Museum of Nazi Concentration Camps Visit the Office Treblinka Janowska Essential Questions Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum Entrance Welcome to the Lobby

Curator Information The creators of this museum are Gigi Bucciachio, Elise Kattelman, and Duncan Burgess. They are in 3* Social Studies class with Ms. Townsend. Back to Lobby

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Essential Quesitons Back to Lobby 5

Artifacts of Auschwits Back to Lobby 6

What were Concentration Camps? Concentration camps were camps designed for either labor, extermination, or prisoners of World War 2. Most of the people that were in these camps were Jews or Communist. Hitler made the people believed that Jews and Communist were the ones that made Germany lose WW1. Jews were soon sent to these camps and were put under really harsh conditions. Some survived and many didn’t. Here are some of the camps that put Jews and many others into a world of death and torture, depression and misery, and tears and sorrow. Back to the Lobby

What was Treblinka? . Treblinka was an extermination camp that was built by the Nazis in World War 2. Between July 1942 and November 1943, Treblinka was one of the many camps that mainly went after the Jewish people. Treblinka murdered approximately 850,000 men, women and children. Including more than 800,00 Jews. Treblinka was located in northeast Poland, in the forest. This camp took Jews from Poland, Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Germany and many other countries. Treblinka was between 33 acres and 44 acers. The barbed-wired fences that surrounded the camp and that kept the prisoners inside the camp were about 8 feet and 2 inches tall. This was one of the many camps that was used during World War 2. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/history-and-overview-of-treblinka Back to Room 1

Survives of Treblinka There were a totally number of 67 survivor’s that survived Treblinka. The last known survivor died last year on February 21, 2016. His name was Samuel Willenberg. He died at the age of 93 years old. Willenberg survived because he was strong looking so he told the guards that he was a builder for the camp instead of a prisoner. Willenberg was the only individual of his transport that didn’t get sent to the gas champers. Willenbergs escape happened after a massacre of 300 prisoners. The SS Soldiers recaptured 200 of these prisoners, others were shot in the leg. 67 prisoners made it out alive and unharmed. Willenberg was one of these people. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186984/Stories-Treblinka-Last-living- survivors-speak-horrors-haunting-memories-Nazi-death-camp.html Back to Room 1

The end of Treblinka… Treblinka was shut down in November 1943. The commander of the camp came and told the Nazi Soldiers that the camp had to be wiped off the map completely with no trace of it. The people who built the camp later destroyed it and planted trees and scrubs to cover up any trace of the camp left behind. The troops liquidated the camp after taking the prisoners to a different camp or killed them. There is no explanation as to why Treblinka was destroyed, but a camp that killed more than 80,000 people was gone within two days. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/holocaust-index/treblinka/ Back to Room 1

The Layout Janowska was made up of three different sections and later was developed into an extermination camp. The first section was where all the offices were. In the center of this section was the sleeping quarters for the SS, camp staff, and other guards. In section two was the barracks. Which were buildings all the prisoners slept in. All of the factories where the prisoners worked were located in section three (labeled on the map as DAW). http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/janowska.html Back to Room 2

The Barracks Each barrack housed about 2,000 prisoners. The conditions were appalling. Diseases quickly spread.  Many died of starvation and disease. In the barracks they slept on either wooden planks or the floor. Each row in a wooden bunk 3-5 prisoners would sleep. Conditions were cramped. http://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=XaDK4ndq&id=2F873DA1D827F54B0C19C197598F79D3BCA934EF&thid=OIP.XaDK4ndqPKFIGRFLpUJpgwEsDh&q=barracks&simid=608030090586949865&selectedIndex=9&ajaxhist=0 Back to Room 2

Alexander Schwarz Alexander Schwarz was born in Boryslaw on 23 February 1921. He was brought to the camp in 1941 with his father. His mother and his younger brothers and sisters were shot in the ghetto that they were staying in. Alexander was forced to help build 15 barracks. He fled from the camp in October 1943. http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/holocaust/Resources/JanowskaSurvivor047.htm Back to Room 2

How did the actions and inactions during WW2 affect the world that we live in today? Because of all the actions of WW2, we live in a different world. Now there is more judgement of people, more hate in the world, and less alliances than there used to be. Because of all the inactions of WW2, we people today are less concerned about who we are allied with. Back to Room 3

How did WW2 impact and transform society throughout the world and in the US? WW2 impacted and transformed society throughout the world and in the US because it played such an important role in all of the world. Most countries were involved in WW2 and the events that happened changed all of the history for these countries. Most of the countries still are not in the best position to help each other out in any other big events. Back to Room 3

How did these events of WW2 influence literature, institutions, movements, science, and the arts of today? All of these events influenced most of todays arts, literature, institutions, movements, and science because it helped us develop. For example, in WW2 when they made new weapons that involved science which made us work on new weapons for future events. Art and literature is used to express all of the events that happened so you feel like you are actually there in the event happening. There are many other reasons why WW2 influenced these things, but this is just a summary of it. Back to Room 3

People In The Camps People in the camps grew very skinny due to the amount of food they were given. The ones that were in this labor camp hard work everyday doing extensive labor and then were given small servings of bread and cold soup. Back to Room 4

Personal Belongings As people entered the camp their belongings were taken, they were under the impression that their belongings would soon be returned. So they made name tags in order to know what stuff is theirs. Back to Room 4

Elie Wiesel Elie was a survivor of the holocaust and was held at Auschwitz he was their from 1940-1945. He, his father, mother, and three sister were taken to Auschwitz he and his to oldest sisters survived. He went through lots of pain when losing his father because he died of sickness and Elie was only delaying that death. Back to Room 4