Arrival at camp – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools
At most camps, prisoners had their belongings confiscated on arrival. At Auschwitz specifically, a group of primarily Jewish prisoners were assigned to collect and sift through these confiscated possessions. Valuables were separated and sorted in large warehouses and then transported back to Germany.
The Arrival - Auschwitz
After all kind of humiliations and margination, expropriations and reclusion in ghettos in inhumane conditions, prisoners from all occupied Europe were transported in fully crammed freight cars, with no water nor food, to Auschwitz.
The unloading ramps and selections - Auschwitz-Birkenau
Almost all the mass transports of Jews to Auschwitz after that date were subject to selection. The third ramp was built from 1943 inside the Birkenau camp, and went into operation in May 1944 in connection with the anticipated arrival of transports of Hungarian Jews.
Selections upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau - Anne Frank House
After the arrival of the eight people from the Secret Annex at Auschwitz-Birkenau on the night of Tuesday 5 to Wednesday 6 September 1944, the first selection took place on the Rampe (loading platform) where men and women were separated. Anne last saw her father there.
Selection (Holocaust) - Wikipedia
A photograph from the Auschwitz Album of selection at Auschwitz II-Birkenau on May 27, 1944. Selection (German: Selektion) was the process of designating inmates either for murder or forced labor at a Nazi concentration camp. [1]
Conditions inside Auschwitz-Birkenau from 1942 – The Holocaust ...
Overall, approximately only 20 per cent of the people who arrived on transports to Auschwitz were selected for forced labour, and the rest were murdered on arrival. Those sent to work were usually given a tattoo with their prisoner serial number.
“Arrival at Auschwitz” by Alfred Kantor | mjhnyc.org
Apr 13, 2021 · The Nazis deported Kantor from Terezin to Auschwitz in 1943, and while there he memorized scenes during the day and drew them in his barrack at night. A Jewish physician assigned to the camp infirmary allowed Kantor to draw there as well, putting them both at great risk of severe punishment.
Helen Goldkind: Arrival at Auschwitz - United States Holocaust …
Jun 17, 2008 · Helen Goldkind discusses her deportation and arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi killing center.
Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database -- Search for Lists
3106 PERSON ARRIVED IN AUSCHWITZ-2/BIRKENAU, FRIDAY DAY BREAK JUNE 2, 1944, at first selection 120-150 ... On arrival to Auschwitz-Birkenau those who Dr. Mengele selected to the left were sent to gas chambers ...
ARRIVAL AT THE CAMP - lekcja.auschwitz.org
After arriving at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, people got off the wagons onto a railway siding inside the camp, put into operation in May 1944. The SS officers ordered women and children to stand up on one side of the ramp and men on the other.