Auschwitz concentration camp
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Auschwitz, also known as Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Aus
Auschwitz I b
Auschwitz
Auschwitz I, 2013 (50°01′39″N 19°12′18″E / 50.0275°N 19.2050°E / 50.0275; 19.2050 (Auschwitz I))
Auschwitz I, 2009; the prisoner reception center of Auschwitz I became the visitor reception center of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
Extermination camp
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Nazi Germany used six extermination camps, also called death camps, or killing centers, in Central Europe, primarily in German-occupied Poland, during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 mi
Auschwitz concentration camp
…Auschwitz (German: ), also known as Oświęcim (Polish: ), was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz…
Sobibor extermination camp view, summer 1943
Two of the four crematoria at Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
Members of the Sonderkommando burned the bodies of victims in the fire pits at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, when the crematoria were overloaded. (August 1944)
Jewish children during deportation to the Chełmno extermination camp