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Just imagine being forced into a rail car knowing that you are on your way to the place you are going to die, the scared feeling that you may never see your family or friends again is the way that millions of Jewish people felt during the Holocaust on their way to the Auschwitz concentration camps. Auschwitz polish prisoner Pavel Stemin said, “Death, death, death. Death at night, death in the morning, death in the afternoon. Death. We lived with death. How could a human feel?” (Laurence, 2005) Auschwitz was a trio of concentration camps separated by forty-four rail lines, sending Jews to their death. (Berenbaum, 2012) Auschwitz one was the smallest of the three camps and used for mostly political prisoners, the first delivery of Polish prisoners came in June of 1940, and the camp was mostly contained Poles and Germans, the camp held over sixteen thousand prisoners at once. (Berenbaum, 2012). Auschwitz one also held all of the main offices for the complex, this part of the camp also contain the supply stores and workshops which was the main assignment for labor in the Auschwitz one camp. (Franciszek, 1999) In October of 1944 a camp was built for thousands of women prisoners which employed them producing artillery-shell fuse in a factory that opened which was considered a camp extension. (Franciszek, 1999) Auschwitz two or Birkenau was the largest of the camps in the Auschwitz complex, and was the main extermination camp and was constructed in October of 1941, included inside of Birkenau was around three hundred prison barracks and four large bathhouses (Berenbaum, 2012). The camp opened in March of 1942 as just a branch of Auschwitz for just prisoners, and soon after started exterminating. (Franciszek, 1999) Most of the people who died at Auschwitz concentration camps were at Birkenau, around ninety percent. All of the Polish people who lived in the village of Brzezinka and areas around it, had their homes destroyed and were forced into the camp