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
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
The German camps in occupied Poland during World War II were built by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945 throughout the territory of the Polish Republic, both in the areas annexed in 1939, and in the Gen
PLASZOW German concentration camp near Krakow PL
Birkenau Inmates heading towards the barracks in the camp