Auschwitz-Birkenau is located in Oswiecim‚ Poland. It was a concentration camp that was called “The Death Factory.” This complex was divided into three major camps: Auschwitz I‚ Auschwitz II‚ ‚ and Auschwitz III. Auschwitz became a huge source of slave labor locally and was used as an international clearing house. Of the 2.5 million people who were deported to Auschwitz‚ 405‚000 were given prisoner status and serial numbers. From those people‚ around 50 percent were jews and the other 50 percent
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Survival in Auschwitz The Holocaust is considered one of the worst genocides in history‚ known for it’s merciless killings and torture of Jews and other outcasts. The cruelness of the genocide can be witnessed first hand in the novel Survival in Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz was written by Primo Levi‚ an Italian Jew who was a prisoner in the concentration camp of Auschwitz when he was the age of twenty-four. He managed to leave Auschwitz alive‚ and dedicated the rest of his life to writing
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The most Notorious Camp Auschwitz was the most notorious and violent Nazi death camp racking up a death count of 1.1 million people. Auschwitz was visited by Joseph Mengele “The Angel Of Death” Auschwitz was the most efficient killing camp. The nazis took pride in Auschwitz because of the harsh conditions. Auschwitz was most known for its gas chambers were over 400 people could be killed in less than 15 minutes. The gas chambers used Zyklon-B gas. Zylon was very efficient killing a full grown
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Philosophy Essay The philosopher that spoke to me the most was Nietzsche. I agreed with him on multiple points such as alcohol and religion being crutches that give us a false sense of confidence and hope. I also agreed with Nietzsche in that in order for one to be successful‚ they have to endure some sort of hardship or failure. Coming up with the saying‚ “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is the main reason I connected with Nietzsche seeing as how that is a saying I like to live by
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Friedrich Willhelm Nietzsche‚ a German Philosopher of the mid 1800`s was Born 1844 and died after a long medical condition that was thoroughly investigated but with no found result in 1900. Nietzsche is most renowned for challenging the moral integrity of Christianity in the late 1800’s despite having grown up with a background and family history of Lutheran ministers; where his Father‚ Uncles and Grandfathers were all Ministers. This philosopher was the most outspoken on topics such as power‚ pain
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Hallo mein Name ist Aliza meaning filled with joy and I just spent one and half years in the Auschwitz camp. This camp was very dreadful to be in. I came with my family‚ mom‚ dad‚ my 3 brothers and my sister. Before we came to the camp we had to travel 5 days in cubby on a train with approximately 100 people in one cubby and those things were tight to fit in. We were all cramped up and squished‚ I think so people actually died because they were sick and because we didn’t get any food for those 5
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Auschwitz I was constructed on April‚ 1940 and was the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp during World War II in southern Poland. It was located on a former military base in a town near Krakow. During the time in which the camp was constructed‚ near by homes and factories were forcefully evacuated and then were demolished by the Nazis with bulldozers. The first officer in charge of Auschwitz was Rudolf Höss who previously had helped run the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg
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nearly 11 million people‚ at least 6 million of those were Jewish. Fortunately‚ one of the survivors was Primo Levi who documented his journey in the book Survival in Auschwitz. There are multiple instances of evil in his book but I will look deeper into chapter 1 and how it relates to the logical problem of evil. Evil in Auschwitz The Fascist Militia captured primo Levi on December 13th 1943 and placed him in a detention camp. On the morning of February 20th a group of German SS men showed
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sign above the entrance to Auschwitz reads “work sets you free”. The idea developed by Elie Wiesel is when faced with mortality‚ human nature develops survival instincts‚ and people’s actions become uncharacteristic. These demeanors such as self preservation are shown by Wiesel at various points throughout the text Night. “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (pg. 27). These 8 eight simple words altered one’s fate as they entered the concentration camps at Auschwitz; furthermore‚ they transformed
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The main concentration camp was Auschwitz. Auschwitz was the largest camp that was created by the Nazi. It was broken down into three main camps. The first camp was built in April 1940. It was known as Auschwitz 1. The second camp was built in October 1941. It was known as Birkenau. The third Camp was built in October 1942. It was known as Buna. The number of Victims in the Auschwitz Complex alone were absurd. The SS and police killed about 1.1 million people of all different backgrounds out of the
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