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The Nazis deported Jews from nearly every European country to the Auschwitz II (Birkenau) killing center in occupied Poland. In all, at least 1.1 million Jews and tens of thousands of other people perished in Auschwitz.
- Auschwitz Environs, Summer 1944
Map Auschwitz environs, summer 1944. Auschwitz was the...
- Poland: Maps
Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis established five killing...
- Auschwitz Camp Complex: Maps
Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans....
- Auschwitz Environs, Summer 1944
In Kommandant in Auschwitz, he wrote: "In the spring of 1942 the first transports of Jews, all earmarked for extermination, arrived from Upper Silesia." On 15 February 1942, according to Danuta Czech, a transport of Jews from Beuthen, Upper Silesia (Bytom, Poland), arrived at Auschwitz I and was sent straight to the gas chamber.
Auschwitz-Birkenau. Auschwitz-Birkenau is the generic name given to the cluster of concentration, labour and extermination camps established by the Nazis during the Second World War and located near the towns of Oświęcim and Brzezinka in southern Poland, some 60 km from Kraków. Overview. Map. Directions.
The first inmates, German criminals and Polish political prisoners began arriving in Auschwitz I in May 1940. The Birkenau camp was created at first to contain Soviet prisoners of war. After...
Extermination camps were killing centers designed to carry out genocide. Between 1941 and 1945, the German Nazis established six extermination camps in German-occupied Polish territory - Chelmno , Belzec , Sobibor , Treblinka , Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek .
