Auschwitz II, located in the village of Birkenau, or Brzezinka, just outside Oå›wiÄ™cim, was constructed in 1941 on the order of Heinrich Himmler (1900-45), commander of the “Schutzstaffel” (or Select Guard/Protection Squad, more commonly known as the SS), which operated all Nazi concentration camps and death camps.
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Auschwitz: crematorium© posztos/Shutterstock.comAuschwitz was probably chosen to play a central role in the “final solution” because it was located at a railway junction with 44 parallel tracks—rail lines that were used to transport Jews from throughout Europe to their death.
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Auschwitz, Polish Oświęcim, also called Auschwitz-Birkenau, Auschwitz: entrance gates© Lisa Lubin - www.llworldtour.com (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp and extermination camp.
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Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz; 90 percent of them were Jews. Also among the dead were some 19,000 Roma (Gypsies) who were held at the camp until the Nazis gassed them on July 31, 1944—the only other victim group gassed in family units alongside the Jews.
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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. Its first commandant was Rudolf Höss (1900-47), who previously had helped run the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany. Auschwitz was located on a former military base outside Oå›wiÄ™cim, a town in southern Poland situated near Krakow, one of the country’s largest cities.
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During most of the period from 1940 to 1945, the commandant of the central Auschwitz camps was SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain) Rudolf Franz Höss. The death camp and slave-labour camp were interrelated. Newly arrived prisoners at the death camp were divided in a process known as Selektion.
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Oświęcim is the actual Polish name, but the Germans renamed the town Auschwitz. This first camp became the Administrative center for all Auschwitz camps. The second major camp was located in the town of Birkenau (the Polish name for the town is Brzezinka), Poland. This is the Auschwitz death camp. The third major camp was in Monowitz (Monowice), Poland. This was the Auschwitz labor camp.
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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.
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AUSCHWITZ TOUR FROM KRAKOW. Krakow is a good base for visiting Auschwitz. It takes only 1,5 hours to get there by car and our driver will pick you up from your hotel. Auschwitz is a German name for Oswiecim. In 1940 the Nazis established concentration camp there. Soon it became the death factory in which between 1,3 and 1,5 million people lost their lives. 90% of them were Jews.
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Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. Located in southern Poland, Auschwitz initially served as a detention center for political prisoners.
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what city is auschwitz in
Auschwitz is in Oswiecim. Auschwitz is in Oświęcim city. 