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In the course of the war, the camp was staffed by 6,500 to 7,000 members of the German Schutzstaffel (SS), approximately 15 percent of whom were later convicted of war crimes. Some, including camp commandant Rudolf Höss, were executed. The Allied Powers refused to believe early reports of the atrocities at the camp, and their failure to bomb the camp or its railways remains controversial. One hundred and forty-four prisoners are known to have escaped from Auschwitz successfully, and on October 7, 1944, two Sonderkommando units—prisoners assigned to staff the gas chambers—launched a brief, unsuccessful uprising.
As Soviet troops approached Auschwitz in January 1945, most of its population was evacuated and sent on a death march. The prisoners remaining at the camp were liberated on January 27, 1945, a day now commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the following decades, survivors such as Primo Levi,Viktor Frankl, and Elie Wiesel wrote memoirs of their experiences in Auschwitz, and the camp became a dominant symbol of the Holocaust. 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.
The ideology of Nazism brought together elements of antisemitism, racial hygiene, and eugenics, and combined them with pan-Germanism and territorial expansionism with the goal of obtaining more Lebensraum (living space) for the Germanic people.[10] Nazi Germany attempted to obtain this new territory by attacking Poland and the Soviet Union, intending to deport or kill the Jews and Slavs living there, who were viewed as being inferior to the Aryan master race.[11] After the invasion of Poland in September 1939,
German dictator Adolf Hitler ordered that the Polish leadership and intelligentsia should be destroyed.[12] Approximately 65,000 civilians were killed by the end of 1939. In addition to leaders of Polish society, the Nazis killed Jews, prostitutes, Romani, and the mentally ill.[13][14] SS-Obergruppenführer (Senior Group Leader) Reinhard Heydrich, then head of the Gestapo, ordered on September 21 that Jews should be rounded up and concentrated into cities with good rail links. Initially the intention was to deport the Jews to points further east, or possibly to Madagascar.[15]
WW2 GERMAN NAZI HOLOCAUST CONCENTRATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ JEWISH INMATE PERSONAL BELONGING GLASSES
a museum piece of history !!
Concentration Camp Auschwitz subcamp forced labor BATA Waffen SS tool
the Fabrik BATA a known company was managed by the Waffen SS and used inmates from Auschwitz subcamp in their faktory.
this is a shoe tool marked
Just before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Baťa helped re-post his Jewish employees to branches of his firm all over the world.[9][10] Germany occupied the remaining part of pre-war Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939; Jan Antonín Baťa then spent a short time in jail but was then able to leave the country with his family. Jan Antonín Baťa stayed in America from 1939–1940, but when the USA entered the war, he felt it would be safer for his co-workers and their families back in occupied Czechoslovakia if he left the United States. He was put on British and US black lists for doing business with the Axis powers, and in 1941 he emigrated to Brazil. After the war ended, the Czechoslovak authorities tried Baťa as a traitor, saying he had failed to support the anti-Nazi resistance. In 1947 he was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison. The company's Czechoslovak assets were also seized by the state – several months before the communists came to power. He tried to save as much as possible of the business, submitting to the plans of Germany as well as financially supporting the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile led by Edvard Beneš.
In occupied Europe, a Bata shoe factory was connected to the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.[11] The first slave labour efforts in Auschwitz involved the Bata shoe factory.[12] In 1942 a small camp was established to support the former Bata shoe factory (now under German administration and renamed "Schlesische Schuh-Werke Ottmuth, A.G") at Chełmek with Jewish slave labourers.[13] The prisoners, mostly from France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, were tasked to clean the ponds from which the plant drew the water it needed.[14] Also slave workers from the ghetto of Radom were forced to work at the Bata factory for a soup a day.[15]
The Baťa factory was bombed by the 15th AF, 455th BG at 1235 hrs using 254 x 500 RDX bombs (63.50 tons). The Strikes fell south in the workers dwellings and carried across eastern half of plant layout. Numerous strikes in this section including warehouses, machine shops and footwear production buildings.[16]
Concentration camp waffen SS totenkopf guard vertical skull collar tab with RZM tag
wow, this is an amazing piece of history, very rare to find !
WW2 GERMAN NAZI RARE WAFFEN SS TOTENKOPF CONCENTRATION CAMP SS GUARD NCO TUNIC REMOVED COLLAR TAB SKULL
WW2 GERMAN NAZI HOLOCAUST CONCENTRATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ JEWISH INMATE PERSONAL BELONGING GLASSES
THIS COMES FROM A EX-EMPLOYEE OF AUSCHWITZ IN THE 80s who "picked up" some inmate's personal belonging in the archives of auschwitz.
he explained to me that it was too many items and some extra went to trash and he picked up some.
provenance is 100%, i saw some employee documents with his photos and old photos of him with the items he picked up.
unfortunately, he wanted to keep these private.
this is almost the last item i have from this.
I CAN MAKE A CERTIFICAT OF PROVENANCE FOR THIS ITEM
a museum piece of history !!
Concentration Camp Auschwitz Woman inmate survivor ID patch - political Polish prisoner
unique piece of history !
the woman survived Auschwitz, she is in the Database with her mug photos
see last photo
Klos, Joanna
(prisoner number: 9684)
born: 1920-07-24
Fate:
1. 1942-07-19, Auschwitz, arrived to camp
2. released 26.2.1943 from KL Auschwitz,
the second number looks like a 5 but it's a 6.
This patch comes directly from the relatives - family of the inmate.
Concentration camp Waffen SS totenkopf guard metal dog disk ID numbered
from a dog that was owned by a ss totenkopf guard in concentration camp Auschwitz - Birkenau (found in the area)
Concentration camp inmate uniform patch ID Holocaust
very rare to find.
WW2 GERMAN NAZI RARE CONCENTRATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ DOOR HANDLE BARAK
a contact of mine in Krakow have a company that renovated houses and industrial buildings.
he had a contrat in the 90s to change some barbed wire in birkenau when they made some replacements.
i asked him then to try to get some parts and he did. i got some barbed wire and some porcelain fences (listed) AND SOME RANDOM STUFF THAT HE WAS ABLE TO PICKED UP
THIS WAS PART OF.
IT WAS IN TRASH FROM A BARAK THAT THEY DEMOLISHED IN BIRKENAU
WOW THIS IS A UNIQUE PIECE, LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY!
IT'S A SS SECRET FOLDER WITH SOME PAGES AND PLANS ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SPECIFIC PART OF CONCENTRATION CAMP BARAKS.
ALSO A PAPER FROM THE WAFFEN SS.
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN IN THE HANDS OF SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Rudolf Hess, WHO WAS THE CAMP RESPONSIBLE AT THIS PERIOD...
THIS IS A MUSEUM PIECE, IMPORTANT HISTORICAL ARTIFACT DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE HOLOCAUST - SHOA
