buried. These two camps are just two of the horrific camps that were run during the holocaust. There were many brutal murders that happened everywhere in Europe and they need to be remembered so, history won’t repeat itself. Never forget what happened during the holocaust. Works cited Museum of Jewish Herriatage. Jewish Gen. ancestry.com , 2013. Web. 20 Apr. 2013. . United States Holocaust Museum. United States Holocaust Museum. United States, 12 May 2011. Web. 20 Apr. 2013. .