AuschwitzBirkenau

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Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest and most infamous Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, where over a million Jews and other victims were systematically murdered during the Holocaust.

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instanceOf Holocaust site
Nazi concentration and extermination camp
World War II site
BirkenauBeganOperation 1942
BirkenauConstructionStarted 1941
commemorationDate International Holocaust Remembrance Day
constructionStarted 1940
countryAtTimeOfOperation Nazi Germany-occupied Poland
estimatedNumberOfSurvivorsAtLiberation about 7,000
hasFacility barbed wire fences
barracks
crematoria
gas chambers
railway ramp
watchtowers
hasLanguageVariantName German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Polish: Oświęcim-Brzezinka
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hasPart Auschwitz I
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Auschwitz II-Birkenau
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Auschwitz III-Monowitz
Auschwitz subcamps
hasSelectionProcess arrival platform selections
hasTypeOfExperiment medical experiments on prisoners
sterilization experiments
twin experiments
InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDayDate 27 January
legalAftermath Auschwitz trials in Poland
mentioned in Nuremberg Trials
liberatedBy Red Army
Soviet Union
liberatedOn 27 January 1945
locatedIn Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Oświęcim
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Poland
memorialStatus Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
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museumEstablished 1947
namedAfter nearby village of Brzezinka (Birkenau)
notableEvent death marches during camp evacuation in January 1945
notablePerpetrator Josef Mengele
Rudolf Höss
SS-Totenkopfverbände personnel
notableSurvivor Anne Frank (died after transfer from Auschwitz)
Elie Wiesel
Primo Levi
Viktor Frankl
numberOfJewishVictimsEstimate approximately 1,000,000
numberOfPolishVictimsEstimate at least 70,000–75,000
numberOfRomaVictimsEstimate approximately 21,000
numberOfSovietPOWsVictimsEstimate at least 15,000
numberOfVictimsEstimate over 1,100,000
opened 1940
operatedBy Nazi Germany
Schutzstaffel (SS)
partOf Final Solution
linked to: Holocaust

Nazi concentration camp system
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primaryFunction extermination of Jews
railConnection connected to major European ghettos and cities
secondaryFunction concentration of prisoners
forced labor
symbolOf Holocaust
Nazi genocide
industrialized mass murder
UNESCOCriteria (vi)
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteId 31
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteSince 1979
usedMethodOfKilling Zyklon B
forced labor to death
gas chambers
shootings
starvation
victimGroups Jehovah's Witnesses
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Jews
Poles
Roma and Sinti
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Soviet prisoners of war
homosexuals
other persecuted groups
political prisoners

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Holocaust location NaziConcentrationCamps
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Holocaust location NaziExterminationCamps
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Holocaust notableCamp AuschwitzBirkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau locatedIn Oświęcim
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Auschwitz-Birkenau partOf Nazi concentration camp system
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Auschwitz-Birkenau hasPart Auschwitz I
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Auschwitz-Birkenau hasPart Auschwitz II-Birkenau
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Auschwitz-Birkenau memorialStatus Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
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Auschwitz-Birkenau hasLanguageVariantName German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Auschwitz-Birkenau hasLanguageVariantName Polish: Oświęcim-Brzezinka
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Nazi Germany notableCamp Auschwitz
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Sinti notableHistoricalEvent deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day liberationCommemorated Auschwitz concentration camp
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day liberationCommemorated Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp
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LiberationOfAuschwitz tookPlaceAt Auschwitz concentration camp
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LiberationOfAuschwitz tookPlaceAt Auschwitz II-Birkenau
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LiberationOfAuschwitz tookPlaceAt Oświęcim
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LiberationOfAuschwitz hasMemorialSite Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
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Lesser Poland Voivodeship containsUNESCOWorldHeritageSite Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp
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Lesser Poland Voivodeship containsWorldWarIIHeritageSite Auschwitz concentration camp
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Lesser Poland Voivodeship containsWorldWarIIHeritageSite Birkenau extermination camp
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Zyklon B usedIn Auschwitz concentration camp
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Primo Levi placeOfDetention Auschwitz concentration camp
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Elie Wiesel imprisonedIn Auschwitz concentration camp
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Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz concentration camp
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Porajmos notableSite Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Porajmos notableSite Auschwitz "Gypsy family camp" (BIIe)
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Primo Levi wroteAbout Auschwitz concentration camp
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If This Is a Man mainSubject Auschwitz concentration camp
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If This Is a Man setting Auschwitz concentration camp
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The Periodic Table setting Auschwitz concentration camp
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Final Solution exterminationCamp Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Soviet 60th Army liberated Auschwitz I main camp
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Soviet 60th Army liberated Auschwitz II-Birkenau
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Auschwitz III-Monowitz partOf Auschwitz concentration camp complex
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Auschwitz III-Monowitz subcampOf Auschwitz I
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Auschwitz III-Monowitz subcampOf Auschwitz II-Birkenau
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German occupation of Poland usedFacility Auschwitz concentration camp
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Lesser Poland contains Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
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Auschwitz death marches location Auschwitz concentration camp
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Auschwitz death marches location Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Rudolf Höss placeOfDeath Auschwitz
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Rudolf Höss placeOfExecution Auschwitz concentration camp
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Rudolf Höss commanded Auschwitz II-Birkenau
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Josef Mengele employer Auschwitz concentration camp
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Josef Mengele workLocation Auschwitz concentration camp
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Kraków Ghetto deportationDestination Auschwitz concentration camp
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Night mainSubject Auschwitz concentration camp
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Night settingLocation Auschwitz
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Oświęcim germanName Auschwitz
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