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Friday, 22 March 2019

Auschwitz



Auschwitz is concentration camp there were over 40 concentration camps 
that were built and operated by the Nazis and Germany that were occupied
during world war 2 it was called the holocaust. This summary is about a lady 
who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp and explains her journey 
through this horrific event her name is Kitty Hart Moxon.
Over one million people died through this horrible event in Auschwitz. 
Kitty was 17 when she arrived in Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a known as 
the factory of death and no one was intended to survive. Once Kitty arrived in 
Auschwitz she described the people as ghost like figures with bald scaly heads,
ripped clothes,big eyes and they all screamed different languages. It was one of
the largest camps out of 44 camps in Auschwitz.
In the concentration camps the prisoners had to work in any circumstances even 
if it might kill them or they were killed anyway. Kitty's job was to help build a new
rail line at the concentration camp. In the camp they had a ramp where some children 
and most elderly were sent directly to there death and some to do slave labor.
In Auschwitz ladies weren't allowed to keep their hair so they cut it off and shipped it to 
make ignition mechanisms in bombs and others things.

The sheds that they slept in were meant for only 52 horses but they forced 1000 prisoners 
to live there each bunker got 1 straw mattress 1 blanket if you were lucky and it was 
shared between eight prisoners at the camps. But the thing that most prisoners feared 
was selections because if they were selected they were sent to gas chambers to await 
their deaths. In 1944 five gas chambers were work at full capacity.

Kitty and her mother left Auschwitz on April 14th 1945 they went through 6 camps and 
witnessed several death marches. There was a place called lobsters water for most people 
that were in Auschwitz this was their final place.
30 members of Kitty's family were murdered by the Nazis including her Father and 
Grandmother. But her Mother Rosa Felix after she escaped lived most of her life in Birmingham,England where she died peacefully in 1974 at the age 84. Kitty Hart Moxon 
currently lives in England where she has two sons and eight grandchildren and she said 
that she is gonna continue telling her story.

Bradley

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