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Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
The gate to the concentration camp Auschwitz.
The sign reads "Work makes one free."
It gave the Jewish prisoners a sort of ironic hope for the future.
Over 1.5 million people were killed in Auschwitz alone.
By the end of World War II, over six million Jews had been slaughtered by the Nazi's.
Among the Nazi's other targets were gypsies, homosexuals, and enemies of the government.
Click on the map to go to the self-pronouncing web site of the major concentration camps.
There were many major camps in occupied Poland, Russia, and Germany. There were two different types of camps: work camps and death camps. Prisoners at work camps survived only if they remained healthy. The sick, old, very young, and often women were exterminated first because they were not considered 'useful' to the cause. Extermination was performed in a varity of ways: bullets, gas chambers, and starvation were some of the most common methods the SS men used.
The gate in to the Krakow Ghetto A family in Krakow (the town which Oskar Schindler lived in) moves thier belongings in to the Ghetto. The first stage of Hitler's plan to make Germany 'judenfrei' (free of Jews) was to move all of the Jews in to ghettos: completely enclosed areas of the city. Jews were not allowed to travel from one part to another with a special work permit or Blauschein.