Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Aerial video of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Thanks to the robot-technology, you can see
a site like a flying bird. Auschwitz, a concentration camp set by Nazi during
World War II had its 70th anniversary since its liberation by the
Soviet troops. But it was after over a million innocent people were killed.
For those who aren’t so familiar with what
Auschwitz or holocaust is about, here is a brief summary from Wikipedia.
Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold
Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. Auschwitz
II–Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazi "Final Solution to
the Jewish question". From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains
delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe,
where they were killed with the pesticide Zyklon B. At least 1.1 million
prisoners died at Auschwitz, around 90 percent of them Jewish. Others deported
to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Romani and Sinti, 15,000 Soviet
prisoners of war, 400 Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and tens of thousands
of people of diverse nationalities. Many of those not killed in the gas
chambers died of starvation, forced labor, infectious diseases, individual
executions, and medical experiments. The prisoners remaining at the camp were
liberated on January 27, 1945, a day now commemorated as International
Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of
Auschwitz I and II, and in 1979, it was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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