Things People Remember
Chaim Hirszman remembered that "a transport of children up to three years of age arrived. The workers were told to dig a big hole into which the children were thrown into and buried alive. I can't forget how the earth rose, until the children suffocated." Stanislaw Kozak remembered that "we built barracks close to the side-track of the railway. One barrack was fifty m long and twelve and a half m wide". 

Death Camps

In the early 1940's Germans set up Labor Camps in Belzec district. It was built in connection with Aktion Reinhard for the murder of Jews.

Wirth was appointed inspector of Akton Reinhard death camps at the end of August 1942. Then he was replaced as camp commander of Belzec by Hering.

Gas Chambers
Chambers were thirteen by sixteen feet, they were made out of brick and concrete. For the doors in the chambers they had tin and two airtight doors. There are three wooden chambers filled with sand. The rooms had cracks and there was so many people in it that some survived. The workers had to shoot the people who survived. After all the people were dead and the worker had to move the bodies to burial pits. 

                                                                                         

Nazis
Nazis tried to dig up graves and burn the bodies. They tried to hide the evidence from their crime at the end of the war, but they didn't have the time to finish the job. So now when people walk on the ground they are walking on dead bodies. 

People in the Holocaust
Edward Luczynski was a person in the Holocaust  in 1964 he said, "After the doors were opened, it was often ascertained that some of the children and adults were still alive. Children on the and adults with their faces pressed against cracks sometimes were still managed to survive. The survivors were killed......"  Jewish workers had to remove gold teeth from the bodies. Kurt Gerstein saw allot of killings. He saw how the Jews were forced to undress. In 1942 he was head of Technical Disinfection Department of the Waffen SS. He was responsible for improving gas chambers by putting prussic acid (Zyklon B) in them. He then was sent on a mission to introduce Zyklon B gassing into the Nazi death camps in stead of gas engines. 

Holocaust Children
A five year old girl dropt her necklace going into the chamber. Then a three year old boy picked it up as he went into the chamber. There were so many victims that they were crammed so tightly that they couldn't move. Some people say that about 1.5 million children were murdered.

Gasses
Cyanide B (a gas) was made by private firms. Sometimes they would use gasoline and diesel fuel. They also used carbon monoxide to kill the victims. 

Killings
It takes up to 40-60 rail trucks to transport the Jews with about 2,000-2,500 Jews in each one. The killings took up to 30min. in the gas chambers. The SS killed up to 1,200 Jews were at once. There were about 600,000 Jews were murdered. 80,000 Jews were killed in the ghettos. Most of the guards used their ammo to shoot escaping Jews before they went into Belzec. 

Conclusion
Back then they should of stopped Hitler before he got too much power. The Jews should of gotten together and fought for them selves. If they did then probably most of the Jewish population wouldn't be wiped out.
   
Austin Ingwerson

7th Grade Holocaust Project

Rossville Jr. High, April 2005

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