Auschwitz concentration camp

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the location?Oświęcim, occupied Poland
2. What is the estimated deportations?Approximately 1.3 million people sent to the camp complex
3. What was Auschwitz and why is it important to remember?Auschwitz was a camp in Poland where the Nazis killed many people. Remembering it helps us learn not to repeat such cruelty.
4. How many people were sent to Auschwitz and what happened to them?About 1.3 million people were brought to Auschwitz. Most were sent to gas chambers; others faced hard work and sickness.

Holocaust: The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
Final Solution to the Jewish Question: The Nazi plan for the genocide of the Jewish people, implemented through mass murder.
Sonderkommando: Work units composed of Jewish prisoners forced to assist in the disposal of bodies from gas chambers and crematoria.
Gassing: The method of mass murder used in Auschwitz II-Birkenau, employing poison gas.