Category: Auschwitz - Birkenau Concentration Camp

Categories: Holocaust Era Concentration Camps

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This category groups the victim and prisoner categories for the Auschwitz - Birkenau Concentration Camp

Auschwitz is the name of a complex of over 40 concentration, labor, prison, and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland. The main camps were:

  • Auschwitz I - the main camp and administrative headquarters in Oświęcim
  • Auschwitz II–Birkenau - a combined concentration and extermination camp in Brzezinka (this is where 90% of Auschwitz victims died)
  • Auschwitz III–Monowitz - a labor camp to staff a synthetic-rubber factory

Approximately 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz, of whom at least 1.1 million died.

See: the free-space page for Auschwitz.

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Golleschau Concentration Camp (Auschwitz subcamp) (2, 1, 0)

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