JWST 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Jewish Question, Synthetic Rubber, Extermination Camp
Document Summary
At least 1. 3 million people were deported to auschwitz. Most of them were killed upon arrival and the majority of those who perished there were jews - over 900,000. The second group was non-jewish ethnic poles - at least. 150,000 died and also the roma population - about. Only in auschwitz prisoners were given tattoos and only those who were selected for work. The trains that arrived at auschwitz unlike the other centers, came from all over europe - the majority of. Jews who died at auschwitz were european jews. The european jews deported from western europe did not reside in ghettos, they were put on transport to auschwitz and they were usually rounded up with help from the locals and some of the nazis there. In most places there was some level of cooperation. There were some exceptions to the ghettos, there were transit camps or temporary ghettos.
