opening. Within 20 to 30 minutes, the new arrivals were dead. The guards shaved the heads of the corpses and removed any gold teeth from their mouths. Then they burned the bodies in crematoriums or open pits. The able-bodied prisoners had their heads shaved and their belongings seized. Camp personnel tattooed a number on the arm of each person, from then on; the prisoners were identified by the number instead of by name. These prisoners were forced to work long hours under cruel conditions, when they were too weak to work any longer, they too were killed or left to die. There were six death camps, all in German occupied Poland Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. Auschwitz was the largest and most notorious of all these camps. It was a slave labor camp as well as a killing center, about 11 million people were murdered there....
