Upon first arrival at the concentration camp, prisoners underwent a selection process where the weak and ill were separated and sent to the gas chambers to be killed, while others deemed able to work were temporarily spared. Personal items were confiscated by Nazis and kept for their own use, while some prisoners had their gold fillings forcibly removed from their teeth. Those selected for death were deceived into entering gas chambers disguised as shower rooms, where they were killed using poison gas. Their remains were then cremated in the crematorium to destroy evidence.

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Justin Baker
HOLOCAUST PROJECT

2.  Selection took place
 Personal items where taken
 Cut off the men's beards
 Made them undress
 Took their gold fillings out their teeth
 Taken to the gas chamber
FIRST DAY AT CONCENTRATION
CAMP

3. Selection was the process used to weed out the week and ill from the ones that
were still able to work. This process happened when prisoners first arrived.
Women were separated from the men and formed two groups. If someone
was too sick or looked weak Nazis took them out of line and sent them to the
gas chambers.
SELECTION

4. Death camps were built solely for the extermination of the Jews by means of
gassing and cremating. In death camps Jews didn’t get the option to live. They
were there to be eliminated. In concentration camps Jews were either selected
to work or selected to die. “Only a small percentage was selected for labor in
the camp itself, labor in munitions plants at satellite camps, or the “medical”
experiments of Dr. Josef Mengele and his staff ” (Vashem 2015). In
concentration camps they were forced to do backbreaking work and only got
scraps of food or rations
DEATH CAMPS VS.
CONCENTRATION CAMPS

5. The Jews personal items were taken by the Nazis when they first arrived at
camps and locked up and kept for themselves. The Nazis kept the Jews gold
and other items for their own pleasure. Some Jews did survive but didn’t see
their stuff for years after the Holocaust.
PERSONAL ITEMS

6. Gas chambers were used to execute Jews that had been chosen to die. Jews
were tricked into entering these death traps. The Nazis would tell them to
strip naked in order to be disinfected but really they were going to be killed.
The Crematorium was a place the Nazis took the remains of people who
where killed in the gas chambers. They would take the remains and burn them
so no evidence was left behind (Yashem 2015).
CREMATORIUM & GAS CHAMBERS

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