Auschwitz
BirkenauGerman Nazi
Concentration
And Extermination Camp
And Extermination Camp
Facts
& Statistics
Original function: concentration camp
Country: Poland
Website: http://en.auschwitz.org
Location
Description
Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, Auschwitz (Stammlager)
- a team of German Nazi concentration camps which existed in 1940-1945 in the
suburbs of Oświęcim, a Polish city that was annexed
to the Third Reich by the Nazis. Its name was changed to Auschwitz, which also became the name
of Konzentrationslager Auschwitz.
to the Third Reich by the Nazis. Its name was changed to Auschwitz, which also became the name
of Konzentrationslager Auschwitz.
Auschwitz has become a
symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. Today it is a place
of memory and a museum. There you can see people's clothes, photos, personal properties, even hair and the wagons in which the people were transported to the camp. You can see documentation, learn about everyday life, tortures, experiments on the prisoners and ways of mass murders
in the camp. Auschwitz became the largest of the death camps.
of memory and a museum. There you can see people's clothes, photos, personal properties, even hair and the wagons in which the people were transported to the camp. You can see documentation, learn about everyday life, tortures, experiments on the prisoners and ways of mass murders
in the camp. Auschwitz became the largest of the death camps.
It was to be one more
concentration camp of the type that the Nazis had been setting up since the
early 1930s. It functioned in this role throughout its existence. Between
1.2-1.5 million people died at the camps, of whom about 1 million were Jewish.
by Natalia Berak
