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In Kommandant in Auschwitz, he wrote: "In the spring of 1942 the first transports of Jews, all earmarked for extermination, arrived from Upper Silesia." [40] 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.
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Map of the camp's interest zone from 1941. The term Zone of Interest (German: Interessengebiet) was used by the occupying Nazi forces to describe the area around the Auschwitz concentration camp complex reserved for the Schutzstaffel (SS), subject to the administration of the main camp.
A network of Nazi concentration camps were established on German-controlled territories, many of them in occupied Poland, including one of the largest and most infamous, Auschwitz (Oświęcim). [64] Those camps were officially designed as labor camps, and many displayed the motto Arbeit macht frei ("Work brings freedom").
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 .
SS-Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager was a World War II SS military complex and Nazi concentration camp in Pustków and Pustków Osiedle, Occupied Poland. [1] [3] The Nazi facility was built to train collaborationist military units, including the Ukrainian 14th Waffen SS Division "Galician", [3] and units from Estonia. [4]
Oświęcim (Polish: [ɔˈɕfjɛɲtɕim] ⓘ; German: Auschwitz [ˈaʊʃvɪts] ⓘ; Yiddish: אָשפּיצין, romanized: Oshpitzin; Silesian: Uośwjyńćim) is a town in the Lesser Poland (Polish: Małopolska) province of southern Poland, situated 33 kilometres (21 mi) southeast of Katowice, near the confluence of the Vistula (Wisła) and Soła rivers.