Thursday, February 20, 2014

Auschwitz death camp?




Em J


I'm writing a paper on Auschwitz and i cant find out how many people they would put on the train and how long the ride was!? can anyone help? Thank you much!


Answer
I think that your question is probably impossible to answer with any precision. Prisoners arrived at Auschwitz from all over German-occupied Europe, so to speak of "the train", as if there were only one train, and of "how long the ride was", as if the prisoners travelled from only one place, is rather inaccurate. Before the war, the town of Oswiecim had 44 railway lines running into it, so, by the time of the German occupation, it was a railway hub for that region, and therefore a good choice for the Auschwitz camps (note that there was not just one camp at Auschwitz).
If you enter 'death trains to Auschwitz' into the Google search box, you will see some figures that relate to arrivals of prisoners.
I have some information about Camp Westerbork, in the Netherlands. During the war, prisoner transport trains departed every Tuesday evening for what the prisoners thought were "work camps", somewhere "in the East". In May of 1943, 7,766 people departed by train from Westerbork for "work camps", but I do not have any more-detailed information.
You might like to look at this website:
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/AuschwitzScrapbook
Best of luck with your research.

Have you ever went to a camp with no proper toilets...?




I'm Perfec


I've never been to one... the camp I've been to had proper toilets and cabins didn't sleep in tents or anything :-/


Answer
ha you gotta rough it out kid.
when i was backpacking in europe we literally went hiking all day just around and found places to camp and never had proper toilets. we had to piss behind bushes and shit for the whole month we were there. ha
but to be honest that trip was the best month of my life.
it was worth it.




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