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Auschwitz

Auschwitz

Alternative Names
Konzentrationslager (KL) Auschwitz, Oświęcim
Type
Concentration camp; Extermination camp

Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi concentration- and extermination camps. The concentration camp complex consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp or Stammlager, Auschwitz II or Auschwitz-Birkenau, a concentration- and extermination camp, Auschwitz III-Monowitz, the IG-Farben camp and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution. Over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives in Auschwitz.

Source:

http://auschwitz.org/en/. Accessed 3 June 2021.