- This gas chamber was the largest room in Crematorium I at Auschwitz. The room was originally used as a mortuary but was converted in 1941 into a gas chamber where Soviet POWs and Jews were killed.
- Prisoners from Hungary arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp, about 50 km west of Krakow, Poland, spring 1945
- Fences surround the concentration camp at Auschwitz. An estimated 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 people were exterminated at the camp. A row of chimneys tops the crematorium, were bodies were burned.
- A few of the thousands of wedding rings the Nazis removed from their victims to salvage the gold. U.S. troops found rings, watches, precious stones, eyeglasses, and gold fillings, near the Buchenwald concentration camp. Germany, May 5, 1945.
- During the holocaust the Jews were tortured by the Nazis. The Nazis would take a bunch of the prisoners place them in barns and burn them to death.
- For the prisoners who tried to escape they would be hung on a pole until they were unconscious and they would continue to do this to them.
- During the Holocaust, gas chambers had a major role in how prisoners were murdered. Gas chambers consisted of poisonous chemicals known as Zyclon B.
- Prisoners would be told to go into the gas chambers to take a shower to prevent panic, but once the prisoners entered the disguised shower heads released the deadly gas leaving the prisoners to die .
- Some of the larger gas chambers could kill 2,000 people at once.
- Prisoners would take deep breathes to speed up unconsciousness to prevent suffering .
- Nazis targeted Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists, twins, and the disabled.
- Some of these people tried to hide from the Nazis, like Anne Frank and her family.
- A few were successful, most were not. Those that were captured suffered sterilization, forced resettlement, separation from family and friends, beatings, torture, starvation, and/or death.
- Tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews are forced to leave their homes, and move into specially designated ghetto areas.
- the Auschwitz death camp was liberated by Soviet forces, is marked around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.