The city of Auschwitz, Poland, located in southwestern Poland, was the site of one of the largest of the Nazi extermination camps. The camp was expanded in August, 1942. Camp II was named Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The largest Nazi concentration camp, located 37 miles west of Cracow. Established in 1940, it became an extermination camp when it began receiving deportees in March/April 1942. Eventually it consisted of a number of sections. Auschwitz II-Birkenau was designated as the main extermination camp.
Nazi death camp built near Oswiecim, Poland. Heinrich Himmler ordered its creation on April 27, 1940. Composed of three large camps which housed five crematoria and forty-five subcamps. An estimated 1.1 million people were killed at this death camp.
a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II
A well-known Nazi concentration camp (the largest, in fact) located in Poland, near Krakow.
Notorious death camp in Poland. Opened by the Nazis in 1940, it soon became the largest death camp run by a staff which had acquired experience from other camps. Supervised by SS Captain Rudolf Hoess, the camp eventually took the lives of over 2 million people by means of gassing, starvation, overwork, and disease. At its peak, with the gas chambers and crematoria operating full time, as many as 24,000 people were put to death each day.
A complex consisting of concentration, extermination, and labor camps in Upper Silesia. It was established in 1940 as a concentration camp and included a killing center in 1942. Auschwitz 1: The main camp. Auschwitz II (Also known as Birkenau): The extermination center. Auschwitz III (Monowitz): The I.G. Farben labor camp, also known as Buna. In addition, there were numerous subsidiary camps.
located in Poland, it is the most infamous of the concentration camps; 200,000,000 people were killed there.
A large complex of three camps. Auschwitz I was the main concentration camp; Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, was the death camp where more than 1.6 million perished; and Auschwitz III, or Buna-Monowitz, was a huge slave labor camp.
Largest and most notorious of all the concentration camps; was both a slave labor camp and a death camp.
City in Southwestern Poland near Kracow near which the most famous and largest concentration and death camps were located. By the end of 1942, Auschwitz was the center of the "Final Solution."
The Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps were liberated by Soviet troops in January 1945. The Soviets discovered hundreds of corpses from people who were recently murdered, thousands of people barely alive, and the earthly remains of approximately one million men and women.
A Nazi concentration camp and death camp 37 miles west of Cracow, in Upper Silesia, Poland. Established in 1940 as a concentration camp, it became a death camp in early 1942. It consisted of three sections: Auschwitz I, the main camp and administrative center; Auschwitz II (Birkenau), a combination of a concentration camp and a death camp; Auschwitz III (Monowitz) the labor camp also known as Buna. Auschwitz also had many subsidiary camps.
Name for concentration and death camp Oswiecim, located in southern Poland, which was in fact a complex of forty smaller camps in the region
A complex of concentration, labor and extermination camps located approximately 40 miles west of Cracow in Upper Silesia (Poland). Established in 1940 as a concentration camp, it became a killing center in 1942. Auschwitz I was the central camp. Auschwitz II, also known as Birkenau, was the killing center. Auschwitz III, or Monowitz, was the IG Farben labor camps, also known as BUNA. In addition, there were numerous subsidiary camps. Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Army on January 27, 1945.
Auschwitz was a German concentration camp in Poland during World War II. There, and in other death camps, German forces killed more than 6 million people, most of them Jews. This effort at genocide is now referred to as the Holocaust.