The Last Train To Auschwitz

Auschwitz 1.3 million people sent there 1.1 million died Jews Germans Russians Ethnic Poles French Czech Many Others Auschwitz I (Main Camp) Barracks 1939 Home to Polish Prisoners of War May 1940 First thirty prisoners German Career Criminals Sadism, torture, beatings Tattoos of serial numbers August 1941 First Gassings Soviet and Polish Prisoners Cell Block 11 Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Concentration and Extermination Camp 1942-1944 Jews transported by freight trains Death Gas Chambers Starvation Disease and Torture Executions Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Financed by Private Industry Inmates employed Spring 1941 Walking through town to work July 1941 Factory workers Transported by freight train 1943-1944 35,000 inmates employed Inhumane Conditions Daily Deaths Exhaustion Disease Starvation January 1945 Evacuation The Death March of 9000 Inmates Most were Jews Transported by rail to subcamps Jan. 27th, 1945 Liberation We must never forget, we must teach future generations history. We can never let this happen again. 04/20/2021 Written for The Last Train To Auschwitz Poetry Contest Sponsored by Kai Michael Neumann