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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 ...
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.
Series: Aerial Photography of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, compiled 1973 - 1973, documenting the period 1944 - 1945 (National Archives Identifier: 305893) NAIL Control Number: NWDNC-263-AUSCHWITZ-19(12) 263-AUSCHWITZ-19(12) Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: Other versions
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 .
Rough ground plan of Auschwitz II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, April 1944: Date: April 1944: Source: Vrba–Wetzler report, p. 22. For the full report, see The Extermination Camps of Auschwitz (Oświęcim) and Birkenau in Upper Silesia 1–33. War Refugee Board (26 November 1944). Author
Series: Aerial Photography of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, compiled 1973 - 1973, documenting the period 1944 - 1945 (National Archives Identifier: 305893) NAIL Control Number: NWDNC-263-AUSCHWITZ-19(03) 263-AUSCHWITZ-19(03) Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: Other versions
Left to right (top to bottom): Concentration camp in Płaszów near Kraków, built by Nazi Germany in 1942 • Inmates of Birkenau returning to barracks, 1944 • Slave labour for the Generalplan Ost, making Lebensraum latifundia • Majdanek concentration camp (June 24, 1944) • Death gate at Stutthof concentration camp • Map of Nazi extermination camps in occupied Poland, marked with ...
The images were taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando, inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers.