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Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis established five killing centers in German-occupied Poland — Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz-Birkenau (part of the Auschwitz camp complex). Chelmno and Auschwitz were established in areas annexed to Germany in 1939.
- Auschwitz Environs, Summer 1944
Auschwitz II (Birkenau) was the killing center at Auschwitz....
- Auschwitz Camp Complex: Maps
Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans....
- Auschwitz
Auschwitz is the German name for the Polish city Oświęcim....
- Auschwitz Environs, Summer 1944
- Auschwitz: Genesis of Death Camps. After the start of World War II, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, implemented a policy that came to be known as the “Final Solution.”
- Auschwitz: The Largest of the Death Camps. Auschwitz, the largest and arguably the most notorious of all the Nazi death camps, opened in the spring of 1940.
- Auschwitz and Its Subdivisions. At its peak of operation, Auschwitz consisted of several divisions. The original camp, known as Auschwitz I, housed between 15,000 and 20,000 political prisoners.
- Life and Death in Auschwitz. By mid-1942, the majority of those being sent by the Nazis to Auschwitz were Jews. Upon arriving at the camp, detainees were examined by Nazi doctors.
2 days ago · Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp and extermination camp. Located near the industrial town of Oświęcim in southern Poland (in a portion of the country that was annexed by Germany at the beginning of World War II), Auschwitz was actually three camps in one: a prison camp, an extermination camp, and a slave-labour camp.
- Michael Berenbaum
Open full screen to view more. This map was created by a user. Learn how to create your own. Locations of several German concentration camps. www.hitlerpages.com.
In 1947, Poland founded the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, and in 1979 it was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Auschwitz is the site of the largest mass murder in a single location in history.
