How did they die?

The Holocaust What is Auschwitz like today?

The way people were murdered was as horrific as the numbers involved.

The Nazis set up what were called concentration camps, which were like factories for mass producing death.

Around 2.7 million Jews were murdered during 1942. This was the most intense period of killing in the Holocaust.

Victims were rounded up in towns and cities and sent to the camps in train carriages normally used for cattle.

Prisoners at camps like Auschwitz were starved, often tortured and worked to death.

Millions were shot, hanged or executed in specially built poison gas chambers.

When British troops entered the concentration camp at Belsen they found 60,000 starving survivors and 27,000 unburied bodies.