{"id":208,"date":"2016-07-12T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/?p=208"},"modified":"2023-07-19T10:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:59:06","slug":"auschwitz-birkenau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/hopelife\/news\/2016\/07\/auschwitz-birkenau\/","title":{"rendered":"Auschwitz-Birkenau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2016, Choreographer, Carisa Armstrong, traveled to Krakow, Poland during Christmas Break. Just outside of this beautiful ancient town is the concentration camp and the largest extermination center, Auschwitz-Birkenau. These places were also known as Auschwitz I and II. The original portion of the camp was housed on the grounds and in the buildings of prewar Polish barracks housing up to 20,000 prisoners. The expansion to the Birkenau camp (housing over 90,000 prisoners) added four huge crematoria, housing 8 gas chambers and 46 ovens that could dispose of 4,400 corpses per day. In the early days, the train stopped outside of the camp and the prisoners had to walk a long distance to enter and be sorted. The Nazi\u2019s decided that to make their killing operation more efficient they would extend the train tracks into the camp itself to cut down on the amount of time it took to sort prisoners into the work detail (about 10-30% of the arrivals) and those sent to the gas chambers. For more information on Auschwitz-Birkenau: http:\/\/auschwitz.org\/en\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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