What is a crematorium and gas chamber?

Answer 1

• Crematorium: a specially place (oven) where dead bodies are burned to ash.
• Gas chamber: an airtight room that can be filled with poisonous gas to perform executions.

In combination, they are closely associated with the Holocaust.

Answer 2

Gas chambers were large rooms or halls that could be made airtight. The victims were packed tightly inside, the doors shut and then the gas was released. After about 30 minutes the place was ventilated thoroughly and the corpses were put in vast ovens to burn them. These ovens are called crematoria. They were used to exterminate 6 million jews, among others, in what is now called the Holocaust.

Answer 3

a crematorium was a place where people were cremated. A gas chamber was a chamber where people were gassed.