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Auschwitz: a prisoner camp, an industrial camp, and a death camp
“…Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habit, his cloth, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often easily loses himself. He will be a man whose life or death can be lightly decided with no sense of human affinity, in the most fortunate of cases, on the basis of a pure judgment of utility (Levi 23).
This description might be overwhelming, but the truth is that this is a factual description of millions of people that suffered in concentration camps located all over Europe during World War II; although these concentration camps were like living hell, one concentration camp was more infamous than the others camps. For many people Auschwitz may be synonymous of death chamber, death factory, genocide, holocaust and many others horrifying......

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