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AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAUThe German Nazi
death camp of Auschwitz-
Birkenau, known in SS terminology
as Konzentrationslag
er Auschwitz, is the most notorious place of genocide
in history and world's biggest
collective grave.
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU During World War II, between 1940 and
1945 the Nazis murdered more than one milion people in the camp: Jews, Poles, Gypsies, Soviet P.O.W's and other nationalities. Initially, Poles were sent,
to Auschwitz, where many of them found their death.Then citizens of other
countries of Nazi-occupied Europe became the victims of Auschwitz. The camp was considerably expanded to
become the main site of the Holocaust, where European Jews were put to an
instant death. Jews accounted for 90 per cent of all victims in KL Auschwitz.
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAUIn 1947 the Polish Parliament decided '' to forever preserve the area and facilities
of the former camp as a place of international martyrdom.'' The State
Museum was founded, which now covers an area of some 200 hectares, 150 buildings and
ruins of 300 buildings. These include gas chambers and crematoria destroyed by the
SS in an attempt to remove the traces of their crimes in the face of the approaching Red
Army. The museum's collection includes thousands of objects left behind by the victims as well as tens of thousands of Nazi documents, photographs written testimonies, accounts and memoirs of
former inmates, all of which are a reminder of the horrible history of KL Auschwitz.
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU - Nazi death camp
In memory of countless victims of Nazi genocide: Jews, Poles, Russians, Gypsies and other
nationals who suffered and died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in the 1940-1945 period.
Main gate with the slogan: „Work makes you free”.
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Double electrified barbed wire lines surrounded the camp.
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The yard of Block 11 with the execution wall.
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Crematorium I and gas chamber.
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Inside the gas chamber where people were gassed with Cyclon B.
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Barracks where prisoners qarters were.
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Inside barracks with three-level bunk bed.
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Watch-towers.
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AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAUInfluence of WW2 on Our Families
eTwinning project
Oliwia Rz. class 6cSzkoła Podstawowa nr 9im. Mikołaja Kopernika
Dzierżoniów, PolandOctober 2009