ON THIS DAY, JUNE 14, 1940, THE FIRST PRISONERS ARRIVE AT AUSCHWITZ! This is Holocaust Education with E Train! Thank you to holocaustmuseum and firstbookorg for providing such incredible & vitality important learning resources! #neverforget #teachthetruth June 14, 1940. A concentration camp is opened in the Nazi-occupied town of Oswiecim. The camp is known as Auschwitz. At first, political opponents of the Nazis were sent there, both Jewish and Christian, but by the end of World War II, nearly 1.1 million Jewish people were brutally murdered. But it wasn’t just gassing, the Jews were sexually assaulted, tortured, they were experiments, seen as a lower class, seen as if they weren’t even human. When you were sent to Auschwitz, a prisoner number was tattooed on your arm, a harsh reminder of the horrors Jews went through. Although we must remember, it wasn’t just Jewish people that were sent and murdered there. It was LGBTQ+ people, black people, Muslims, anyone who was deemed “inferior...