1. Poland & World War II By Claire West & Bo Hughes

2. 1939-1945 1939- august fifteenth- German invades Poland taking innocent civilians 1941- The Auschwitz concentration camp is built and prisons are emptied. Most Prisoners sent to Auschwitz to relieve over population of prisons. 1942- First shipment of prisoners from the Grodno Ghetto sent to Auschwitz. 1945- Auschwitz is closed down and Prisoners are released.

14. Jerek Gorski

15. Auschwitz Journal 43: -Life in Auschwitz is terrible, I wish I were dead. My life is as good as over. Hear the soldiers talk about the battle of Stalingrad, they have it bad, but I have it worse -While working I over heard the Germans talking. They were talking about some army in Stalingrad that had been attacked. It made me realize that both the prisoners and the---- soldiers were effected by the war for the worse. They suffered through bad conditions and were also forced into the army. They didn’t have a choice like all of us in here. I realize that we cant be mad at the soldiers because there suffering just as much as we are..

17. Works Cited "Auschwitz-Birkenau - KL Auschwitz-Birkenau." Auschwitz-Birkenau - Main Page. 1999. Web. 28 Apr. 2010.. Piper, Franciszek. "Auschwitz-Birkenau - Poles in Auschwitz." Auschwitz-Birkenau - Main Page. 1999. Web. 28 Apr. 2010.. Strzelecki, Andrzej. "Auschwitz-Birkenau - Jews in Auschwitz." Auschwitz-Birkenau - Main Page. 1999. Web. 28 Apr. 2010.. Archer, Noah, and Chris Webb. "The Grodno Ghetto Http://www.HolocaustResearchProject.org." Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team. Web. 13 May 2010.. Schmidt, Paul, and William Shirer. "Hitler Receives an Ultimatum, 1939." EyeWitness to History - History through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It. 2004. Web. 13 May 2010.. Kuhan, Anura. The Holocaust in Poland: a Study of Works Dealing with the Issue of Polish People's Collective Behaviour in the Holocaust. 1993. Print.

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