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Auschwitz
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What were the 3 main camps the Auschwitz complex consisted of?
Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau), and Auschwitz III
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Buna/Monowitz was a sub-camp of which well known death camp?
Auschwitz
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Buchenwald was first open to whom; men or women?
SS Authorities opened Buchenwald for male prisoners in July 1937
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From what camp was Elie liberated and when?
Elie was liberated from Buchenwald on April 11, 1945.
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What was the first camp Elie Wiesel visited?
Auschwitz-Birkenau.
200
What was the Jewish symbol hanging above the entrance to the gas chambers? Is there a significance to that?
The Star of David
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Those who did not pass the initial selection were brought where?
They were brought to the gas chambers and killed.
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Where did the prisoners live in the camp? The SS officials?
Prisoners confined in northern part of the camp. SS and administration located in southern camp.
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How did the prisoners react when they were liberated at Buchenwald?
When they were liberated, the prisoners threw themselves on the food brought by the soldiers, ran into town to get potatoes, and gathered clothes.
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What job was the last Kommando Elie was assigned to at Buna?
The last Kommando Elie was assigned to at Buna was the construction Kommando.
300
Most often, the diets of prisoners consisted of which two foods?
Watery soup and stale bread
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How many prisoners were in Buna by 1944?
10,000 prisoners.
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Name four of the different groups of people interned in Buchenwald.
(Any of four of the following): interned perpetual criminals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), and German military deserters, prisoners-of-war, resistance fighters, prominent former government officials of German-occupied countries, and foreign forced laborers.
300
Describe how the limited food rations affected the prisoners in their later lives.
In their later lives, the prisoners did not recognize themselves, as they were extremely skinny and lacking nutrition. Similarly, many of them became ill and/or died.
300
What were the conditions of the boxcar on which the Jews from Elie’s town arrived at the camp?
The boxcar was extremely cramped and crowded. There was not enough room to stand up and people starved. Some died, however for better or worse many of them survived the trip.
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The fate of the so-called ‘useless’ (when they first entered the camp) was usually what?
They were told that they were taking a shower, but they were gassed without a chance to say goodbye to loved ones.
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Most people at Buna died of what four things?
Starvation, slave labor, savage mistreatments and executions.
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Between July 1937 and April 1945, the SS imprisoned how many people in Buchenwald?
Between July 1937 and April 1945, the SS imprisoned some 250,000 persons from all countries of Europe in Buchenwald.
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Children were split from their parents as soon as they arrived at the camps. How do you think they reacted when they saw them again after liberation?
When children saw their parents after the liberation it was probably a very melancholy moment. They had not seen them since being split up and many most likely did not know how to react or feel.
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When they first arrived at the camp, Elie and his father were instructed to lie about a certain bit of personal information. What was it and why?
They were forced to lie about their age because it allowed Ellie to seem older and his father to seem younger, which guaranteed them better working conditions and not to be killed in the crematoria.
500
How many years did the camp exist and during these years how many people died?
Auschwitz existed 4 and a half years. 1.1 million people died.
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What was a significant event that happened to Buna on January 27th?
On January 27, 1945, the Red Army soldiers liberated the camp.
500
Where were laborers who were deemed weak dispatched? What happened to them there?
selections throughout Buchenwald and dispatched those too weak or disabled to work to euthanasia facilities such as Bernburg, where euthanasia operatives gassed them as part of Operation 14f13, the extension of euthanasia killing operations to ill and exhausted concentration camp prisoners
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Elie says he will never forget the actions of the Nazis and he will never forgive them. How did being at the camps affect these words more than it would had he not experienced them?
Being at the camps affected Elie’s position towards the Nazis because he knew what they were capable of and the other townspeople did not. Therefore, he will not forgive them, since they killed most of his family and scarred him for life.
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What was surprising about how Elie reacted to his father’s death?
When his father died, Elie felt the way he had vowed not to; liberated. In a way, he felt happy, because it made him not have to worry about his father’s well-being or take care of him any longer.