Celia Scott

MY ADVENTURE THROUGH THE HOLOCAUST

AUSCHWITZAuschwitz, also known as “hell on earth,” is one of the

biggest concentration camps from the Holocaust. The life expectancy of a prisoner was only a few months. If you were younger than fourteen, you were killed immediately because you were not strong or useful enough. 6,000 jews, homosexuals, gypsies, etc. were killed a day. You were allowed to write to your family, but it was censored by Gestapos and you had to include one sentence, “I am healthy, I am fine.” If you were thinking about escaping, think again. Once they found out someone escaped, there was a role call done and then Gestapos sent out to get you. Once they found you, you were executed in front of everyone. This travesty finally ended and Auschwitz was liberated January 7, 1945.

Steinbacher, Sybille. Auschwitz. Connecticut. Harner Collins Publisher Inc. 1998. Print.

Ayer, Eleanor. Holocaust. Connecticut. Blackbirch Inc. 1998. Print.

Buszko, Jozef. Auschwitz. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. 1990. Print.

The main entrance to Auschwitz located in Poland.

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DR. JOSEF MENGELEDr. Josef Mengele, also known as “Angel of Death,” was

the main SS doctor at Auschwitz. Mengele was born in Germany on March 16, 1911 and got accepted to Munich University on October 1930. In 1939, Mengele got married to a woman named Irene Schoenbein and had a son together, Rolf. Dr. Mengele had an excessive twin fetish. Mengele loved when twins came to the concentration camps. No one knew why Mengele had this strange addiction. Mengele never was killed but died a natural death from old age.

Cefrey, Holly. Dr. Josef Mengele: Angel of Death. New York. The Rosen Publication Inc. 2001. Print.

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Dr. Josef Mengele was the main doctor at Auschwitz.

EVA BRAUN Eva Braun was Adolf Hitler's wife. Before their marriage,

Braun had always cheered for Hitler. They met in 1929 and married shortly after. Braun herself attempted suicide on the 11th of August 1932 by shooting herself in the chest with her father's pistol.  Historians feel the attempt was not serious, but she was just trying to get Hitler's attention.  After Braun's recovery, Hitler became more committed to her and by the end of 1932, they had become lovers.  She often stayed overnight at his Munich apartment when he was in town. When the Holocaust ended, Braun and Hitler did not want to get arrested and executed so they committed suicide. Braun had bitten into a cyanide capsule, and Hitler had shot himself in the right temple with his pistol.

Ingram, Scott. Adolf Hitler, New York. Blackbirch Press. 2002. Print.

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Eva Braun walking one of her Scottish Terriers at the Berghof.

GESTAPO Gestapos were the secret state police for the

Nazis. Gestapos were originally established by Hermann Göring. Starting on the 20th of April 1934, Heinrich Himmler was the SS national leader. Gestapos were allowed to do plenty more then the average citizen. Gestapos had the freedom to impose “protective custody” and officially gave Rudolf Diels the authority of independence. In 1940, they took control of all Germany.

Aronson, Shlomo. Gestapo. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. 1968. Print.

British troops, searching for Gestapo agents hidden among the ranks of regular German soldiers.

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KRISTALLNACHT Kristallnacht, or “night of the broken glass,” started on

November 10, 1938. It all started because of the assassination of Ernst Vom Rath III. Kristallnacht was the destruction of everything the Jews had by the Germans. At least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks, and 30,000 were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, Jewish homes, hospitals and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers.  Over 1,000 synagogues were burned and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.

Mara, Will, Kristallnacht. New York. Marshall Raven Dish Inc. 2010. Print.

View of the old synagogue in Aachen after its destruction on Kristallnacht.

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ZYKLON BZyklon B is the commercial name for hydrogen cyanide (HCN). Zyklon B is a

highly poisonous pink gas used in extermination camps, especially Auschwitz. Zyklon B starts in a crystalline form, then turns to gas when making contact with air. The workers that brought it to the concentration camps wore gas masks and would slip the crystals through a hole in the wall. When arriving at the camps, the prisoners were told they were going to take a shower, but then, shortly after, you would turn asphyxiated from this terrible poison.

Zyklon B pellets found at the liberation of the Majdanek camp.

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Gutman, Israel. Zyklon B. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. 1967. Print.