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The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau) [3] is a museum on the site of the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland. The site includes the main concentration camp at Auschwitz I and the remains of the concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau .
It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labour camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben; and dozens of subcamps. [5] The camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish question.
It has been 80 years since the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration complex. First established in 1940, Auschwitz had a concentration camp, large gas chambers, and ...
The main camp (German: Stammlager) was Auschwitz I. Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, was a concentration and extermination camp, and became the most notorious of the camps. Auschwitz III, or Monowitz, was a labour camp. In addition to the three largest camps, Auschwitz consisted of several subcamps. The satellite camps were named Aussenlager ...
It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Some of the last survivors will be joined by world leaders on Monday, to commemorate the 1.1 million ...
About 50 survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau will return to the site on Monday to remember the day it was finally liberated on 27 January 1945.
Jewish women selected for work at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. View of Flossenbürg after liberation. ... Sachsenhausen concentration camp. List of subcamps of Sachsenhausen;
Located near the village of Treblinka, approximately 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Warsaw. [b] [5] Majdanek (October 1942 – July 1944). Located just outside the city of Lublin. [c] [d] [6] Auschwitz-Birkenau (February 1942 – November 1944). Located near the town of Oświęcim (German: Auschwitz), 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of ...