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Shooting / Punishments and executions / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau

From the fall of 1941 to the fall of 1943, the majority of executions were carried out in the walled-off yard of block 11 in the main camp.

Punishments and executions / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau

The most frequent punishments were flogging, confinement in block 11 in the main camp, “the post” (strappado or “hanging torture”), or assignment to the penal ...

Executions / Punishments and executions / History / Auschwitz ...

Prisoners sent to the camp as hostages, or with their files marked “return not desired” or “do not transfer,” were killed in Auschwitz.

Block 11 / Punishments and executions / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau

Prisoners confined to death by starvation for escape attempts, or after being selected as hostages in reprisal for escapes by others, were held in the dark ...

The post / Punishments and executions / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau

The victim's hands were tied behind his back and he was hung from a post so that his feet could not touch the ground. The punishment was usually inflicted for ...

Hanging / Punishments and executions / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau

Five participants in an unsuccessful escape attempt two months earlier (three Austrians and two Poles) were hanged in the main camp on December 30, 1944, and ...

Death Penalty for Aiding Jews - Holocaust Encyclopedia

September 5, 1942. On this date, Germans issued this poster announcing the death penalty for anyone found aiding Jews who fled the Warsaw ghetto.

Life in the camp / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau

Punishments and executions · Camp hospitals · Medical experiments · Resistance · Informing the world · Evacuation Pokaż menu niższego poziomu dla Evacuation. In ...

Other punishments / Punishments and executions / History ...

The SS also applied a range of other punishments in Auschwitz. These included bans on sending and receiving letters or parcels, making prisoners squat while ...

Block 11 - Wikipedia

Punishment in these special compartments (one square metre each, with a hole 5x5 cm for breathing), consisted of confining four prisoners, who were forced by ...

Auschwitz - Holocaust.cz

The gas chambers were disguised as showers, meant to persuade the victims that these were disinfection measures which they had to undergo before they were sent ...

Flogging / Punishments and executions / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau

Prisoners were flogged publicly during evening roll call, at first over a stool and later over a special construction called the “goat.” In the main camp, ...

Inside the Nazi State . Auschwitz 1940-1945 . The Killing Evolution

Particularly in Germany and Poland camp commandants experimented with various killing methodologies and consulted with one another on their successes and ...

The Victims - Auschwitz Exhibition

More than 50 percent of the people interned in Auschwitz died to starvation, exhausting work, executions, tortures and punishments, diseases and epidemics.

Treatment of prisoners in the early camps - The Holocaust Explained

Skin was slashed, jaws smashed, organs ruptured, bones broken' [Nik Wachsmann, KL, A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps, (Great Britain: Little, Brown, ...

Explore the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

Tragically, approximately 1.1 million, primarily Jews, met their untimely demise within its confines. The entrance of Auschwitz I bears the German phrase " ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau: Living Conditions, Labor & Executions

Executions were one means of physically liquidating prisoners and people brought from outside the camp. At first, people were shot to death in the pits near the ...

Holocaust remembrance - Portal - The Council of Europe

Many died from starvation, exhaustion, disease, individual executions, or beatings. Others were killed during medical experiments. Photo credit: United States ...

Video history | Block no. 11 and the Wall of Death - YouTube

Block 11, known as the Death Block, was primarily the detention center or a prison inside the Auschwitz camp. In the cells located in the ...

Punishments and Executions - Wollheim Memorial

As an official punishment to deter other prisoners, the SS held public executions in the roll-call square. In particular, prisoners caught in an attempted ...