1. Holocaust Petra Laslová, Barbara Šťastná, Dagmar Vysloužilová 3. B Concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau

2. " Forgetting them means letting them die again " Elie Wiesel

3. Auschwitz-Birkenau the biggest and most famous of Nazis concentration camps the symbol of Holocaust (holókaustos: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt") the place of the " final solution of the Jewish question in Europe " designed by Heinrich Himmler location: southwest of Poland, near the city of Oświęcim (Auschwitz) foundation: 27 April 1940 killed: 1,1 million victims: mainly Jews, Poles, Roma, Soviet soldiers… Liberation: 27 January 1945 by the Red Army

4. Arbeit macht frei (Work liberates)

5. Arrival What happened after passing The "Arbeit macht Frei" gate? 1. leave everything at the station 2.go into a hall (women and men separately) 3.undress (completely) 4.selection (right – able to work, left – immediately gassed) (if you survived the selection) 5.shaving everywhere 6.some pieces of clothes (not your size) 7.tattoo your number

6. Welcome to Auschwitz-Birkenau..

7. Selection

8. Children‘s shoes

9. Identification card of a young girl from the Netherlands

10. One day in Auschwitz get up at 4:30 am 30 minutes for morning hygiene counting of the prisoners hard working for more then 12 hours about 5 hours of sleeping Meal breakfast: two slices of bread, sometimes a pat of margarine or jam lunch: soup with a little bit of meat dinner: small slice of bread and some coffee

11. Prisoners at work

12. Toilettes in Auschwitz

13. Punishments What happened if you weren‘t listening? beating with fists or truncheons flogging deprivation of food hanging on a tree extra work standing naked outside (in winter) "standing cell" shooting torture to death

14. Standing cell inside Block 11

15. Entrance to Punishment Block

16. Female Guards in Auschwitz-Birkenau

17. What if death isn‘t the worst?

18. Crematory IV

19. But sometimes is better to be dead …

20. than to get lollies from Dr. Mengele…

21. Marches of death If you by chance survived horrors of the concentration camp… Marches of death: between autumn 1944 and April 1945 The Third Reich is near defeat, the USSR entered Poland march to camps inside Germany bad dressed, no shoes, hungry, ill, frozen hard.. If you couldn‘t walk or you walk too slow, guards would shoot you.

22. Death march from Dachau

23. On the way from Auschwitz, the camp of death…

24. Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau On 27 January 1945 the Red Army entered Auschwitz and liberated 7 500 prisoners. From 1,3 million. About 20 000 originally Auschwitz prisoners were liberated by the British army in April 1945 in concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. A lot of people who survived, died a few months after the liberation due to illness. NEVER FORGET THEM!

25. Freedom…

26. Women with Soviet soldiers

27. The Red Army with prisoners from Auschwitz

28. Jewish children… now free…

29. Memento The horrors of the concentration camps must never be repeated!

30. Thanks for your attention.

31. Sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp http://www.holocaust.cz/cz2/history/camps/auschwitz http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/ http://www.auschwitz.dk/auschwitz.htm http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/survivor/index.html Miklós Nyiszli : Auschwitz-A doctor’s eyewitness account Ella Lingens: Prisoners of Fear Betty Truck, R.P. Truck: Médecins de la honte Shlomo Venezia: Inside the Gas Chambers E. N. Soumerai, Carol D. Schulz: Daily life during the Holocaust Viktor E. Frankl: Man’s search for meaning