Death Camps

Treblinka

The camp was divided into three parts: the reception area, the living area, and the killing area. The living area contained housing for Nazis and the guards. It also contained offices, storerooms, and workshops. One section had barracks that housed Jewish prisoners that had been transported for labor to speed the killing process.

A map of a section of Treblinka numbered with the stations that the prisoners went to.

Auschwitz

Auschwitz was the largest of the concentration or death camps, opened in 1940 located in Southern Poland. People in Auschwitz were mostly killed by slave labor and gas chambers. The prisoners in Auschwitz were also subjected to medical experiments such as changing eye color in children, led by Josef Mengele. Josef Mengele was a doctor in the Auschwitz camp who preformed the medical experiments. He was given the nickname "the Angel of Death" because of his barbaric experiments.

Josef Mengele