All roads lead to auschwitz
Imagine being crammed into trains with hundreds of other people. Friends, family, neighbors, strangers, packed closer than sardines in a train car on the way to an unknown location. Children are crying, parents are anxious to know the fate of themselves and their children. And then you arrive. You are stripped of your personal belongings and treated carelessly. After stepping off the train, you are sorted. People you know and people you don't know are taken from you, some of whom you'll never see again. Husbands are separated from their wives and children. You are thrown to work, horrible, back breaking work, wishing it would kill you to spare you from the horrors surrounding you. Everyday, people die. Corpses lie on the street, soldiers shoot your friends and family like they don't care about their lives and rights as humans, because they don't. Because in their eyes, you aren't human. You are worthless. You are going to die. Thick, black ash filters through the air. You are starving. You are weak. You are alone. You are a prisoner of Auschwitz.
You have arrived at the gates of Hell.
Auschwitz was divided into three main camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz. These camps were the killing machines of the Holocaust. Auschwitz originated as a concentration camp, and was closed as a death camp. Over one million Jews lost their lives at Auschwitz alone.
You have arrived at the gates of Hell.
Auschwitz was divided into three main camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz. These camps were the killing machines of the Holocaust. Auschwitz originated as a concentration camp, and was closed as a death camp. Over one million Jews lost their lives at Auschwitz alone.