The magnitude is clear. And behind each number are individuals whose hopes and dreams were destroyed. Efforts to name the victims are important to restore the individuality and dignity their killers sought to destroy. Note 1 "Other" includes, for example, persons killed in shooting operations in Poland in —; as partisans in Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy, France or Belgium; in labor battalions in Hungary; during antisemitic actions in Germany and Austria before the war; by the Iron Guard in Romania, —; and on evacuation marches from concentration camps and labor camps in the last six months of World War II.
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Introduction The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jewish men, women and children by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Documenting the Holocaust: Examples of Documents What follow are the current best estimates of civilians and captured soldiers killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
There are three obvious and interrelated reasons for the lack of a single document: Compilation of comprehensive statistics of Jews killed by German and other Axis authorities began in and It broke down during the last year and a half of the war.
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Using photo analysis techniques on World War II aerial reconnaissance film, two CIA analysts produced the only known photographs of the Birkenau extermination unit at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Much of the site of the death camp was cleared by forced labor. Today, buildings and ruins remain on the site. More prisoners came from Hungary than any other country, with people from Poland , and France 69, making up the next largest national groups.
Among the total number of children sent to Auschwitz, the exact number who were killed remains unknown. However, on a single day— October 10, — children were gassed to death. A giant pile of shoes left behind by the camp's victims are preserved by the Auschwitz-Birkenau foundation, whose inventory also comprises 3, suitcases; more than 88 pounds of eyeglasses; striped uniforms; prayer shawls, and more than 12, pots and pans brought to the camp by victims who believed they would eventually be resettled.
The hangar of shoes at Auschwitz concentration camp. Among the number of prisoners who attempted to escape, were successful and lived to see the end of the war. Many of them were helped by local Polish civilians, who hated the SS and the camp. Every prisoner who manages to escape can count on all possible help as soon as he reaches the first Polish homestead.
The two-story barracks were originally designed to hold prisoners.
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