"The extermination of Jews at KL Auschwitz" is a new online lesson created by the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. The author of the lesson is Dr Piotr Setkiewicz, the head of the Research Center of the Auschwitz Memorial.
At the beginning it describes the history of Jewish prisoners that Germans brought to Auschwitz before the beginning of mass extermination in gas chambers.
The lesson then analyses the chronology of events in spring 1942 when Auschwitz was turned into a center of extermination of Jews in gas chambers
1942 when Auschwitz was turned into a center of mass extermination of Jews.
It also describes the situation of of Jewish prisoners, history of the Jewish resistance as well as a unique story of a family camp for Jews deported from Theresienstadt ghetto.
The lesson is available in:
• ENGLISH
• FRENCH
• GERMAN
• POLISH
• SPANISH
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