I would agree with the previous educator's answer that roughly 4,400 people were murdered every day in the death camp, Auschwitz. Hitler sought to enact "the final solution" against Jewish people. For Hitler and the Nazi Party, this meant a total genocide of all Jewish people living in Nazi controlled areas of Europe. As such, Auschwitz and other death camps focused on murdering as many Jews per day as possible. Other folks, such as nomadic Roma people, gay people, mentally ill people, visibly disabled people, and people of color were also kidnapped and sent to the Nazi death camps. In Daniel's Story, readers are given a glimpse of the horrors that millions of people experienced in these death camps, as well as a glimpse of the scars that those who survived carried with them.
Daniel's Story gives readers a first-hand account of World War II and Nazi Germany through the story told in the eyes of six year old Daniel. In the novel, Daniel and his family live in 1933 Frankfurt, Germany. The story follows the family's journey through the war and their time in Auschwitz: the largest of the German Concentration Camps. When the story ends, Daniel has grown to eighteen years old. While he survives, his mother (Ruth) is one of the many victims of the war and dies in Auschwitz.
It is difficult to know the exact numbers of deaths that occurred at the camp, but it is known that, while in operation, the camp killed 1.1 million people—90% of whom were Jewish. This would mean that during its years of operation, the death camp put to death an average of 4,400 people a day.
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