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Casting of Majdanek gas chamber door

This casting of a gas chamber door in the Majdanek killing center, near Lublin, Poland, was ... , forced-labor camp, and killing center. Each gas chamber in Majdanek was fitted with an airtight metal ... door and was bolted shut before gas entered the chamber inside. SS guards could observe the killing

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Facilities equipped with gas chambers, 1939-1944

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Hungarian Jews on their way to the gas chambers.

Hungarian Jews on their way to the gas chambers. Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, May 1944.

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Interior of a gas chamber at the Majdanek camp.

Interior of a gas chamber at the Majdanek camp. Majdanek, Poland, after July 24, 1944.

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Gas chamber in the main camp of Auschwitz immediately after liberation.

Gas chamber in the main camp of Auschwitz immediately after liberation. Poland, January 1945.

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In August 1943 a gas chamber was installed in this building, seen here after the liberation of the camp, in the Natzweiler-Strut

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The entrance to the gas chamber in Auschwitz I, where Zyklon B was tested on Soviet prisoners of war.

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Gassing Operations

vans. In 1942, systematic mass killing in stationary gas chambers (with carbon monoxide gas generated ... arms to allow as many people as possible to fit into the gas chambers. The tighter the gas chambers ... chambers. The gas chambers were relatively small, constructed to kill those prisoners the Nazis deemed ... "unfit" to work. Most of these camps used Zyklon B as the killing agent in their gas chambers. Further

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Concentration Camps, 1939–1942

authorities constructed gas chambers for use to kill people at several of the concentration camps. Gas ... chambers were constructed at Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, Auschwitz I, and other camps. A gas chamber was

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Killing Centers: An Overview

death in the gas chambers (with the exception of very small numbers chosen for special work teams known ... gas chambers (using Zyklon B poison gas) in operation. At the height of the deportations, up to 6 ... Sonderkommandos) were forced to remove corpses from the gas chambers and cremate them. The grounds of some killing ... 2,700,000 Jews in the killing centers either by asphyxiation with poison gas or by shooting. CHELMNO

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Belzec: Chronology

chambers are constructed in a wooden building and will operate with carbon monoxide gas. The camp will be ... in the gas chambers. GASSING OPERATIONS BEGINMarch 17, 1942 The systematic mass murder of Jews begins ... order to replace the wooden building housing the gas chambers with a more substantial building. SS and ... police authorities construct a larger building with six gas chambers, capable of killing 1,500 people at

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Mauthausen: Killing Operations

chamber with the capacity to kill up to 80 people at a time by means of Zyklon B gas (prussic acid). In ... killing were available. As in other camps, the Mauthausen authorities began to use gas as a means of ... killing in 1941-1942. Like some other concentration camps, Mauthausen was equipped with a stationary gas ... 1942, the RSHA provided the camp authorities with a mobile gas van with the capacity to kill about 30

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The United States and the Holocaust: Why Auschwitz was not Bombed

in its gas chambers. In desperation, Jewish organizations made various proposals to halt the ... Auschwitz gas chambers; others opposed it. Like some Allied officials, both sides feared the death toll or ... killing center between May 15 and July 11, 1944. Moreover, barracks located not far from the gas chambers ... subsequent decades, the Allied decision not to bomb the gas chambers in or the rail lines leading to

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Killing Centers

them in stationary gas chambers into which truck engines pumped deadly carbon monoxide gas. A minority ... Detachment), worked in the killing area. They removed bodies from the gas chambers and initially buried them ... , relinquishment of valuables, and movement of new arrivals into the gas chambers. They also sorted the possessions ... sent directly to two makeshift gas chambers. During spring 1942, in the wake of the Wannsee Conference

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Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp: Areas of Research

who died in Majdanek's gas chambers is unknown. In addition to deaths in the main camp, the SS and ... torture or back-breaking labor performed under threat of violence. The SS murdered some in the gas ... chambers: some upon arrival; and more after the SS deemed them too weak to work. The total number of those

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Natzweiler-Struthof

August 1943, a gas chamber was constructed in Natzweiler-Struthof in one of the buildings that had formed ... anthropological study. The gas chamber was also used in pseudoscientific medical experiments involving poison gas

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Perpetrators

established killing centers equipped with gas chambers to facilitate assembly line mass murder. OTHER KEY ... gas chambers ... Albert Speer and Fritz Sauckel. A subsidiary of I.G. Farben provided the Zyklon B gas used to kill in the

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Auschwitz: Chronology

, when he will witness the killing of prisoners in the gas chambers. September 3, 1941The first gassings ... and 250 other ill or weak prisoners. Testing takes place in a makeshift gas chamber in the cellar of ... detachment" (Sonderkommando) that was forced to remove bodies from the gas chambers and operate the ... the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers and crematoria. During this SS attempt to destroy the evidence of

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Behind Every Name a Story—Irene Safran: At Auschwitz

gas chambers. My sisters and I were in the half that went for real showers down the corridor of the ... the gas chambers. If someone couldn't be accounted for, the entire camp had to kneel until the person ... arrival at Auschwitz at dusk on Shavuot, and I believe he was murdered there in the gas chamber. All the ... days at Auschwitz continued much like the first. After the first counting and gas chamber selection was

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Belzec

area where the mass murder took place included the gas chambers and mass graves. Rail tracks ran from ... the gas chambers to the burial pits. Each side of the camp measured 886 feet. Fine boughs woven into ... segregation. The Jews were forced to undress and run through the "tube," which led directly into gas chambers ... located outside the building housing the gas chambers. Carbon monoxide was funneled into the gas chambers

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Auschwitz

for forced labor and sent them immediately to the gas chambers. During 1943 and 1944, four large gas ... Jewish prisoners who had been forced to remove bodies from the gas chambers and operate the crematoria ... staged an uprising. They blew up Crematorium IV and its adjacent gas chamber, and also killed several ... staff forced prisoners to dismantle and dynamite the remaining gas chambers to destroy the evidence of

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Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp: Conditions

murder prisoners too weak to work in a makeshift gas chamber. Mass murder operations using poison gas ... gas chambers at Majdanek; at least two were shower rooms reconfigured for use of Zyklon B gas. At ... least one of these two was used to kill human beings. Some sources refer to a third gas chamber, which ... conditions or were killed in the gas chambers after the Germans determined that they could no longer work

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Auschwitz

gas chamber and crematorium. Initially, SS engineers constructed an improvised gas chamber in the ... basement of the prison block, Block 11. Later a larger, permanent gas chamber was constructed as part of ... . The "success" of these experiments led to the adoption of Zyklon B for all the gas chambers at the ... Auschwitz complex. Near Birkenau, the SS initially converted two farmhouses for use as gas chambers

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1944: Key Dates

the majority of them in gas chambers. May 15–18German authorities deport 7,003 German, Austrian, and ... Congress make several requests to the US government to bomb the gas chambers at Birkenau or the rail lines ... gas chambers at Birkenau. August 6SS authorities evacuate the few remaining Jews at Kaiserwald to ... detachment of Jewish prisoners deployed to remove corpses from the gas chambers and burn them) blows up

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Sobibor: Chronology

to murder institutionalized persons with physical and mental disabilities in gas chambers at ... . The camp staff conducts gassing operations in three gas chambers located in one brick building. Some ... kill virtually all of the deportees upon arrival in reconstructed and newly added gas chambers ... facilities like Hartheim, Stangl was familiar with using carbon monoxide gas for killing large numbers of

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